Bug#737363: higan: crashes when importing or loading unheadered NES ROM

2014-02-06 Thread Tobias Hansen
Thank you very much Michael! byuu has quite high standards regarding the databases so I don't want to mess with that and deviate from what he puts in. You could ask him to put it in the next release but I doubt he will because the databases are meant to contain verified information. I'll probably

Bug#737363: higan: crashes when importing or loading unheadered NES ROM

2014-02-06 Thread Michael Gold
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 23:41:27 +0100, Tobias Hansen wrote: Thank you very much Michael! byuu has quite high standards regarding the databases so I don't want to mess with that and deviate from what he puts in. You could ask him to put it in the next release but I doubt he will because the

Bug#737363: higan: crashes when importing or loading unheadered NES ROM

2014-02-02 Thread Tobias Hansen
Hi Michael, thanks for all those nice bug reports! I'm quite sure that higan can only import NES games with iNES headers because I saw byuu say they contain crucial information that is needed to generate the manifests. If you can also provide a patch adding a check for iNES headers you are my

Bug#737363: higan: crashes when importing or loading unheadered NES ROM

2014-02-02 Thread Michael Gold
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 13:24:30 +0100, Tobias Hansen wrote: Hi Michael, thanks for all those nice bug reports! I'm quite sure that higan can only import NES games with iNES headers because I saw byuu say they contain crucial information that is needed to generate the manifests. If you can

Bug#737363: higan: crashes when importing or loading unheadered NES ROM

2014-02-02 Thread Tobias Hansen
Am 02.02.2014 15:25, schrieb Michael Gold: There's an interesting comment at the bottom of that file: //this currently cannot work: //game folders discard iNES header required for heuristic detection //a games database of all commercial Famicom software will be required string

Bug#737363: higan: crashes when importing or loading unheadered NES ROM

2014-02-01 Thread Michael Gold
Package: higan Version: 094-2 When I try to import an NES ROM without an iNES header, higan segfaults. I don't see any mention in the user guide about preferred ROM formats (headered/unheadered, zipped, etc.), but anything unsupported should fail with a clear error message. Details follow. -