I have a gift for all you NAers. Credit goes to Maurice of FacePunch. I wanted a program that could copy and rename a blank .srm called SAV.srm and make renamed copies for every .sfc and .smc file in the folder. The only problem is that the program only works if it is used in the folder c:\test. The .srm must also be called SAV.srm. I've used it myself for a batch of roughly 100 games and it worked perfectly. I'm sure some of you will appreciate this, even if it is quite limited with its options.

Basically, to use it, make a folder called 'test' in your C drive. Then put all the ROMs you want .srm files for into the folder, as well as the programs. Then put the blank .srm file from RetroUSB into the folder and name it SAV.srm. Then just run the programs once to get all your .srm files, depending on if your ROMs are .smc, .sfc or both. The two programs can be found here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22278546/...

Pretty cool, although it only being usable with c:/test is pretty laughable, but if it works I guess it would be useful...

Yeah, it's not the greatest program by any means but it does what it needs to. If I knew how to improve it to allow directory selection myself I would, but it has no GUI and my programming skills aren't good enough. It definitely works though, and it's much faster than doing it yourself.

Do the new *.srm files get the same name as their *.sfc counterparts?

Yes. That's the whole point of the program. It does it for both .smc and .sfc depending on which program you use. It copies the .srm file for as many .smc/.sfc's you have in the folder and renames each one to the name of each ROM.

Amazing! Thanks for sharing

No problem. I asked my friend if he knew anyone that could just make something simple for me so I didn't have to do all those games myself (I'd already done about 50 manually and it took me about 20 minutes) and Maurice from FacePunch took up the challenge. I mean it could be a lot better no doubt, but I'm not complaining, seeing as he took his free time to make it for nothing and it certainly gets the job done.

This is awesome, thanks! I've been looking for something like this

If anyone is interested, I found a similar thing for the NES powerpak on nesdev a while back, its a python script but essentially does the same thing.

No problem. I'll make one myself in Visual Basic at some point (Because it's the easiest option) with a GUI and a selectable path etc so that it's more user friendly.

It couldn't get much easier really, dump everything in a folder and run the app, works great

Only improvement would be if it had the intelligence to only create saves for the games that need them, but not sure how that would work

You probably could do that, but I'm not sure how to implement it easily.

Is there anything in the rom files (in the header or anything) to signify that the game has battery back-up ? could maybe write something to read the header and search on that or something

I don't actually know if it's stored anywhere. Someone else may be able to tell you that.