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Hi All,

We have fixed some bugs in WIP 1.5/2/3, see changelog, also we added the ‘dump type’ to rom info area & eSearch.

The new installer is almost complete, you can expect an 0.9.8.R1 release soon!, stay tuned…

DOWNLOAD ECC 0.9.9 WIP03 [HERE] (developement section)

changelog for emuControlCenter 0.9.9 WIP 03
WIP 03
- fixed storage "Harddrive" bug (Dropdowns not filled)
- changed storage "Harddrive" to "Harddrive / Floppy" to
- fixed missing dump_type in romdb export
- catch crash, if copy text from internet to notes/review
- removed checksum check on save to avoid problems with rom options
- made the labels of eSearch a little bit smaller

WIP 02
- added dump type selection to eSearch
- fixed "show only first rom" bug
- Added dump type to rom info area

WIP 01.5
- Fixed problem, if you click on the top left emuControlCenter logo (open website again and again!)
- Fixed also the problem, if you open the asset/document folder and click to the main view!
- added new icon in context menu "browse documents"
- added documents "patches" folder for ips patches

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.