OfflineList's limitations & workarounds

[laqieer]

This project chooses OfflineList as base, but it is really old, so it has some limitations. Here are its limitations and workarounds.

Lacks runtime support on medern Windows

3 Solutions:

• Download missing dll according to this
• Install old Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable according to this
• Install VisualCppRedist AIO

No HTTPS support

It only supports HTTP for URL, and GitHub Pages enforces HTTPS for its domain github.io, so I use a custom domain laqieer.ml to support HTTP access, otherwise it will fail to download images and check update. However the free domain is limited to one year, so I need to renew it before expiry date. In addition, the accessibilty of the domain is tested and reported in #1.

Limited language support

Its language field only supports following languages:

1 = French
2 = English (US)
4 = Chinese
8 = Danish
16 = Dutch
32 = Finland
64 = German
128 = Italian
256 = Japanese
512 = Norwegian
1024 = Polish
2048 = Portuguese
4096 = Spanish
8192 = Swedish
16384 = English (UK) (only if English (US) already exist)
32768 = Portuguese (BR)
65536 = Korean

Therefore, other unsupported languages like Russian are marked in the title or comment field.

⚠️Inaccurate ROM check & missing entries

It doesn't support better checksums like MD5 or SHA1 like modern ROM mangers such as ClrMame Pro and RomCenter. It only supports CRC32, and CRC32 has a high hash collision rate, so its ROM check is inaccurate. For example, some FE7U based ROM Hacks like 108 - The Road to Ruin, 113 - Requiem, 114 - Fallen King, and 122 - Fire Emblem Different Dimensions Ostian Princess 2.0 have the same CRC32: 2144DF1C, so it cannot distinguish between them. It can only display the first entry and ignore the remaining entries with the same CRC32, so 108 is in the list while 113, 114, 117, 122, 123, 126 are missing in the list. In order to fix that, I do some little and harmless changes to those ROMs to make their CRC32 different, such as adding some extra bytes at end of file.

👉Notice: Edit ROM to avoid CRC32 collision accoding to the table please!

+ means to append bytes to the ROM

Conflicted CRC32	ROM	Edit	New CRC32
2144DF1C	108 - The Road to Ruin	+ 00 00 00 00	6522DF69
2144DF1C	113 - Requiem	+ 00 00 00 01	1225EFFF
2144DF1C	114 - Fallen King	+ 00 00 00 02	8B2CBE45
2144DF1C	117 - Fire Emblem [Latino] 2.0 ~ You Can (Not) Ban (English)	+ 00 00 00 03	FC2B8ED3
2144DF1C	122 - Fire Emblem Different Dimensions Ostian Princess 2.0	+ 00 00 00 04	624F1B70
2144DF1C	123 - Fire Emblem - Barhara Revisited	+ 00 00 00 05	15482BE6
2144DF1C	126 - Yuri’s Sidestory	+ 00 00 00 06	8C417A5C
2144DF1C	171 - One-Week Hack	+ 00 00 00 07	FB464ACA
2144DF1C	247 - Fire Emblem - Izarck’s Quest	+ 00 00 00 08	6BF9575B
2144DF1C	251 - Dream of Five	+ 00 00 00 09	1CFE67CD
2144DF1C	253 - Decay of the Fangs	+ 00 00 00 0A	85F73677
2144DF1C	254 - Atirian Conquest	+ 00 00 00 0B	F2F006E1
2144DF1C	255 - League of Champions (Patch1)	+ 00 00 00 0C	1B93A3D4
2144DF1C	256 - League of Champions (Patch2)	+ 00 00 00 0D	6C949342
2144DF1C	258 - Typhon’s Wake	+ 00 00 00 0E	829AF26E
2144DF1C	277 - Fire Emblem - Dust to Dust	+ 00 00 00 0F	F59DC2F8
2144DF1C	295 - Sword of Seals ReDux	+ 00 00 00 10	7895CF0D
2144DF1C	332 - FE7 Chaos Mode	+ 00 00 00 11	0F92FF9B
2144DF1C	341 - FE7 Lute Mode	+ 00 00 00 12	969BAE21
2144DF1C	408 - The Queen’s Lament	+ 00 00 00 13	E19C9EB7
2144DF1C	500 - Untitled	+ 00 00 00 14	7FF80B14
2144DF1C	505 - Le Chien Est Adorable	+ 00 00 00 15	08FF3B82
2144DF1C	520 - Moneyfest	+ 00 00 00 16	91F66A38
2144DF1C	521 - Title Here	+ 00 00 00 17	E6F15AAE
2144DF1C	528 - The Purge Of Weegee	+ 00 00 00 18	764E473F
2144DF1C	531 - The Roots That Bind	+ 00 00 00 19	014977A9
2144DF1C	532 - Asylum Of Irony	+ 00 00 00 1A	98402613
2144DF1C	535 - Ragefest Chronicles	+ 00 00 00 1B	EF471685
2144DF1C	540 - Wheel Of Misfortune	+ 00 00 00 1C	71238326
2144DF1C	499 - Auto Emblem	+ 00 00 00 1D	0624B3B0
2144DF1C	545 - Tales of Bravery	+ 00 00 00 1E	9F2DE20A
2144DF1C	553 - FE8 Beta Test 1	+ 00 00 00 1F	E82AD29C
2144DF1C	558 - FOAL	+ 00 00 00 20	5E4CFFA1
2144DF1C	654 - Shameless Reused Asset	+ 00 00 00 21	294BCF37
2144DF1C	761 - Bankai-Silverworld's Emblem	+ 00 00 00 22	B0429E8D
2144DF1C	124 - Death or Glory	+ 00 00 00 23	C745AE1B
2144DF1C	774 - Shatterlight	+ 00 00 00 24	59213BB8
2144DF1C	778 - Project dondon	+ 00 00 00 25	2E260B2E
2144DF1C	903 - Devourer of Worlds	+ 00 00 00 26	B72F5A94
2144DF1C	1074 - Fire Emblem Nemesis	+ 00 00 00 27	C0286A02
2144DF1C	1080 - Awful Emblem - The Thread Demo	+ 00 00 00 28	50977793
2144DF1C	1167 - Heart Wars	+ 00 00 00 29	27904705