Bug 29139

Summary:	ucon64 : the backup tool and wonderful emulator's Swiss Army knife program [New Package Request]
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Zombie Ryushu <zombie_ryushu>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	arromdee2, fri
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://ucon64.sourceforge.io/#download
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	ucon64-2.0.0-13.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:	Packages present in ROSA

Description Zombie Ryushu 2021-06-16 11:39:34 CEST

Please Package ucon64 2.2.1

Packages are present in ROSA.

https://abf.rosalinux.ru/import/ucon64

Zombie Ryushu 2021-06-16 11:39:56 CEST

Status comment: (none) => Packages present in ROSA

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2021-06-17 21:48:17 CEST

This is what its site says about it; which still left me wondering what it basically does!
"uCON64 is the backup tool and wonderful emulator's Swiss Army knife program
It may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License
uCON64 is completely Open Source Software and has been ported to many platforms using code from various people
Support for almost every video game system (Consoles, Handheld, and Arcade) with very verbose ROM information is continuously added and updated
Support for many different backup units to backup/restore ROM(s) and SRAM(s) is also continuously added and updated (if their manufacturers cooperate)
Supports all common patch file formats like IPS (with RLE compression), APS, BSL (Baseline Patch format), PPF (Playstation Patch File), and Game Genie
Support for use and creation of RomCenter Data files (DAT) for secure detection of bad dumps"

Zombie: when you post your new pkg requests, can you please:
- in the bug title, put a brief description of what the thing does.
- if necessary, add a bit more information in the Description.
I have been doing this a lot for you lately.
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Assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might, if there are no license or other legal issues, want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes.

You Zombie might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Summary: [Package Request] ucon64 2.2.1 => ucon64 : the backup tool and wonderful emulator's Swiss Army knife program [New Package Request]

Comment 2 Zombie Ryushu 2021-06-17 21:54:07 CEST

Sorry, I'm juggling three groups of packages, as I have a hybrid network of Linux devices.

Comment 3 Ken Arromdee 2022-07-21 22:07:24 CEST

I use this tool too.

ucon64 does things such as make and apply patches to ROMs, do a crc32 or md5 checksum, add, remove, and fix headers, change interleaved format, etc.

It's available at https://ucon64.sourceforge.io/ and is up to version 2.2.2.  It is open source so there should be no problems adding it.

CC: (none) => arromdee2

Comment 4 Morgan Leijström 2022-07-21 22:14:08 CEST

Adding is a one time problem.
We also need someone committed to keep it updated.

CC: (none) => fri