MAME32 Screen Shot Organizer Copyright (C) Moose O'Malley, ---------------------------- July 2003. +===========================================================+ | T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S | +===========================================================+ | * Introduction (LONG) | * Why I wrote this Program / Why use this Program | * Using this Program | * Limitations / Restrictions of the program | * The Future | * Special Greetings / Thanks to | * Warranty | * Amendment History | * Contacting the Program's Author +===========================================================+ Introduction : -------------- MAME32 Screen Shot Organizer for Windows 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP, and similar operating systems. MAME32 Screen Shot Organizer is a companion utility / tool for the MAME 32 Arcade Machine Emulator : http://www.mame.net MAME32 Screen Shot Organizer simply enables you to view and drag & drop (with the mouse) screen shots so that you can arrange your screen shots for each parent game and its clones with ease. This could be useful for anyone who wants to arrange their screen shots in a certain way. e.g. show the title screen for each parent game of each set, and then show various screen shots of each game in action for the clones. To enable this functionality, you need to : 1. Specify the snap shots directory. i.e. the directory where your MAME Screen Shots reside as PNG files. These screen shots cannot be inside a ZIP file(s). i.e. they need to exist as separate PNG files in the above directory. 2. Specify the directory path and name of the DOS or Windows Command Line version of MAME. 3. Press the "Refresh Originals / Clones List" button. Once you do these three things, then you are ready to view and drag & drop the screen shots so you can reorganise the screen shots for each parent game and its clones as desired. Without this program, you would need to manually rename files using Windows Explorer or by typing commands at the DOS Command prompt. Both very slow and tedious ways to rename bunches of files. This program makes it exceptionally easy to reorganise the screen shots for each game. I hope you find this program useful. MAME32 Screen Shot Organizer is NOT an official part of the MAME project. Developed using 32-bit Delphi. Why I wrote this Program / Why use this Program : ------------------------------------------------- I wrote this program so that I could reorganise all of my MAME screen shots. I decided that I wanted to have the title screen for each game as the screen shot for each parent game, and then various screen shots in the order I liked best for each clone. After renaming some files manually using Windows Explorer, I soon grew very tired of that approach, so - as I usually do - I sat down and wrote this program. And, soon I had all of my screen shots organised as required. Using this Program : -------------------- To use this program, simply unzip it to a directory (using PKUNIP, WinZIP, or similar), run it, and click on the buttons to view / perform the activities you require. You can Drag & Drop a file or a directory onto this program using Windows Explorer. Before you can use this program, you need to : 1. Specify the snap shots directory. i.e. the directory where your MAME Screen Shots reside as PNG files. These screen shots cannot be inside a ZIP file(s). i.e. they need to exist as separate PNG files in the above directory. 2. Specify the directory path and name of the DOS or Windows Command Line version of MAME. 3. Press the "Refresh Originals / Clones List" button. Once you do these three things, then you are ready to view and drag & drop the screen shots so you can reorganise the screen shots for each parent game and its clones as desired. Simply, click on the parent game, and any screen shots for it and its clones will be displayed. Reorganising the screen shots is as simple as dragging and dropping them with your mouse. Limitations / Restrictions of the program : ------------------------------------------- None. There is no trial period and there is no "cutdown" or "restricted" functionality that requires users to register. This program is FREE software - any person and any company is welcome to copy it, use it, and distribute it as they see fit, as long as the EXEcutable and this text file remain intact. If you paid money for this program, then you were ripped off, and you should complain to the person who sold it to you !! (Don't complain to me, it's nothing to do with me !!). The Future : ------------ In the future, many improvements could be made to this program, such as : - Add a right-mouse click Popup Menu to enable you to : * Delete a screen shot, or, * Execute MAME so that you can redo a screen shot. - A version with US spelling, such as "organizer" instead of the standard English "organiser" !! ;) - Anything else ? If you would like any of these improvements, or would like to suggest more, or would like to give me some feedback on the program, please email me and let me know. Special Greetings / Thanks to : ------------------------------- Special thanks to all arcade emulator authors, people who maintain arcade emulator sites, those who dump the roms, and those who work hard to try and preserve the actual physical arcade machines, with special mention to : - Dave Spicer for developing Sparcade - the very first Arcade Emulator for PCs, which introduced me to Arcade Emulation way back in 1995. I was and still am compltely blown away by arcade emulation !! - Nicola Salmoria (for MAME and other emulators) and the fabulous MAME and various MAME 32 Development Teams. - Neil Bradley (Emu, Retrocade and others). - Antiriad and the Raine Development Team. - Dave (Final Burn). - Anders Nilsson & Janne Korpela (Neo Rage and Tutankham). - Thierry Lescot (System 16 Emulator). - Neill Corlett (MGE). - Michael Cuddy (KEM & Gyruss). - and all other arcade emulator developers - you guys rule !!! - Virtu Al, Brian Peek, MAME DK, and others - you guys rule too !!! Even though some of these emulators are no longer under development, your amazing work is NOT forgotten !! Warranty : ---------- This software and the accompanying files are provided "as is" and without warranties as to performance or merchantability or any other warranties whether expressed or implied. The user assumes the entire risk of using this software. If you do find any faults with this program, email me and let me know, and I will do my best to fix it ASAP. Amendment History : -------------------- Vers Date Description 1.0 9-July-2003 First Public Release. (61,305 lines of code / comments.) 21-July-2003 - Email Retrogames (Prophet and Griking) to announce this program. If this program was not downloaded from my Home Page, then it might be an old version. The latest version of this program is available from my WEB page - see below. For more great software, please visit my WEB page ! Mike "Moose" O'Malley ____________________________________________________ Moose's Software Valley - Established July, 1996. WEB: http://move.to/moose ____________________________________________________