POLL Who here uses Hamster's Romident?

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http://romident.coinopflorida.com/

What a great website. Super simple, and always ready and waiting. Everyone who uses an eprom kit I sell gets trained to verify their roms on this site. I love it.

I donated $5.00 to their paypal link today. I probably should have donated more since I use the site so much.

Do you guys use it? You should donate if you do. Just my $.02

:D
 
Yeah, the site is really nice. I know some folks here would say, "why not just use MAME to verify your roms?" - well, that involves installing mame, and entering a command in DOS to get results. This webpage does all that for you.

I got a thank you note from the site owner for my donation. That was nice.
 
I generally use it any time I need to verify a ROM as WinROMIdent doesn't always have all the versions, nor does it have PROMs.
 
Go figure, I start a thread about Hamster's Romident website, and the same day the site goes down.

DNS resolution for the site is pointing towards 0.0.0.0.

THAT'S not right. Dammit.

Okay, who broke the internet?
 
EDIT: Hamster's site is back up! Yay!

I love online rom verification sites like these. They really do make life easier when chasing down eprom related board repairs.

Please show your appreciation for throwing William a few bucks to help with the cost of his site. Thanks.

As an alternative, there's also a romident site at Arcade restoration.com too, available at http://www.arcaderestoration.com/romidentification.aspx

Use whatever site you like. Be sure to thank them!
 
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By the way, the above referenced site (in addition to KI4SWY's romident page) is maintained by local forum member Arcadenut, the inventor of the "any coin" universal mech, and creator of the Simple Jukebox program for Windows. Thanks for maintaining your version of a romident page, Arcadenut!
 
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Site is back up... FYI.. webhosting isn't free, i had enabled some IoT stuff for a Nasa Space Apps Hack-a-thon and hit my monthly spend limit i had set in place... thanks for shooting me an email , i was able to get it back up and running... M$ took way longer than i liked to clear a spend limit in place.
 
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* reboot in progress to clean up some files, no i am not shutting it down *
 
Do you guys use it? You should donate if you do. Just my $.02


No, I use the ROMIdent I wrote and built into my ROM reading software, so I don't have to upload it to a website, or even save it to disk.

My burner runs on a P3 running windows 98... the last thing I ever want to do is fire up a browser.
 
No, I use the ROMIdent I wrote and built into my ROM reading software, so I don't have to upload it to a website, or even save it to disk.

My burner runs on a P3 running windows 98... the last thing I ever want to do is fire up a browser.

yeah, i wouldn't even want that thing connected to the network
 
What a great website. Super simple, and always ready and waiting.

No, I use the ROMIdent I wrote and built into my ROM reading software, so I don't have to upload it to a website, or even save it to disk.
the last thing I ever want to do is fire up a browser.

I have used the website before and it's great. However, I do agree with Mark's point, often times I don't have an internet connection available.

I wish someone would update the checksums to WinROMIdent! Or explain how to do it. I'd need to do some digging to figure out who wrote the original DOS ROMIdent or incorporated that into WinROMIdent (I know it was two different people). Both those programs work great. They'd be even better if updating the latest MAME ROMchecksum files could be incorporated.
 
I wish someone would update the checksums to WinROMIdent! Or explain how to do it.

The database format is pretty simple, IIRC

For years I've been meaning to make a quick tool to dump it out into text files to remove some of the wrong data in it (ie. blank EPROMs of different sizes are attributed to games due to bad reads). Data from MAME isn't that big of a deal to me since I primarily deal with older boards anyway.
 
The database format is pretty simple, IIRC

For years I've been meaning to make a quick tool to dump it out into text files to remove some of the wrong data in it (ie. blank EPROMs of different sizes are attributed to games due to bad reads). Data from MAME isn't that big of a deal to me since I primarily deal with older boards anyway.

Mark, I emailed you. Can I get your software? Might it work with an EETools TopMax of Data I/O 29B?
 
i actually do a windows version, "somewhere" , i ended up making the website because it was easier for me to deploy updates, i was eventually going to add the ability for users to add there own roms, and have a community upvote/downvote matching ...

The only thing i want to do is rom heustics ( ie, split the rom up into chunks, and than look up those chunks )

i primary built this for use with my Fluke Test gear, as i could dump the rom, upload, and than test.
 
i actually do a windows version, "somewhere" , i ended up making the website because it was easier for me to deploy updates, i was eventually going to add the ability for users to add there own roms, and have a community upvote/downvote matching ...

The only thing i want to do is rom heustics ( ie, split the rom up into chunks, and than look up those chunks )

i primary built this for use with my Fluke Test gear, as i could dump the rom, upload, and than test.

An updated Windows version would be great. As I mentioned, there are many times an internet connection is not available.

I don't know how complicated it is to update when a new version of MAME comes out. Perhaps a feature can be set up where an end user updates with the latest MAME ROM checksums themselves, so you wouldn't have to do it every time?

Even your old Windows version is likely way more up to date than the last WinROMIdent floating around.
 
let me rephrase, I never released a windows version.. :eek:) so therefor i can't update it
 
let me rephrase, I never released a windows version.. :eek:) so therefor i can't update it

I took you first reply that you never released it. I was/am hoping I can talk you into releasing it. :)
 
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