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Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:43 pm
Thank you, .mad, for posting this. As before, this has been a tremendous help to me sorting these roms out. A couple questions, though. Your batch file went great, except that twice it asked if I wanted to overwrite a couple games, so I just clicked Y, and then it continued on. When I verify the games now in gamebase, it says missing 10/1120. Is that how it should be? Also, as I had stated in an earlier post, my goodset 3.00 consisted of entirely .32x and .gen files, so those are what I have zipped up individually. Will those .gen roms play okay, or are they going to be a problem? Are the .gen roms what the goodset should be, or should they be .bin or .smd, or doesn't it matter?
Also, I almost just had a small stroke. After I verified the roms in gamebase, I started to scroll through the games, to see some of the screenshots, when suddenly, as I was scrolling up, everything froze. For several minutes, my computer wouldn't do anything. This happened to me a few months back as I was setting up another gamebase, but I don't remember now which one. That time, I used the task manager to end the gamebase, which worked, but then when I tried to restart gamebase, it was all corrupted, and just threw an error at me. I don't remember how I fixed it, but I think I had to delete the gamebase entry in the registry, and then when I restarted gamebase, it recreated a new registry entry, and it ran okay. It hasn't happened again since then, up until just now. This time, I left the computer alone, and after a few minutes, it worked itself out, and the gamebase seems okay now.
Any ideas what might have happened? It happens as I scroll quickly upwards, after I scroll down through the games. Has that ever happened to anybody else here?
Thanks again for posting the fixes, .mad, and thanks, SexyWayne, for the original post. I'm very glad to have a nice Megadrive Gamebase now.