PSP: MacX_romcnv Backends v2.0.6

March 14th, 2007, 12:53 Posted By: b8a

It's been a few weeks since NJ released his latest update, but since I've been busy trying to nail down a process for creating accurate rips of PC Engine S/CD games on OS X (all with open source software), I haven't had a chance to compile NJ's converters until now.

Having ripped and tested my S/CD library (all work beautifully in Mednafen), I did a quick compile of NJ's rom converters. The great news is that the source is now extremely multi-platform friendly and compiles very easily, so if you use an OS that doesn't have any working publicly released binaries (such as, perhaps, Mac OS X Intel), you can now easily compile the converters on your own. It only takes a few minutes. The only catch is that there are a few modifications that you'll probably have to make to the source. These are the steps that I had to follow to get the converters to build successfully:

• Change all instances of "zopen(" to something else (I use "z_open("). This doesn't even take 10 seconds using a text editor that can recursively search-and-replace. TextWrangler (freeware) does this beautifully.
• Remove all <malloc.h> headers. I only found one in common.h and unzip.c each.
• cd into the romcnv source directory and compile! (make -f makefile.mvs UNIX=1)
• I always ran into a problem at this point that required me to run: ranlib ./obj_mvs/zlib.a
• Run make one more time

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