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Here again some great WIP news!

Also we make emuControlCenter 0.9.8 STABLE fit for RELEASE the next days!

This is maybe your last chance to add your found bugs to the forum before release. Also it´s time to add missing fileextensions or emulator settings! See you in the emuControlCenter forum.

With the help of the members of the
“English Amiga Board” emuControlCenter have now an eccScript support for the Commodore Amiga emulator WINUAE individualy for each game! Also the Amiga winuae script has been improved, to give better support for amiga games using the MULTI lines in the eccScriptRom file, Thanks to TheCyberDruid!

changelog for emuControlCenter 0.9.8 WIP 05

WIP 05
- added czech for language selection
- added dump type dropdown in meta edit
- catch exception, if shortcut for file selector is set already.
- not using the eccScript tool anymore, now using autoit3 directly.

WIP 04
- fixed typo in multiplayer dropdown
- Added more fields to meta compare/merge function
-- Programmer, Graphics, Musican, Media Type, Region, Storage, USK
- fixed yes|no translations for meta options (rom detail area)
- New CELL_I and NAV_I images so you can also see, that a rom is not available if the rom have images
- Reorganized the MEDIA images, now also placed in the platform folder
- Added a tools for ECC Startup to use GD2 instead of Imagemagick
- Fixed unpack problem, if rom is in a zip-subfolder!
- added image download from romdb image-server (rom context menu)
- emulator config
-- implemented "use .cue file" for isos
-- if 8.3, escape path is autodisabled
- zip/7-zip unpack now only unpack, if emulator is available!
- added icon images for messageboxes
- reduced the size of system output in fileext_problem popup
- removed error output if no eccscript available in metaedit popup
- fixed region dropdown in german translation
- added local version script
- fixed metainfo area drowdowns and add translations for values
- replaced "change languages" by language string free image.
- organized rom context "meta edit" in submenu
- create idt folder, if not available
- added an new multi section to the eccScriptRom.dat
-- automatic detect multifile sequences from filename
-- detected syntax "filename (3/9).ext", "filename (Disc 3of9).ext", "filename-3.ext", "filename-A.ext"
-- automaticly create MULIT_ROM_FILE_N commandline paramenters, if file is available (case sensitive)
-- up to range (e.g. 15 if 4of15), if no range is set, up to 26 or aA-zZ (eg filename-a form -a to -z)
--- MULTI_ROM_FILE_1 = "monke1-1.adf"
--- MULTI_ROM_FILE_2 = "monke1-2.adf"
--- MULTI_ROM_FILE_1 = "test(!)(1/2)(Spanish).adf"
--- MULTI_ROM_FILE_2 = "test(!)(2/2)(Spanish).adf"
--- MULTI_ROM_FILE_1 = "test(Disk A)(German).adf"
--- MULTI_ROM_FILE_2 = "test(Disk B)(Spanish).adf"
- implemented new parameters for the commandline of emulators
-- you can add ALL these to the commandline in this syntax
--- %KEY% e.g. %META_NAME% %FILE_ROM_CRC32% %AUDIT_ROM_OF%

WIP 03
- implemented 7zip packed file parsing
- implemented 7zip auto unpack
- fixed wrong zip/7zip filename in file info
- fixed wrong filename output in detail list for zip/7zip
- fixed little bug in ecc-script
- silence missing index in mame import
- Bugfix in 'cWebServices.php'
- 7-zip parsing fix
- RomDB fix

WIP 02
- new advanced eccScript system...
-- eccscripts can now found in the ecc-script folder organized by systems
-- new eccScriptRom.dat contains all needed informations from
--- file (name, path, size, extension aso.)
--- meta (name, media type/current/count, player, info id and string)
--- audit (all available informations from CM dat like name, clone_of, rom_of, set type)
--- emulator (all settings you have made in ecc configuration)
--- ecc (platform name, category, supported extensions)
-- These informations can be used direct in the eccscripts!
- implemented new emulator template / rom overwrite for eccscript in metaEdit popup
-- Used to give eccScript emulator specific config values
-- Rom stores the diff into the ecc-script user folder.
- metaEdit - implemented new File information tab.
- fixed sorting bug in rom lists
- optimized quick filter for roms without meta data
- implemented search for rom meta in romdb and google
- Media count now also shown on rom details panel
- Removing roms from db now also show fileextension in filename
- now also left mouse click in empty romlist open "add rom context"
- refactoring of the rom file, meta and audit data.
- Updated some i18n strings
- added image slot "ingame_loading" e.g. for 8bit loading screens
- now info_string and id also are added to romdb
- moved emuControlCenter gui translations to translations/ folder
- replaced old inline help with default readme.txt
- added mechanism to show different images in confirm and info popups (see add bookmark)
- many optimizations, cleanup, refactoring!
- fixed tooltip warnings
- fixed wrong dropdown selections!

WIP 01
- fixed checksums for atari lynx roms. header now removed from crc32 calculation

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