sg4e / fm-librarian

A program that reads PS1 memory card images that contain Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories save data and prints a list of obtained cards in the Library

FM Librarian

A program that reads PS1 memory card images that contain Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories save data and prints a list of obtained cards in the Library. All cards in the Library are included: owned, fusion-summoned, and ritual-summoned. The ideal way to track a Forbidden Memories 100% playthrough!

By sg4e.

Releases built for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. Code works on any platform with a C compiler.

Usage

The simplest way of using FM Librarian (on Windows):

1. Download the latest release
2. Extract
3. Copy your memory card image to the extracted directory where librarian.exe is. Your memory card file should end in .SAVERAM, .mcr, or .gme, or else it won't be recognized
4. Double-click on run.bat
5. A list of card ids that you've obtained in the library will be printed to cards.txt

Note: You must open the in-game "Library" menu and then save each time you want to use your memory card with this program. FM is lazy about keeping the library up-to-date, and does not update all your obtained cards, rituals, and fusions in the library until you open the "Library" menu. Your emulator may not flush the save data to the file until you close the ROM.

Tested memory card formats

• Raw memory card dump
• Bizhawk (.SAVERAM)

FM Librarian should work with any emulator that accurately saves memory card data. If your memory card image is exactly 128KB, it will likely work. Some Bizhawk versions create 256KB card images, which are also supported. FM Librarian expects that the first block of the memory card contains the FM data, but you can specify an alternative block on the command line.

Command-line usage

./librarian (options) [memory card image file] [output file]

Run ./librarian --help for more info.

Compiling

FM Librarian is a simple C program. Platform-specific code is avoided. Simply compile librarian.c on any platform with a C compiler.

fm-librarian's Issues

Libretro memcard images

From a discord conversation concerning the bug:

.sram I had to update to .SAVERAM in order to work properly

because RALibretro saves the files in .mrc and .sram

for some reason [.mcr] doesn't work

I have two saves for each game

one file in .mcr and one in .sram (which I need to manually change to .SAVERAM)

Support memory cards with multiple game data

FM Librarian will fail if the FM data is not in the first block of the memory card. Support for memory cards with save data from multiple games will be supported, but dumps/images of such memory cards are needed for testing.