MiNES: "Mateusz's iNES Editor" Copyright (C) Mateusz Viste 2008
                       http://mateusz.viste.free.fr/dos


    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.


MiNES is free.  It works fine for me,  but I make no  guarantees or  take any
responsibility  for what happens.  You use this product at your own risk.  If
there is a problem, let me know, and I will attempt to fix it.

MiNES doesn't have to be registered,  and you do not need to buy a license to
use it. However, if you want to send me money, I won't stop you.

MiNES was written in FreeBASIC and compiled with FBC v0.18.3.
Minimum requirements are a 386 running DOS 5.0.  Windows and  Linux versions
are available too.

I wrote MiNES because I needed a portable iNES editor  that would allow me to
change the  PAL/NTSC bit of  the iNES header.  MiNES acts accordingly  to the
Marat  Fayzullin's  specification,  and take  care to  not change  any unused
(reserved for  future use) bits.  That way you  can be sure  that it will not
break your ROMs (unless you do something stupid),  and preserve compatibility
with future versions of the iNES format.

The current MiNES version is  much more than just a dumb  header editor - it
computes the ROM's  CRC32 and uses an internal  database to guess the game's
title and correct header settings.

I hope you will find MiNES to be a useful tool.


* Features:
 - Takes care to not change any unused bits,  ase these may be used in future
   versions of the iNES format,
 - Allows to "clean" the  header from  garbage (like "DiskDude!" entries...),
   by reseting all "reserved/unused" bits to zero,
 - Does not write anything to the ROM file, until the user confirm it,
 - Recognises over 120 documented mappers,
 - Finds some header misconfigurations and displays appropriated warnings,
 - Guess the game's title and correct header settings using a GoodNES
   database,
 - May be used to add/edit additional ROM's informations (game's title)...


* COMMAND-LINE SYNTAX
Usage:
 mines rom_file.nes [-h] [-gui | -tui]

Available switches:
 -h   - Shows a help screen
 -gui - Switches to graphic mode (default in the Windows and Linux versions)
 -tui - Switches to text mode (default in the DOS version)


* ERRORLEVELS
MiNES may quits with various errorlevel code. Here is the complete list:
Errorlevel 0 = Nothing to say
Errorlevel 1 = Command-line help screen has been displayed
Errorlevel 2 = The specified ROM file could not be found
Errorlevel 3 = The specified file is not a valid iNES ROM
Errorlevel 4 = Program aborted, because MINES.DAT file is missing


Questions or Comments?
  Don't understand one of the features?
  Think MiNES needs another feature?
  You found a bug?!

        *** Please note, that I will ignore any requests for ROM! ***

Mateusz Viste
mateusz.viste@mail.ru