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JDFan:


--- Quote from: DHTech on July 04, 2013, 09:47:23 am ---May be some of you are missing the point of the original post, this is to route out games that i'm not interested in, like the quiz and card games, I intend to leave any roms and parent roms alone for the same games. I don't need or want 3000 odd roms that I have no interest in playing, so might as well delete them, seems a fairly straight forward ask!

CJ may have what I'm looking for :)

Cheers,
Jez

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I think they get that but are looking at the problem in a couple different ways --- as PL1 said sometimes rather than delete the ones you do not want it is much easier to just go through and add the ones you do want - all depends on how many games you do have an interest in and how many you don't (ie. you say there's about 3000 you do not have interest in but how close is your estimate as that would mean there are about 5-6000 that you do want on there which is still more than you'll ever actually load ! ) Personally I'd just leave all of them in an archive folder and only load the ones I wanted (ie. same way PL1 does it) and then if while gaming someone mentions one they want that isn't already there it takes just a few minutes (rough estimate) to go into the archive folder and copy\paste the needed files for that game to the active rom folder -- that way you only have the handful of games you and the others playing on the system actually use to look through when selecting a game rather than a list of 6000 after spending time deleting the 3000 you know you didn't want ( plus you still have the others available in the archive folder including those 3000 just in case someone recalls one they want to play and it happens to be one of the 3000 you deleted !)

But as has been pointed out there are many roads to the final destination and there is really no perfect shortcut that gets you there faster than the others.

Chris John Hunter:

Ooh! Scott. I didn't realize it was your time of the month.  :censored: I  used Hyperspin or did and now my own Front End, Mamer. I haven't used the tool you mentioned and made no mention of it. I was simply saying opening a folder and trying to sort Roms manually is both a tedious and long winded tasK, a pain in the arse - to me at least.

All I want is a program that shows what games I have, and allows me to delete the ones I don't wan't.
I just want to do that for now. I will get round to adding a feature to all recompilation of lists for Mame based on this. but at the moment I am too busy.


I like the way I called you a Diamond Geezer TM and you still got offended.


Jez. I have just got back in. Am working on it now. Other lads: This was for my own need basically but I was trying to help another user by offering it up to solve a problem.  If it turns out its not suitable at least I have attempted to help.

I don't come on here to give people stick or to stick the boot in I come on here to learn and to help others
 :-\

PL1:

In addition to deleting games, consider adding a feature that would allow you to add them from an "archive" folder as well, just in case someone changes their mind about a game that they deleted.


Scott

Chris John Hunter:

Scott firstly, I wasn't characterizing your approach. Second, yes good idea. But I am really busy with so many things so will get it done finish my Front End tutorial and get my machine built before looking at it again .


I might add though my C++ driven 'Mamer' Front End has all this built in out of the box. But that would be too much hassle to hack out as an individual tool so yesterday I began knocking up a DBP app for the express purpose of identifying the file names of games a user has and what the name of them is. And letting you delete them of course.

 ;D




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