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Hi All,
After some time of rest and vacation(s) we are busy with ECC again, this time we have implemented a feature to store and view your manuals/guides/maps/walkthroughs and other files in ECC for each game.
Since ECC opens a folder with the documents inside, it doens’t matter wich extension you use, for example, you can use PDF/DOC/TXT files without any problems, we hope you like this new feature!

We are currently also refactoring/updating and improving the ECC installer with new skins and ‘direct download’ options to install even more skins/themes/thirdparty addons to your ECC installation, stay tuned…

DOWNLOAD ECC 0.9.9 WIP01 [HERE] (developement section)

changelog for emuControlCenter 0.9.9 WIP 01
- added "open asset folder"
-- used to store 'manual', 'guides' and 'maps' to the ecc-user folder
-- implemented availablity state in meta info area

Here again some great news about ECC updates and user input!, some points:

1) Theme Creation (create your own theme) - By Cyrille.
Always wanted to have your own created theme in ECC?, now it’s your change!, our theme manager Cyrille has created and updated a nice TEMPLATE theme for you to create your own ECC theme, you can download this [HERE]

2) Theme updates - By Cyrille.
Cyrille has made a second update for the ECC themes which included many improvements and fixes, you can download this [HERE]

3) PC-Engine imagepack - By Lordashram.
Lordashram has created and updated the PC-Engine imagepack and has stored lots of PC-Engine meta-data in the ECC romDB, the imagepack now includes 976 ingame title images & 976 ingame play images, also all these images are uploaded to the ECC imageDB, you can download this imagepack [HERE]

4) NEW platform: Visual Pinball.
We have added a new platform to play and manage you favorite pinball games with Visual Pinball.

5) Register OCX at startup.
In the last updates there ECC startup will register the OCX files for you (for the tools), so also people using the RAR pack, will have the OCX files automaticly register once at first startup of ECC.

6) Xpadder ADDON.
In the last updates there is the ability to startup Xpadder when ECC starts, Xpadder is a progam that emulates the keyboard through your joypad, this way you can control ECC with your joypad, and also play games & emulators which do not have/support joypad control!

7) Some small updates & fixes for ECC.
- Improved the multifile handler for the eccscriptrom DAT.
- Removed extensions
- DOSBox: iso, cso, nrg, mdf
- Improved the Amiga script to handle LONG filenames again.
- Returned the amiga 8.3 setting to 0 again.
- Updated the French language for 0.9.8
- Renamed ‘Nintendo Entertainment System’ to ‘Nintendo NES/Famicom’.
- Renamed ‘Nintendo Famicom/FDS’ to ‘Nintendo FDS’.
- Renamed eccid ‘famicom’ to ‘fds’.
- Fixed a bug where FDS parser did not work properly (nes eccid).

8 ) ECC Live! fixes & improvements.
Some ECC Live! fixes and improvements have been released wich makes ECC Live! more stable and adding more features into it:
- Added driveletter detection.
- Added free space detection.
- Added new update function to replace strings in files.
- Added free space checking before installing update.
- Fixed a problem where the messagebox didn’t show up in ‘kickstart mode’.
- Fixed a problem with some subroutines not working properly.
- Also where ECC did not restart in kickstart mode #2.
- Fixed the double ‘vv’ version tag in the LOG file.
- Fixed a problem where ECC did shutdown where it should not do this.

Bugfix release!
We have found some bugs in the 0.9.8 version. These will be fixed with this release. Also we added a new Platform “Elektor TV Games” into the release!

You will find the new 0.9.8b release in the DOWNLOAD SECTION!

If you want to add multifile support, you should also download this nulitfile-fix! You can copy this over your 0.9.8 or 0.9.8b installation!

Changelog:

changelog for emuControlCenter 0.9.8b
- Added platform: Elektor TV Games
- Small fixes
  - Added 'readme.txt' file in the ecc-root.
  - Updated 'Dutch' translations for 0.9.8.
  - Fixed a problem with the media_current  (media_current of media_count)
    - Now the media_current is not stored with 0 to the database!
- ECC Live! v3.1.0.7
  - Added new installer function 'execute_normal', without waiting function.
  - Added new installer function 'execute_hide', without waiting function.
  - Added new installer function 'ecclive_shutdown', wich forces ECC Live! to
    shutdown before installing next update.
  - Added new installer function to check the version of ECC Live! (to create stops)
  - Added auto-retry mode (3 times) if there is a problem writing to the TEMP folder.
  - Added DEBUG mode so the developers can test ECC Live! without using online data
  - Fixed a problem where ECC Live! updater would not start to update ECC Live!.
  - Fixed a problem with reading the local update info INI.
  - Fixed a problem where ECC Live! did not start ECC again in 'kickstart mode'.
- ECC Live! updater v1.2.0.1
  - Fixed php INI to 'php.ini' (instead of emucontrolcenter-php.ini)
  - Fixed a problem with reading the local update info INI.
- ECC Script - Commodore Amiga (winuae) v1.0.0.7
  - Adjusted the script to use new MULTI output with ZIP in eccScriptDat (TheCyberDruid)
    NOTE: It only works with the 8.3 setting enabled, so default config is
    overwritten and set with 8.3 enabled.
- Thirparty tool updates: Notepad++ v5.0.2

Read the full changelog here

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