Features

• export: #49 - added name and comment to ini export
  • see https://forums.quickplayfrontend.com/viewtopic.php?t=1449
  • thanks to user hasseno for raising this

Mametool

• mame: Fix issues found running against Mame 0.241
  • Fix issue with softlist printing -
  • https://forums.quickplayfrontend.com/viewtopic.php?t=2652
  • thanks to user u-neeks
  • stop hardcoding Mame64 in generated Mame efind. Instead use the Mame emulator the user has selected
  • fix illegal filename chars introduced in a single emulator in Mame 0.219, causing softlist printing to exit
  • Exclude more new boring systems
  • Re-class all ZX Spectrums as Sinclair (Mame started calling some Amstrad)
• mame: rethink Mame filepaths functionlity:
  • Possibilities for Mame rompaths set by users is arbitrary, therefore convention can't be guessed by machines, instead ask the user to tell us via dropdowns where each of the four romtypes we deal with are
  • Thanks to Ulao and others for raising issues that led to this conclusion
  • fix bug with Mame filepaths checkbox/flag, also disable correct sections if filepath printing has been disabled
  • alter Mame Options form to accomodate filepaths
  • alter all Mame 'printer' forms - should never have been able to change Mame emulator at the point of printing (since this potentially invalidates a number of decisions already made in Mame Options like rompaths)
  • add call to to get rompath from Mame's settings ini, add UI elements to display to user
  • always turn mame rompaths absolute (in case use has relative rompaths)
  • logic to invalidate rompath is your mame executable or its ini file change
  • improve saving of filepath/rompath
  • trim mame.ini's rompath properly
  • make no-path printing consistent between arcade and softlist printing

Bugfixes

• romlist: relabel 'delete rom'...
  • this does not delete any files from disk, it removes item from your romdata
  • https://forums.quickplayfrontend.com/viewtopic.php?t=1452
  • thanks to user quickplayer
• romlist: prompt before clearing romlist
  • https://forums.quickplayfrontend.com/viewtopic.php?t=1452
  • thanks to jaw970 for posting this one
• open dir: fix opening Rom in explorer issue when comma part of filename,
  • properly escape filename...
  • see https://forums.quickplayfrontend.com/viewtopic.php?t=1338
  • thanks to user quickplayer for pointing this out
• qpnode: upgrade node.js version qpnode from node 10 to 14
  • This should stop windows defender flagging QPnode.exe as a potential virus
  • see https://forums.quickplayfrontend.com/viewtopic.php?t=1436#p2008
  • Thanks to Sandman1973 on the forums for raising this
• synctool: increase default time tolerance for file comparison
  • for whatever reason, often src and dest files have timestamps which differ only by ms, they are the same file

Technical Debt

• git: Add 'lib' directory to source code
  • often we don't add tons of external libs to our source, however several needs arose over time, and in this case, it makes sense
• qpnode: fix issue with pkg and native module
  • see https://github.com/vercel/pkg/issues/1319
• qpnode: enable combinatory operations to be run in sequence
  • e.g.:(scan then softlist printing in dev)
• qpnode: better usage info when invoked with no args
• qpnode: slightly improved logging
• qpnode: add linting config
• qpnode: improve readme/dev instructions
• mame: Refactor Mame options logic generally e.g.: gatekeepers for xml scan
• mame: add inputs to source code

• misc fixes for about form
• mametool fix bug when user only has one rompath in their mame.ini for all romtypes (ie: when CHDs etc are subfolders of their ROMS folder) - bug found by user sekelje
• mametool allow rompaths in mame.ini to be relative (detect relative paths, and append mame emulator path to all paths found if folder is relative) - raiseed by sekelje
• mametool fix issue discovered with Mame 220: devices do not need instances or extensions according to MAME DTD, Mametool was assuming all devices would have instances (useless without?). Remove devices without instances and additionally defensively protect use of device briefnames - bug found by sekelje
• mametool take naming of 'Acorn Computers' (MAME 220) back to 'Acorn' (QuickPlay company names try to be as simple/short as possible, if the intention was to highight a difference between well-known Acorn and another Acorn, should have renamed the other Acorn)
• romdata magician Genesis can't coexist w Genesis/32X...
• Romdata Magician GBA current system name needs bumping...
• updated repo readme

• Update retroarch efind to retroarch 1.81
• new 3ds ico

• correct version no (thanks jaw970)

• Fix internationalisation issue
• Update jap 7zip dll
• Make extract to qpdir default
• Add and update numerous efinds

• remove dev synctool config from prod
• use dats dir for synctool conf
• fix issue with synctool config enable on hostname
• small fixes to a couple of efinds
• omit mess emus from efinds (user should run mamemtool if they want all the MESS emus)

New Features

• Synctool
• You can setup a single Remote and local folder - anything under will sync: clicking on a rom will cause it to cache locally if necessary
• Directories are mirrored as well as files cached, so folder structure form source is maintained (you know what roms are from what system)
• Symlink support so that you can extend your storage/keep CD/DVD files in a different location
  
• Synctool Options - Electron UI Element which manages and talks to the new qpnode settings file
• Romdata Flip - Users can change the Local path to the Remote one and vice versa in multiple Romdatas
• UI component to Romdata Flip shows you files changed, also prompts confirmation
• Remove syncing abilities of QuickPlay Multiloader, now vastly superceeded
• Update Johnlib with various types of exe running code that have varying effects (like printing to console)
• QuickPlay calls to node to see if Synctool is Enabled before doing anything
• Waits a while after running so you can see what happened, also writes to logfile in QuickPlay's root
• Quit with ctrl+c implemented (you sometimes have to wait for the current chunk to finish)
• Copies timestamps as well as files, uses timestamps to determine equality
• Timestamp difference tolerance (configurable). I don't know why sometimes timestamps are off with copies of files not done through synctool, but they are
• Timeout for finding roots (try not to hang loading a potential rom just because we can't check if its the same file as on the server)
• Some investigation of a stream-based solution, left as an option but just too slow
• Mametool Paths
• Disabled by default, Mametool can work out paths of all files from mame.xml and print them in Romdatas
• Implemented for both Arcade and Mess Softlists (much more useful for the latter)
• We can only sync one file, but print helpful info to the log about other files which need to exist locally in order for games to run (eg: BIOS)
• Mame Options enlarged and added to
• you can select what kind of merged roms you have (it affects what the filenames would be)
• Looks up your mame.ini (or mess.ini) for your MAME Rompaths, uses conventional names to distinguish (or you can have all roms in one ROMS folder)
• Defaults to old behaviour in case of issues (printing a 'sentinel' filepath in a romdata entry so QuickPlay ignores the filepath element)
• Node/Electron
• First use of Nodejs Electron in QuickPlay to run synctool options (the hope is to extend this somewhat)
• build and binary process implemented, Delphi makes appropriate exe calls
• resolved some issues with old js packaging process, hopefully to be superceeded by the new process
• json options file implemented, creation process implemented (its a plan to avoid upgrading issues with overwriting settings)

Bugfixes

• Right-click explorer explores to file not just dir (thanks to user 'quickplayer')
• Quotes in mednafen in case of no 8:3 (also thanks to 'quickplayer')
• fixed bug with mame0.211 softlist printing (thanks to u-neeks for a fantastic bug report!)

• enable lzma2 support for 7zip files
• remove mametool logging file from release

• ensure multiloader compatibility with Daemon Tools Lite 10.10
• bugfix: fix mametool bug with ini kv files
• bugfix: fix bug where mame version would revert on success
• bugfix: get the logic right for users rescanning a new mame version
• bugfix: recheck mame extras dir when mame scan triggered
• bugfix: mametool uses its own mame.json as a gatekeeper check, not the users mame xml
• add pcsx-pgxp to efinds

• mame ini file finder
• upgrade nodejs version of mametool
• add mametool logging
• add some icons
• sundry retroarch efind alterations
• add some new retroarch emus

• update multiloader for dt 10.8
• mednafen config file name

• update file exts and systems dat for new users
• Many urls corrected in efinds by 8-Cyo
• added more of 8-cyo's major updates to efinds and system file extensions
• added major efind contribs from 8-Cyo
• minor updates to RetroArch efind
• when user runs MAMEtool, remove old and boring MAME system names that might be in the users systems.dat
• make all nes and snes loader cart media calls work
• added some hardcoded choices for softlist emulators for MAME after much manual testing
• extend loader calls to deal with MAMEname conflicts between devices
• add exception list to loader calls to cope with e.g.: Thomson systems requirements
• extend loader insertions to clone systems
• add loader-insertion calls to MAME systems i.e.: where a basic cart needs calling before a floppy game
• change relationships of MAME systems: eg: Tomson series and fm8,fm7
• remove more MAME non-game system types: e.g.: card games and calculators
• refresh MAME system types e.g.: tests prove electron is more similar to bbc than atom

• Mame softlists: other game names functionality: Mame made some mistakes:
  • mamenames for games are unique per-machine's device, not unique per machine as they should be (smb2 could be both a flop for the Jap version and a cart for the US version, so what happens when you call mame famicom smb2?)
  • mamename loading (without specifying device) does nice things like multi-disc loading. If you do specify device, no nice things
  • its hard to tell when you have a name conflice, which device will be treated as the 'default' So, to load the correct game, we look for exceptional game name conflicts between the original softlists for a system. If we find conflicts, only then do we override the mame call by specifying device
• fix some other issues found to get more games working in mame, in particular:
  • the custom calls needed for the nes_ and snes_ 'special cartridge' softlists
  • forcing up the rating of certain emulators for a system, to make sure games load easier, in particular msx1_flop, where a late Brazilian variant loads double-density disks, and msx2p, where the previous default emus required you to know Japanese to load a game
• make image fit in thumbnail media panel view...
• add back and next buttons for image viewer
• update and tweak the RetroArch efind, many additions and fixes to take up to RetroArch 1.6.9
• stop multiloader using deamon tools to mount zips (turns out it was VERY slow, often in-game, just always unzip)
• refresh mednafen efinds (add mednafen saturn)

• Joypad Support
• Re-implement joypad support (so that it works!) with Windows messaging implementation for a much more responsive joypad
• allow media panel navigation and buttons 1+ 2 cycle through media panel tabs
• stop having to keep left held for sidebar access
• allow for analog or digital pads
• fix mutiple problems with joypad logic
• button 1 expands/contracts in dir or folders view
• General
• add RetroArch Efind ini for RetroArch 167
• fix system names in Romdata Magician for system ini lists
• replace Romdata Magician Ini File Dats with larger-width versions
• fix ini files not displaying entry source urls
• get runrom working in find/search form (for non-IPS)
• update default systems list
• remove the systems list in updates folder
• UI Changes
• lose some warnings about slowdowns on older machinces
• resize forms for modern screen sizes: emu find, folder options, media panel, media panel config editor, run dialog, search form, efind forms, and generally expand forms for longer emulator names
• resize emulators and edit its pngs size
• fixed folder tree slidebar bug
• fix bug with roms panel dir size
• slight reskin inc version number
• fix bug in efind form that restricted window size
• explain dat and efind. change cmds to live flag
• fix bug with folder creation dialogs
• fix bug found in Virtual TreeView: hit column number
• fix filter bar appearance on high DPI
• fix icons on roms sidebar hanging over bottom
• fix overhanging text in filter textbox
• tweak and reorder favourites and search forms
• MAME Frontend
• Reworked Arcade Roms menu completely: new forms, actions and menu options setup for MAME backend (you're now supposed to keep returning to the Arcade menu to update and print different Romdatas)
• Replaced Mess Icons Directory setting in Appearance Options with MAME Extras locator in MAME Options
• Set and remember various other MAME options
• completing MAME Options now causes Folder Options to include a properly-filtered set of MAME Console/PC System Icons for use, massively reducing the time the MAME icon list took to appear
• MameIcons in folder options: refactor to shave a few secs off as well
• warn and provide getout if user is about to wipe existing Romdatas
• 19 MAME printer checkboxes now saving as ini settings
• old MAME options removed from menu and old MAME script removed from tools
• pass MAME exe filename so that MAME Efinds can use it, save MAME Tool's MAME filename choice in MAME options
• MAME General
• add Mame dat files to add new tab/default tab and media panel opts forms
• display the various MAME dat files in Media Panel config
• made those MAME info lookups work, in particular home computer and console lookups in the MAME history file are functional as well as arcade lookups
• Updated the MAME Efinds
• MAME now has its own section in settings ini
• MAME Tool
• add MameTool nodejs command line 64-bit binary (first attempt to move the backend away from Delphi)
• a scanning function reads and filters the MAME XML (effectively the MAME game libarary) into usable JSON, tags by version, and requests the location of your MAME Extras folder
• reads all MAME 'ini' files to better-filter MAME games and add metadata like number of players
• allow creation of subfolder collections: e.g.: split a MAME set's Romdatas by Genre folders
• users can filter games by often-excluded properties e.g.: clones
• or, users can load a MAME File Manager file into QuickPlay and filter by that
• create customised MAME Romdata sets for MAME itself or for (full) RetroArch MAME
• MAME Softlists and MAME MESS Emulators
• now user generatable, that project was incorporated into MAMEtool
• users generate their own Efind for either MAME or RetroArch MAME via a MAME scan
• a MAME scan will augment the users systems list with newly-found systems
• stop saving the old MESS Efinds in the QuickPlay file bundle
• reworked and fixed bug with Retroarch MAME embedded systems list, so that it now works
• update MAME Softlists and MAME MESS Emulators for MAME 187
• real icon directory now configured via MAME Options (prints out to Romdata.dat)
• prints its scan results together with MAMEtool's scan results
• now keeps track of the version of MAME used to generate Efind/Softlists (visible in MAME Options)
• removed the old 'tool' that moved the canned softlists to users data dir

• updated daemon tools command line for dt 10.6...we still are going to pre-mount a K:/ SCSI drive (though DT now has many other mounting possibilities), but its a LOT faster now...
• fix github lost spaces in markdown
• multithreading long-since defunct mame options
• ordered the arcade efind
• make picture on readme reappear on github
• consistent naming of atari-8bit

• updated defaults system list and default extensions for systems
• various efind tweaks to support mame-mess-retroarch
• Retroarch non-mess emus renamed to fit better with mess
• set of efinds for mess-related uis
• fixup type namings
• fixed error in updates script
• real icons set to small icons
• add folder location to softlists, you can mass-edit to get real icons
• Made an embedded systems romdata for mame-mess, "the batman" is back!
• corrected redirect, MESS now included
• readmes for the softlists
• add sourcecode for movers
• fixed welcome description of utils menu

• new systems dat in resources - even corrects some names MAME/MESS got wrong
• added new Efinds for Mame and Retroarch's Mess
• add all new automatedsoftlists for Retroarch and Mame
• added movers for the softlists
• remove Mess Magician as a tool
• updates tool executable
• retroarch.ini: fixed bug 40 - retroarch core format
• resolved char encoding issue
• included update script that conforms system/machine names
• start to write system name updates mechanism
• about box was right costrained a bit
• corrected references to forum

• Some protection against Windows changing 8:3 path defaults for devices
• fixed issue with hazemd in the modern age

• Basic solution for shortname issues in multiloader

• A bunch of changes that allow us to get rid of precompiled executables
• prepared supplementary files for a world without compiled exes
• relative path tools should now work consistently throughout
• bugfix #38 - You can't have a batch file tool with a relative path in tools.ini

• replaced react's cmd.exe with the exe from IRTriarge (virustotal doesnt false positive on it)

• added game and watch emu/frontend

• Minor tweaks to retroarch toolset
• updated retroarch efind for latest version of Retroarch
• improved RetroArch assets

• doc for retroarch after some tests

• More multiloader fixes and features (after a large change in previous release)
• allow for override of filetype in zip or mount situations (for emus that have strange requirements)
• fixed bugs with longnames in paths
• Fixed unquoted chars in loop for name find
• fixed a bug with dealing with zips
• fixed a bug where we'd loop instead of exit if we didn't find 7zip/daemon tools
• remove winmount files

• change to directly running the batch file as a tool

• correct syntax error in mutliloader

• New full Retroarch Efind (everything but MESS: that's to follow next!)
• Multiloader Cache
  • now can cache archived images locally in a temp directory
  • uses robocopy and looks for symlinks
  • checks cache before redownloading
  • checks your local copies of archives and recopy if they got interrupted/corrupted
• Multiloader functions/upgrade
  • upgraded to use daemon tools lite 10.4 - the newest and actually best! Vastly improved performance
  • you can now mount a zip in daemon tools and pass the iso to the emulator
  • we now look in archives using 7zip to find the runnable iso
  • made multiloaders for some PSP, Gamecube, NDS and Dreamcast emus (which enables us to cache those systems' games too)
  • added Saturn emulator SFF to multiloader
  • supports the non-typical command line of NullDC the Dreamcast emu
• Multiloader maintainance
  • fixed a bug where you sometimes had to click a rom twice to (multi-)load it
  • removed winmount from the multiloader (this was great but got discontinued)
  • fixed exclamation marks and ampersands in paths
  • fixed to consitently use 8:3 names or shortnames
• Efind
  • fixed bug with efind window and large displays
  • fixed issue with results screen
• added background images submitted by dar3255
• Corrected system names for some odd systems

• added messmameUI, for now, as an arcade cab
• mame script now updated for changes in Mame 0.163, incremented to v1.5
• fix bugs in mame script
• fixed bug in html file I/O

• Multiloader patched for Changes in DeamonTools v10
• Added the project's changelog
• Fixed long-standing bug with multiloader imp
• Multiloader code exposed - compiled multiloader got too annoying. Users can now change live
• Multiloader adapted for DTlite v9 major-version change
• exe from loader bat recompiled
• ini and readme for batch updated to reflect changes
• batch loader altered to allow user extraction path
• source code files live with their assets to be useful
• removed 'original homepage' link from help menu
• Reinstated manual update check in help menu

• Added new tool.ini files and support for Butterfly100's new tools files. More to do...
• Includes many fixes from the new community
• Tools sidebar now populates with all community supplied tools on first launch - Tools either launch or provide docs about their use
• Updated, cleaned up and attributed icons
• Fixed .gif not displaying
• Added ReactOS CMD command and improved support for Start and Explorer commands
• Updates to Arcade functionality
• "Rename Mame Roms" now directs users to Perl script and (extensive) online support
• Mame Icons now show parent icon if needed and if they can
• Mame languages ini setup
• Emulators.ini now instatiates on 1st run with ReactOS for PC Games (Start and Explorer)
• The first call to %EXEPATH% as a CMD param now MOVES the position of the emu call in the CMDline instead of repeating emu call
• Mame Perl script updated inc. support for 7z and fully merged sets
• Mame History process fixed and updated
• Mame Info process fixed and updated
• Mess Efind updated to 0153
• Mess Icon directory can now complement QP's own icons - added to appearance options
• Tempest's tools have been altered with hard-coded paths and help files for easy use within QP
• System Ini Files' game history dat files now set themseleves up as Game History media panel items for new users for the 29 goodsets we made them for
• Sorted resizing of GFX assets in media panel
• Multiloader now available as a TOOL,Multiloader updated,Multiloader now configured for various systems in EFinds

• 9-10-10: Attempted to dive in to a language I would normaly never touch. Main goal is to continue this wonderful program.
• Changed version to 3.9.0
• Fixed home page and forum links
• Removed update check, the way it works is, if the downloadable version is not = to the current, then suggest an upgrade. Instead of greater than. I dont know how to change that...
• 9-20-10: Added a check for ! if no language as found.
• Also added the option per folder to show only ! roms if so desired.
• 9-22-10: Fixed gif error and scroll error QP now looks for noimagefound.jpg when no image was found.
• The run rom dialog box now uses edit fields for that text that tends to wrap around, in some cases MESS, making it impossible to read.
• 9-23-10: Added a rom Height slide bar
• 10-16-10: Corrected readin maminfo and mamehistory files. ( clones now work ) (credit to tempest, member of the QP bords)

• Experimental support for using Windows System fonts.
• Updated 7-zip support. Now includes write support.
• Command-line parameters for disabling certain UI elements.
• Automatically check for updates
• Ability to launch emulators with custom Process priority
• Made changes to the Compressed file picker dialog.
• Drive Migration wizard doesnt change IPS file information
• Retain currently selected tab in Media Panel when moving ROMS
• ROM Properties Next/Back buttons dont use the filtered view of the ROM list
• Add Ability to modify more properties when using multiple ROMS

• Add support for media images/icons inside ZIP files (and ONLY zip files)
• Uncompress File Picker uncompresses all files first
• Add a ROM doesnt use the editted System File Exts
• Appearance Options Hidden by other options
• Equal amount of ROMs and Real MAME Icons causes crash
• Last System in the list is left off in Emulator Management screen
• Update DelphiZip Component
• Update VirtualTreeview Component
• Update JCL + JVCL

• Emulator finder was totally broken

New Features

• Run Random ROM thats never been played
• Power Scheme Changing when running ROM. This is both a global option and you can override on a per-emulator basis.
• Temp uncompressing folder setting. This is both a global option and you can override on a per-emulator basis.
• Ability to change whether Quickplay fully expands all folders on startup, or just first level folders, or no folders.

Bug Fixes

• Run Random fails if the ROM has no linked emulator
• Using GoodMerge mode Quickplay would scan EVERY file on folder load
• MAME Merge Scan Not working
• Main ROM listing scrolls across when clicking on long roms
• Upgrade to new version of Virtual Treeview component

• Standard- Entirely re-written media panel, totally over the top customisability too..
• Standard- Add in customisable ROM good codes for the GoodMerge support area.
• Standard- Archive contents picker for more than one ROM in archive files.
• Standard- New global wallpaper settings
• Standard- Add in ROM specific parameters
• Standard- GoodMerge right-click to set default ROM to run
• Standard- Quickplay is slow to start due to Emu Real Icons Thread - option to disable this.
• Standard- EmuFinder form looks like ass. Make it a wizard
• Standard- Directory Scrollbars not updating
• Standard- Multi-Directory Scanner, pressing the browse button and then cancelling it failed
• Standard- Deleting a folder always selects the First node.
• Standard- Scanned Filters need saving
• Standard- New Folder Button Always asks Root Node question
• Standard- MAME rename file empty
• Standard- UI Tidy up. Icons & Captions
• Standard- Menu entry for editing emulators config file.
• Standard- Move Virtual Folder results into Separate tab in sidebar.
• Standard- Emulator Management Crash on close
• Standard- Customisable Ratings
• Standard- Disable Root Node Bug
• Standard- Disabling Show Root Node removes custom icons
• Standard- ROM popup menu doesnt appear with a blank list
• Standard- Add in some weblinks to help menu
• Standard- Options screen tidy up.
• EmuFinder Data Files- Add Kega Fusion to EmuFinder Inis

• Fixed bug MAME ROM icons causing an exception. Dodgy code moment..

• Fixed integer overflow bug when trying to add a load of ROMs at once.

• Fixed bug where editing emulators after going through the firstrun wizard renamed all emulators..
• Changed default romlist colours back to 'standard' window colours. go to options and click "default" to reset these colours.
• Changed behaviour of file picker when adding in compression support. Now u just get "all formats" instead of a separate entry for zip, rar, etc..

• Fixed - Running game pauses for 4-5 seconds, caused by the hint box.. doh..
• Fixed - Zinc roms not finding proper images with filenames the same as zips.
• Fixed - Number of times played not actually working..

• fixed bug where "mame-scanned" roms wouldnt actually run.. how embarrassing..
• Fixed bug where MAME i686 would never run because quickplay was looking for the wrong configuration file.
• Fixed bug where MAME/Zinc scan would fail if you selected to use the catver file, but it didnt exist.
• Changed default commandline for new roms to add quotes.
• Run With list is now alphabetically sorted.
• Fixed MAME config file check question appeared after quickplay had minimised.. doh..

• Basic ZiNc Support. Use Emu-Finder to configure this emulator, and scan the ROMS using the ZiNc scanner, found in the Arcade ROMs menu.
• Re-instated "use QP temp directory for extraction" setting. Workaround for a bug where if you have a zipped copy of a game, and an unzipped copy in the same folder, QuickPlay will extract the zipped version over the unzipped version, and then delete it.. oops.
• Added right click menu for GoodMerge ROMs, a lot of menu entries do nothing - this is by design!
• Fixed - No tabs setting wasnt sticking
• Fixed - Run Dialog was wiping out Emulator compression settings
• Fixed - When adding new emulators, compression options werent loading
• Fixed - uncompressed games wont run in a goodmerge folder
• Fixed - Changing the default emulator in the directory mirroring options, didnt change the ROMs emulator on the next re-scan.

• Background images are now working again
• New Option to disable the tabs in the sidebar
• New option to only show ROM folders in the sidebar, no virtual folders and no ROM root node
• Bug Fixed - Pressing enter on ROM sometimes launched the wrong ROM
• Made a few small changes to try and fix the slow emulator launch performance some people are experiencing.

• Emulator properties totally rewritten, uses special variables.
• Goodmerge ROMsets now support.
• Ability to add 'Tools' to QuickPlay, instead of adding non-emulators into your emulator database.
• Compression support totally rewritten. Currently has full support for Zips and READ-ONLY support for 7z, RARs and ACE files.
• Fixed bug with Emulator management screen crashing on close.
• Options to re-arrange window layout
• New options for configuring the Thumbnail browser (which has also been replaced with a nicer looking one).
• Queries enhanced to allow "Not equals" and "does not contain" type searches.
• Backup and restore now includes the virtual searches directory.
• Ability to edit previously saved virtual folders.
• Ability to create entirely new ROMS from an IPS patch.
• Default IPS file option. Pick an IPS to be ALWAYS applied when running a ROM (except when using another IPS patch).Also reworked the IPS editor, it sucked before, and it sucks a little less now.
• Zip/Compression utilities form re-written.
• Emu-Finder Data Editor updated, you can now exit without saving changes, and now supports new emulator launch method.
• Emulators panel on main form now has 'fancy icons', also fancy icon loading has been speeded up.
• Better support for adding the same emulator twice into QuickPlay.
• And lots more that I didnt take a note of.. sorry.

• First release on SourceForge! Just the one change in this version - totally rewritten emulator management screen

• Fixed Access violation in the Emulator management screen when you clicked on a system node.
• Fixed ROM properties dialog adding in extra quotes to the rom path, thus making it invalid
• Fixed while editting a ROM on the main screen, if you finish your edit by pressing enter it would launch the ROM.

• Virtual Folders, Using the find dialog, you can save your search as a virtual folder and QuickPlay will re-execute your search anytime you want. This has the advantage of making sure your search returns the most up to date information
• Added support for NPlayers.ini
• Improved ROM properties dialog with Next and Back buttons
• new tool which can create data files from your roms custom data - this file can then be used in other folks QP, to scan in your data.
• New External Launcher program for emulators which run crappily when launched from quickplay.
• removed pointless mouse emulator thing.
• Removed the Quickplay custom message dialog. It looked crap.
• Moved the list of launchable emulators into its own tree on the main form.
• Improved the rom filtering, now you can filter by other columns.
• Loads of other changes that I cant remember.. :)

• Fixed divide by zero bug with Favourites.
• Fixed issue from Beta where new systems.dat was not being created.
• Fixed issue where emulators which didnt support commandlines were not available for linking to roms.
• Sorted out a lot of issues with editors in the virtual treeview.

• Made help file less ugly
• For Real MAME Icons, if the ROM doesnt have an icon then use the standard 'ROM' icon.
• Attempted to solve a bug where pressing Return on a ROM would launch it twice
• New Minimising code (again)
• Option to use Old minimising code, incase you have problems
• Some reports that directory lists werent sorted have hopefully been rectified
• Added in additional folders to the migration wizard. It now fixes Media + Mirrors
• Added a 'backup/restore' data tool. Now once you have QuickPlay working you can save all the settings and have them as a backup if you screw something up later!
• Improved handling of Read-Only drives.
  • QuickPlay will not try to write to read only drives
  • If you run from a read only drive, you can change settings
  • Windows Temp directory now used for extracting if you choose a drive that is ReadOnly for extracting
  • If you run from readonly media and have not configured QuickPlay , then QuickPlay will use a Temp directory allowing you to work with the program.

• Fixed issue where very large fonts would be cut off vertically.
• You can now use linebreaks in the ROM comment field without it crashing QuickPlay
• Try again to sort out the minimising problems!
• Migration wizard now changes the emulators working directory.
• added Enter shortcut to launch ROMs.
• Wont crash when invalid icons are put in the icons directory. An invalid icon is usually when a bitmap has been renamed to a .ico
• Now you can edit the name of the emulator in the EmuFinder results list
• Added ability to use the '#' character in parameter strings to indicate you don't want a space before/after the commandline
• Updated the zipmaster component and ZIP dll.
• Run ROM dialog has gone through some internal changes (and been re-ordered)
  • command-line can now be copied to clipboard by right-clicking.
  • Now you can edit the name of the emulator in the EmuFinder results list
  • Added ability to use the '#' character in parameter strings to indicate you don't want a space before/after the commandline
  • Updated the zipmaster component and ZIP dll.
  • Run ROM dialog has gone through some internal changes (and been re-ordered)
    • command-line can now be copied to clipboard by right-clicking.
    • Upgraded the commandline output for the runrom dialog
    • Added option to choose the extraction directory.

• Ability to scan inside a zip file. Now you can put all your ROMs inside one big zip file and can quickplay will scan inside the archive and store all the ROMS. Use the standard scan dialog and check the "scan inside zip files" option. Or you scan a single zip file by using the 'Add A ROM' dialog.
• A NEW Getting starting wizard.
• File Paths transfer wizard. If you move your roms on your hard drive you can update QPs data files without rescanning your roms using this wizard.
• New option to switch off QP's temp file (used for extracting ROMs before running). If turned off QP will extract into the directory which contains the original zip file. The main purpose for this is Save States - now they wont be deleted! Also if you do decide to use the QP temp dir then your save states should also remain intact!
• New Option to remember last folder and ROM on startup/shutdown.
• 2 new ROM properties - Comment and Company.
• New emulator properties to allow support for even more emulators:
  • Integrates into shell
  • Emulator requires NO rompath (emu.exe ROM) - activates suboption -> ROM name with extension.
  • MAME suboption - add -ROMPATH to end of command line.
  Updated EmuFinder data files to reflect these changes.
• Each Folder can now have its own 'visible column' settings. There are now a 'general' settings which can be over-riden in each folder.
• option to turn off hints in the ROM listing and Directory listing.
• Added new emulator icons, and made any custom folder icons slightly larger so they are more clear.
• if you right-click on the link for the homepage (in the about dialog) it copies it to the clipboard. Pointless i know..
• Now compiled in Delphi 7PE

• Made a few improvements to the Multi-Dir scanner. Now there is the option to set an emulator to a folder AND all its subfolders.
• Made changes to minimise/restore code, hopefully this will eliminate the remaining problems
• Fixed situation where if you enabled 'Mame Real Game Icons' and set an invalid path no icons would appear - now the default 'chip' returns.
• Fixed bug where if you selected multiple roms and went to ROM properties - and saved your changes, the WRONG roms would be changed!
• fixed bug where if you right click on VTdir on NO nodes causes an exception.
• Fixed Crash when using MAME scan 'All Directories'
• When using the ROM properties form in 'multiple ROMS' mode, 'blank' settings erased any custom data. Now it doesnt.
• Rewrite the Find dialog - should eliminate problems running certain roms.
• Updated support for both 'versions' of the catver.ini file. Although both versions have always worked, there were bugs in this support. These have now been fixed and both versions are now fully supported (and interchangeable!)

• MAME scan form now saves previous entered data and new option to retain users custom data with scan (slower) or just erase custom data (fast)
• Scan dialog has been altered, you now now scan multiple directories at once.
• Quickplay now stores a Clones Parent, and also you now use this Parent ROM in any Media searchs. (See tools/preferences/ and the check box in the media search panel)
• Quickplay will now remember if it closed maximised and will open maximised next time its run.
• Updated Game Type list to reflect new additions in CatVer.ini file.
• Added basic support for ePSXe the playstation emulator. (use the Emu-Finder wizard to get it working easily)
• New option to turn off the -rompath parameter for MAME. only enable this option if you have valid MAME.ini rom paths entered. If you are not sure - leave this option unchecked or your games will not run.
• Added run random game from this folder, and run random game from any folder.
• Upgraded zip.dll to latest version
• Fixed a bug where in certain situations a deleted ROM would not be deleted properly.
• Fixed a bug where users could try to create a directory with no parent directory selected - the created directory just wouldnt work!
• Fixed a bug which prevented the 'Find ROMs' dialog from launching a ROM.
• Fixed bug where if you tried to run a rom and Quickplay was maximised - quickplay then wouldnt minimise.

• Improvements to Clone support, now Real Icons work and Jump to ROM work
• Fixed a crash when IPS were added to ROMs
• Saved Column Sizes check box now working again
• Scan merged roms now allows you to scan multiple directories at the same type AND automatically parse CatVer.ini with the results
• MadExcept now working so bug reports can be mailed

• Improved Directory Mirroring, now multiple directories on your hard drive can be mirrored in one QuickPlay directory, although there is a still a speed issue when scanning thousands of files!
• Improved the Export options, now you can export to XML and Text, and the HTML output has been updated to XHTML.
• Added editors into the main ROM listing, now instead of having to solely use the ROM properties dialog you can edit a ROMs value directly in the listing.
• Experimental support for Merged MAME files. This uses MAME itself to scan directories and is SLOW!
• Directory List and Image Panel now save there sizes and revert to these sizes when QuickPlay is reloaded.

Bug Fixes

• Removed strange entry in the File menu.
• Fixed bug where clicking 'Reset Totals' in the options screen would crash QuickPlay if a ROM listing was loaded.

• Directory Multi-Scanner - you can scan multiple directories from one handy screen.
• Large update of the Emu-Finder data files, a lot of new emulators have been added
• Finally got round to creating some decent looking background images for Quickplay.
• New emulator property - enclose ROM path in speech marks, for added compatibility with emulators.
• New Emulator propery - supports command-lines, now emulators can be marked as explicitly supporting command lines, or not - in which case Quickplay will try to filter out these emulators when you try to run a ROM.
• New Emulator property - Homepage, which obviously allows you to visit the emulator homepage (homepages have been added to the Emu-Finder data files so they can be automatically set up for supported emulators)
• Added Year property for ROMS.
• Emulator management dialog completely rewritten.
• Favourites dialog has been rewritten, and you can now have as many favourites as you want.
• MAME game renamer rewritten and is faster and now includes year information too for every MAME ROM
• Changes to the directory tree. It's now a virtual treeview (so its faster) and it has a new 'branch', emulators, which lists all available emulators (filtered by system) so you can just run an emulator without any special parameters - which makes it suitable for emulators which dont support command lines.
• The ROM filter now includes any ROM which has the search criteria in it. If you want the functionality of the old filter style, simply click on the rom listing and start typing - yes incremental search is back!
• Moved the options around (again), and I think I'm finally happy with where things are!
• Mass file zipper now has configurable levels of compression.
• Toolbars can now be hidden.
• The 'Other Media Found' box will not appear if no other media has been found.
• Quickplay has gone virtual - Mike Lischke's excellent Virtual Treeview component is used extensively throughout Quickplay.
• Tweaked lots of code for speed increases and lower memory utilisation
• Update following Delphi Components - TZipMaster (1.72) and VirtualTreeview(3.8.3)
• Removed HTML Links panel (pointless feature) - no longer requires THTMlist box to compile.
• Removed TDADirScan Component. Replaced TdfsBrowseDirectory component with the JVCL equivalent..
• Improved error handling by using MADexcept.

• Added in options to include Emulator Version number on ROM listings
• Added in option to use a larger (32x32) ROM list icon.

Bug Fixs

• fixed a few problems with commandline preview in run rom dialog box.
• Fix for the zip files code, it always put zipped files to c:\, now it will put them in the proper place!
• various code changes to better manage memory for Real Icons, hopefully eliminating a lot of 'out of memory' problems. Also fixed an issue with the sorting algorithms and icons.
• QuickPlay wasnt generating its default language and game type files, this is now fixed

• Added in Experimental Real Game Icons support.

Bug fixes

• Fixed problem where emulators which don't support ZIP files get passed ZIP files instead of extracted files!
• Fixed issue where if folder monitoring was set up, and then emulator name was changed the folder mirroring would lose its emulator.

• Fixs problem where emulator gets sent the wrong 'Working Directory' variable.

• Changed emulator launching process, it 'seems' to run the emulator faster, although this needs verified!
• Added in Directory Mirroring facility. Basically you set up a folder to mirror a directory and then click the 'rescan' button and Quickplay will automatically make sure its data and the actually folder match.
• IPS patcher now built in. Thanks to my brother Dan for the code. (don't ask what an IPS is, I haven't a clue..)
• You can now search for ROMs by filename and ROM name.
• Added in custom message box, which provides more options for feedback to users

Other Fixes

• Fixed the tab order on every form! Yes it was extremely dull..
• Fixed a situation where an emulator doesn't support ZIP files but the ROM isn't zipped and wont launch.
• Fixed the code for saving information about columns, previously it didn't take into account all columns
• Fixed sorting routines, they now completely work.
• Improved the Emu-Finder Edit data files screen, its much easier to use now.
• Added in options to configure media searches further than before.
• General code cleanup - updated TThemeManager, TVirtualTree and GraphicsEX libraries.

• Added in GIF support for images
• added in Rom Filtering - by means of text box at top of ROM listing
• Removal of the all-powerful QPRoutines.pas file, replaced with more object-orientated design.
• fixed problem where last ROM doesn't appear
• Fixed some issues where .ZIP is different from .zip
• updated Tree view and Theme manager to newest versions.
• removed ABFOneInstance component.
• removed RXSplit component. now using TSplitter.
• Various other bug fixes.

• Mouse can now be controlled via a game pad, although I *think* the game pad has to be a DirectX compatible device. -thanks to Jon for his request
• Zip Renamer has been upgraded to allow you to rename the file inside to match the zip file name - Thanks to Donny for this request.
• Bug where the media panel sometimes didn't display the image found has been fixed. - Thanks to Don for this bug alert

• Toolbars and Menu bars now use 'MS Office' style
• QuickPlay can now Check for Updates online
• Folder Option Screen added
• Error messages can be emailed to developer (requires default mail client)
• Media Panel now added. Images can be loaded in image viewer which other media can be run in the default viewer for that system
• Columns in the ROM listing can be turned on and off
• Game types are now in a list for easy selection
• Rom Properties is now located in its own form, rather than silly panel at the bottom of the screen
• Rom Properties have been upgraded and are now incompatible with older QP records
• Emulator records have been upgraded and are now incompatible with older QP records
• EmuFinder DAT files have been changed to INI files and a new editor has been added
• Emu-Finder has had an overhaul and is easier to use
• Run ROM function is rewritten and less flaky
• Run ROM dialog now added.
• Scan ROMs can now set a default language and rating for each ROM
• Themes have been removed - they were pants anyway
• Rename a ROM on disk and all save states etc are renamed too.
• Source code tidied up and a few small bugs fixed.

• Added in a Mass Zip verifier tool. Now you can scan a huge set of zip files to see if they are 'valid'
• Tried AGAIN to fix the directory tree problem. I think its fixed now!
• Tidied up the emu-wizard dialog.
• Removed the TAboutBox component, and created a smaller about box. Subsequently you don't need the TAboutBox component to compile.

• Fixed a problem with the emutree icons where it would sometimes display a weird icon!
• Added in proper zip messages.
• TRIED to fix a problem with the directory tree where a directory appears and it shouldn't be there!
• Fixed a problem where the default theme might not load at startup.

• Fixed a problem with the win32 Emulator option being lost in emulation sort.
• Fixed a problem with some of the column sizes being lost when they were supposed to be saved

• Fixed some Window Minimising problems, and added option to disable Minimising the program when running a ROM.
• Added in a Mass File Zipper and Unzipper. Also a zip file renaming tool.
• Added saving of column positions
• Added in more sorting routines so you can sort ROMs by the main columns
• Added in a lot of error checking routines, QP now checks dat files exist, registry data exists and an error log is now output IF an error does occur.
• Option for emulators to use win32 long file names when launching ROMs.
• Now takes advantage of the Windows XP theme support
• Emulation links panel, which contains links to popular emulation sites
• Full resize options for the main form now incorporated
• Fixed a 100% CPU usage bug... apparently this has been around for a while, but I never noticed it before!
• A lot of the code has been written, and tidied up.
• Massive increase in speed when renaming MAME ROMs
• Now supports the CatVer.ini file to find MAME game types.
• HUGE update on the EmuFinder data files. Nearly every emulator on Zophars Domain is supported.
• EmuTree-Icons are now supported, thanks to SlitherX for this suggestion
• Basic Theme support. You can now alter nearly every aspect of the main form.

• Multiple Sub-directories now supported, with Drag and Drop between different directories, now you can quickly move your ROMs!
• Drag and Drop between folders AND drag files from Explorer into QuickPlay and they can be added to your database.
• Massively increased ROM list speed - we're talking off the scale here!!
• Deleting emulators will now check to see if it has a related data file and will delete this file.
• Fixed the EmuFinder problem, where it didn't pick up GameBoy emulators properly.
• EmuFinder also has better support for MAME, and its constant filename changes!
• MAME game renamer has had a slight speed increase, and should be less likely to stop working for no reason!
• Interface design has been improved.

• Added update ROMs when you change related emulator's properties
• Slightly increased the ROM list loading time.
• Create Shortcut on desktop option
• Various other fixes

• Added Output Roms to HTML options, with special 'Missing MAME Games' incorporating links from MAME.DK
• Found a way to speed up the loading of ROMs!
• Added Refresh Button
• Option to Save Column Sizes
• Various Functions re-written for more speed!
• Other various bug fixes.

• Added this help file!
• Added Rom Properties panel on main window.
• More options have been added to preferences
• Remembered to put in shortcut keys for the menus!!
• Improved the Orphan File checker - now checks favourites for orphaned files.
• When deleting emulators if you remove ROMs related to the emulator the favourites are also checked.
• Allow Favourites to be edited.

• Folder based database now operational
• Emu-Finder completed, although not fully tested
• Top 10 Roms implemented
• MAME Game re-naming implemented
• Basic Options Screen included
• Emulator Ini file editing