Map File Maker

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Map File Maker

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As the name says, it's a program for creating and editing MAP files. Some of the features include:

• Quickly and easily grab your files and make working (and attractive) MAP lists for your games.
  
  • Parses lots of files really quickly!
    
  • Options to remove bracketed text, replace patterns, left and right crop, capitalize titles.
    
  • File naming options for the most frequently used DAT naming conventions!
    Naming conventions include:
    
    • No-Intro
      
    • ADVANsCEne
      
    • Good Name
      
    • TOSEC
      

  [*]Integrates GameEx's List Coloring options.

  • Enable colorization in the right-click menu (This feature is disabled by default)
    
  • Import your own region colorization themes
    
    • Easily create your own colorization schemes in Notepad using an included XML as a template!
      
    • Share your themes for others to download and add to their own setups!
      

  [*]Map File Maker uses the Software Updater Framework to search for program updates!

  • Stay ahead with the latest program version!
    
  • Enable or disable automatic update checking in the right click menu (This feature is disabled by default)
    
  • Includes an option to check now for updates for users who would rather not use automatic updating.
    

  [*]Comprehensive editing tools to make your MAP creation experience moar awesome!

  • Easily add and remove rows to your MAP file.
    
  • Hide and show columns that you want to see. Your selection is saved for next time too!
    
  • Clear columns with a single click!
    

I touched on it up there, but let me explain briefly about importing your own color schemes. There's a few already included in the install, and I'm sure most of you can figure out how it works, but here goes anyways.

Basically the XML has each naming convention's regions in it. All you need to do is give your "theme" a name and add your HTML color codes for each region. There's a spot for specifying a default background color for the cell also. You can do as many or as few as you want, depending on what you need. For example: If you only use No-Intro DATs, your XML might only contain No-Intro region info. A sample of the XML looks something like this:

<mfm_color_scheme>
  <style name="ADVANsCEne Only">
	<advanscene>
	  <australia>CC99AA</australia>
	  <china>CC9977</china>
	  <europe>66FF44</europe>
	  <france>66FF22</france>
	  <germany>FFFF55</germany>
	  <italy>6688CC</italy>
	  <japan>FFBB77</japan>
	  <korea>FFDDBB</korea>
	  <netherlands>00FFFF</netherlands>
	  <spain>CCFF00</spain>
	  <usa>33CCEE</usa>
	  <unknown>FFFFFF</unknown>
	  <background>000000</background>
	</advanscene>
  </style>
</mfm_color_Scheme>

<mfm_color_scheme></mfm_color_scheme> are the XML document root tags.

<style name="ADVANsCEne Only"> is the theme name that is displayed in the program's combobox.

<advanscene></advanscene> are the tags that determine the naming style.

<australia>CC99AA</australia> represents the region and the HTML color code to use.

They're not case sensitive.

Any questions or comments? Feel free to ask 'em. I also like feature requests.

:THANKS/SHOUTS:

Major props to Tempest for his Map File Magician, which was the inspiration for this simple program. If you're looking for something that's thick with great features, I highly recommend it.

Tom @ GameEx for a great front end. If you're reading any of this, how bout some flag code blocks? The code's already in there waiting!

Circo @ EmuMovies for hosting all my apps and having the best collection of artwork anywhere. The awesomeness of EmuMovies can't be over-stated!

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• Submitter
  Adultery
• Submitted
  04/28/2012
• Category
  Apps & Utilities
• Credits
  Adultery [at] hfc [dash] essentials [dot] com