RoM-Jacket

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Current version: ßv0.99 "bluto"
Active: ?
OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1
Authors:
Official website: http://tinyurl.com/romjacket
Source code: Open source

RoM-Jacket creates a native Windows™ (batch-script) library-layer for retro-emulation. It is a comprehensive utility for any ROM library and is the ONLY ROM-library management tool which enables independent per-game settings.

What do I need this for?

RoM-Jacket can automatically setup HTPC frontends, emulators and joysticks.

The goal of this project is to unify the interface for emulators and systems in order to maintain the integrity of ROM titles as they exist in any active HTPC gaming-library.

What else can it do?

  • Download torrents, magnets, urls and automatically identify, extract and catalog ROMs and BIOS files
  • Mirror your saves and save-states into a cloud (Dropbox/GDrive/OneDrive)
  • Convert ROMs into portable executables

How does it work?

Each ROM is grouped with associated assets inside a Jacket (folder). A batch-script launcher (.bat) and configuration files are then created for each ROM. The result is a library in which titles are highly portable, self-contained, execuatble by Windows™ itself and and easily integrated into any HTPC gaming frontend.

But, why?

Because HTPC frontends typically match separated assets by name and ROM sets use a global emulator-configuration file, 2 significant problems often arise:

Changes made to an emulator's settings for one ROM affect all other ROMs which use it. The source of assets and ROMs are arranged and named uniquely from ROM to content to emulator to frontend.

RoM-Jacket solves these problems. Assets remain with the jacket so that each ROM looks the same in any frontend and plays the same, every time.


FEATURES

  • 80+ supported consoles, computers and arcade machines
  • 50+ emulators
  • 8 HTPC frontends
  • Full-HD backgrounds, high quality photographic icons and banners for all supported systems.
  • Simple wizards
  • Drag'n drop ROM sorting
  • Intelligent BIOS & ROM cataloging
  • Torrent, magnet and URL support
  • CLI for custom emulators
  • Open-source and free
  • XBox 360 & DS3/4 joystick support
  • Artwork migration tools

SUPPORTED HTPC FRONTENDS

  • OblyTile
  • Hyperspin
  • Cabrio-FE
  • Steam
  • Media Browser 2.6.2
  • Advanced Launcher
  • emulationStation
  • Rom Collection Browser

SUPPORTED SYSTEMS

  • Nintendo 64
  • Atari 2600
  • Atari 5200
  • Atari 7800
  • Atari Jaguar/CD
  • Flash Games
  • Nintendo Wii
  • Nintendo Game Cube
  • Nintendo N.E.S
  • Panasonic 3DO
  • NEC PC-FX
  • Sega Genesis/CD/32X
  • Sega Pico
  • Sega Master System
  • Commodore Amiga CD32/TV
  • Sega Dreamcast
  • Sega Saturn
  • Sony Playstation
  • Sony Playstation 2
  • Super Nintendo
  • TurboGrafx 16/CD
  • Supergrafx
  • Vectrex
  • Windows Games
  • ColecoVision
  • Mattel Intellivision
  • Emerson Arcadia 2001
  • MAME
  • CPS (Capcom Play Systems)
  • NeoGeo/CD
  • Sega Model 2
  • Sega Model 3
  • Sega Naomi
  • Sammy Atomiswave
  • Taito Type X2
  • Apple IIe/c
  • Atari ST
  • Atari 800
  • Atari 8-Bit
  • Acorn BBC
  • Acorn Electron
  • FM Towns
  • Commodore 64
  • Sinclair ZX Spectrum
  • MSX
  • Sam Coupe
  • Commodore Amiga
  • Amstrad CPC
  • X68000
  • Sharp X1
  • NEC PC 98
  • Fujitsu (FM-7)
  • Neo Pocket/Color
  • Sony PSP
  • Atari Lynx
  • Wonder Swan/Color
  • Sega Game Gear
  • Nintendo DS
  • Gameboy/Color/Super
  • Gameboy Advance
  • Virtual Boy
  • 60+ more via MESS