Zsnes, Visual Rom Listing?

toxee · Post by **toxee** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:13 pm

I'm fine with the current UI, but I have been wondering if there could be a way to have a visual listing of all my roms. Like instead of a text list, I could have an actual screenshot or boxshot of the game, kinda like Picasa except with all my roms. Is there any options or maybe some frontends for zsnes that might let me do something like this?

Post by **Agozer** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:00 pm

Implementing something like would be moderately hard until the GUI code has been ported to C. There are some universal frontends that support preview shots.

I can't name any from the top of my head, but check http://www.zophar.net

kieran_ · Post by **kieran_** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:28 pm

Check out the frontends at Zophar. there are a few for Zsnes. I used one called ZFE something or other, but it kept on crashinf on me. It does what you asked, though.

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:38 pm

Yes, A frontend would be your best bet for something like that.

This was discussed before and one thing that was brought up aside fromt eh difficulty if implementation was the increase in size of ZSNES. If ZSNES were to catalog every game and even worse, have a screenshot etc.., the size would increase signifcantly.

At this point, there is no chance of such a feature making it in. If you have a bit of programming skills, you could make a better frontend to do something like this. That would be easier than modifying ZSNES.

toxee · Post by **toxee** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:09 pm

Thanks for the replies guys, I'm gonna check out that frontend you mentioned Kieran.

Nightcrawler, I see what you mean, I was never implying the screen and boxshots come from zsnes's end. If people can get their own roms I don't see how pics would be any different.

Post by **badinsults** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:51 am

ZFE is a pretty nice frontend. I have used it myself.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 1:10 am

Hasn't StatMat also contributed some to ZSNES?

Post by **grinvader** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:58 pm

Noxious Ninja wrote:Hasn't StatMat also contributed some to ZSNES?

There are several instances of 'FIX STATMAT' in the source.

Malcster · Post by **Malcster** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 2:33 pm

toxee wrote:Nightcrawler, I see what you mean, I was never implying the screen and boxshots come from zsnes's end. If people can get their own roms I don't see how pics would be any different.

Yeah, could work just like FBA or MAME32 - a "snaps" folder in the save file folder or something, and maybe the shots could be named "<crc32><other misc comments that zsnes ignores>.png" to be detected easily. Possibly there could be packs of screenshots available. This would be neat as a thing to bear in mind for the new GUI.

Cebu · Post by **Cebu** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:20 am

Another option might be to display the preview image for the most recent savestate for a game. While it wouldn't help to get an idea of things that you've never seen, it would give a visual indicator for things that you've looked at before and wouldn't require having anything distributed with zsnes.