GameLauncher is a Game ROM Managment Tool designed to make emulating games easier than playing them on a console! Windows 2.0 Beta releases now available!!
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GameLauncher 2.0 Beta now features a redesigned User Interface! Also, library filename generation bugs have been fixed and new automatic engines/extensions discovery system has been put into use that uses tags within engine.xml files to build a supported extensions list.
-Altered XMLEngine so that it will import settings from older files -Added simple plugin managment panel -Fixed several engine related bugs -Fixed initial setup wizard -Fixed argument handling -Changed all dialogs to JDialog's to reduce clutter -Added MD5 file verification -Added help viewer -Added GB, GBC, and GBA engines to the default Win32 engine set -Added external library option -Fixed game path calculation -Finish Game Specific Arguments option -Added debug panel to game editor -Renamed menu options -Fixed bad image paths in documentation -Added online update option -Changed import/export operations to new lightning fast file copy logic -Added internal IPS patcher -Fixed Skin Managment, list is now automatically filled -Library ROM filenames are now automaticlly generated -Fixed import logic -Added usage data reset button -Added play timer -Fixed menus -Failed settings are now logged -Supported Extensions are now automaticly discovered in engine xml files -Redesigned Main GUI -Safer Filename Generation
GameLauncher 2.0 Beta has been updated! The new filename generation logic now works (Ooops!), and the table menu has been fixed. Amoung the new features are a Usage Data Reset button on the Advanced panel of the game editor, as well as a play timer that records the total number of Hours, Minutes, and Seconds a game has been played!
GameLauncher 2.0 Beta has been updated with a new built-in IPS ROM patcher complete with rollback support, new lightning fast import/export logic, and automatically generated ROM filenames. As the filename generation has changed and is now dependant on numbering, it is recommended that users export all of their ROMs, reset their Game Database, and re-import their ROMs to avoid file overwritting on import. Also, the patcher limits one patch per ROM to avoid ROM breakages which are almost always caused by multiple patches.
GameLauncher 2.0 has been updated! Along with several other fixes, a new option has been added to the Initial Setup Wizard which allows users to select a custom location for the game library (Useful for windows users with limited profile space). Also, an online update option has been added to the Update Center, although no online updates will be released prior to the final 2.0 version. The 2.0 development release now available as well.
-Altered XMLEngine so that it will import settings from older files -Added simple plugin managment panel -Fixed several engine related bugs -Fixed initial setup wizard -Fixed argument handling -Changed all dialogs to JDialog's to reduce clutter -Added MD5 file verification -Added help viewer -Added external library option -Fixed game path calculation -Finish Game Specific Arguments option -Added debug panel to game editor -Renamed menu options -Fixed bad image paths in documentation -Added online update option
After a long... long... wait, GameLauncher 2.0 Beta is finally here! :D Contrary to the last news post, we were able to get GameLauncher to import the settings and database from any one of the old versions by simply ignoring any attributes that don't exist! Doh! Talk about an easy solution that was staring us in the face the whole time! Anyway, this release is running in development mode, meaning it's home folder will be named "gamelauncher-devel" instead of "gamelauncher". That way, it can coexist with future "stable" releases, as well as any v1.9 installs that anybody wants to keep seperate. A Windows installer and development release of this version will hopefully follow shortly. Also, we will be releasing an automated tool for renaming the "gamelauncher-devel" home folders to "gamelauncher" for lazy people!
After much consideration, it has been decided that GameLauncher 2.0 will be unable to import the Game Library and Settings from previous GameLauncher versions. As such, users of previous versions will be required to "Export" each game in their library prior to upgrading to 2.0. More detailed instructions will be listed following the pending GameLauncher 2.0 Stable release. Future releases will import settings relative to GameLauncher 2.0's feature set, the rest will be reset to their default values.
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