FRI Version 1.7.0.0

Every so often I will want FRI to be able to something, and then I realize, "Hey!  I’m the one who writes it!"  This time I had a problem to solve.  I just got a new laptop for college, and I wanted to have some ROMs on it.  The problem is that I have hundreds of gigs of ROMs, and only would want to play a few on the laptop.  The first solution would be to simply put the ROMs on a network share and have FRI look there for the ROMs, but then I wouldn’t be able to play the ROMs on the road.  A feature to be able to copy a ROM from one library to another (desktop to laptop) is exactly what I needed, so that’s what I wrote!

Download FRI version 1.7.0.0 here

Here you can see that I have two libraries added.  The "Desktop" library is over a network share, and the "Laptop" library is just in my local home folder.

Now if I do a search to find "Super Mario RPG", I could double-click on one, which would open SNES 9X (which is my SNES emulator of choice) and the ROM would be pulled from my desktop computer.  If I tried this away from the network, I would get an error message saying that the ROM file couldn’t be found.  This is why I want to get a local copy of the ROM file.  Doing this is simple with this version of FRI, and how I set up the library folders above.  I simply right-click on the ROM that I want, click "Copy to…" and select "Library: Laptop Library".

Now if I click the search button again I see that the ROM has been copied over and added to FRI.

Change log:

• Library folders can now be named.
• A ROM, or group of ROMs can now be copied or moved to a different library or the desktop.  The folder structure is preserved.  For example:
  • A ROM is in the "Source Library" library.  The location of the library is "C:\SourceLib\", and the location of the ROM is "C:\SourceLib\A folder\rom.zip"
  • There is another library, "Target Library", which is located in "C:\TargetLib\"
  • If the ROM is copied to the "Target Library", it will be copied to "C:\TargetLib\A folder\rom.zip"

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Emulation, FRI, ROMs
9 August 2008 comments [3] TrackBack-URI

1. Kyle posted on August 10, 2008:

   the link to download the new fri just bring up a new tab with a picture in it. or is it just firefox? love the program only one i could get to work lol and it’s great!

2. Mavtak posted on August 10, 2008:

   Whoops! I don’t know how that happened, but the link is fixed now. Thanks for the heads-up.

3. AchieBreakie posted on August 11, 2008:

   Heart you.

   Your program is Fantastic.

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