Super Smash Brothers 64 Glitch (blast form the past)
August 19th, 2008Remember the Nintendo 64? It’s still a great system, and it’s still fun to play those classic games. There is a weird glitch in the original Super Smash Brothers. Played on a Nintendo 64 console, the game simply stops. Played through Project 64, however, we see even more weird behavior. This is what some friends and I discovered for ourselves on Summer night. 
FRI Version 1.7.0.1
August 11th, 2008Since I added the ability to copy/move files between libraries in FRI 1.7.0.0, I realized that another feature was missing: The ability to filter by library in an advanced search. Now with this next minor release, the user can not only filter by platform, language, players, rating, and image health, but also library.
Download FRI Version 1.7.0.1 here
Change log:
- New Feature: Advanced searches can now be filtered by Library Folder.
- Tweak: FRI if there is an unexpected error when FRI is closing, FRI will report the error and gracefully close.
FRI Version 1.7.0.0
August 9th, 2008Every so often I will want FRI to be able to something, and then I realize, "Hey! I’m the one who writes it!" This time I had a problem to solve. I just got a new laptop for college, and I wanted to have some ROMs on it. The problem is that I have hundreds of gigs of ROMs, and only would want to play a few on the laptop. The first solution would be to simply put the ROMs on a network share and have FRI look there for the ROMs, but then I wouldn’t be able to play the ROMs on the road. A feature to be able to copy a ROM from one library to another (desktop to laptop) is exactly what I needed, so that’s what I wrote!
Download FRI version 1.7.0.0 here
Here you can see that I have two libraries added. The "Desktop" library is over a network share, and the "Laptop" library is just in my local home folder. 
FRI Version 1.6.0.0
July 25th, 2008
Download FRI version 1.6.0.0 here. 
Change log:
- New "FRI User Settings.xml" file for storing user settings
- Change: the last search is not stored in the new user settings file
- New feature: the user can now rearrange the columns in the main FRI window
- New feature: the selected columns and sorting are now saved when FRI is closed, and reloaded when FRI is opened.
- Fix: When a Library Folder is removed, the associated ROMs will once again be removed. (This was not the case in the previous version of FRI)
- Fix: ROMs with very long file names no longer crash FRI when FRI is scanning for ROMs. Now in many cases the ROMs will be added anyway, and in other cases FRI will simply skip that ROM, informing the user of the error by adding a dummy ROM to the list with "!!! error when finding roms: <message>" as the name, where <message> is the error message.
- New Feature: FRI now reports any error messages that occur when it loads, and gracefully closes. Before if there was an error on load, the user would often have to kill the process with Task Manager.
FRI Version 1.4.0.1
April 26th, 2008This is just a minor update to version 1.4.
Change Log:
- New Feature: "Release Year" values can now be edited manually.
- New Feature: ROMs can now be individually removed from the library.
- New Feature: ROMs can now be deleted.
- Tweak: "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" has been added as another name for "Super Nintendo" in the Platform Vocabulary
- Tweak: When there are ROMs listed, but none are selected, the status bar now reports that "none are selected" instead of "none is selected".