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| CCM:
--- Quote from: yamatetsu on February 12, 2016, 05:26:50 am --- Now I start a text editor that has a 'macro' feature, opening mametest.bat. I put the cursor at the beginning of line 1. Now I make a macro that puts 'mame ' in front of every rom name (without the ' of course), then goes to the beginning of the line and then goes one line down. Then I use the macro until every line in the .bat is done. Now I have a batch file that starts every .zip file in the roms folder automatically. --- End quote --- An alternate way would be to pull your mametest.bat file into excel, insert a column at the left, paste the word 'mame' into the column and save as text. No need for any macros. |
| yamatetsu:
--- Quote from: CCM on February 12, 2016, 03:27:20 pm ---An alternate way would be to pull your mametest.bat file into excel, insert a column at the left, paste the word 'mame' into the column and save as text. No need for any macros. --- End quote --- Noted for future projects, too late for now. Thanks for the tip, though. Hutt, check your mail. Now you can put the .bat into the MAME root directory, start a DOS window and then launch mametest.bat. If you find a game you want to keep, ALT+TAB back to windows and look into the DOS window to get the romname, then copy that ROM somewhere. Rinse and repeat. When you're done, you can mail me the contents of your wanted games directory or you can use CCM's tip to create a new mametest.bat. By the way, you should edit the .bat before using it. There are tons of lines that can be deleted. Good luck finding them :) |
| Hutt:
--- Quote from: yamatetsu on February 12, 2016, 03:36:13 pm --- --- Quote from: CCM on February 12, 2016, 03:27:20 pm ---An alternate way would be to pull your mametest.bat file into excel, insert a column at the left, paste the word 'mame' into the column and save as text. No need for any macros. --- End quote --- Noted for future projects, too late for now. Thanks for the tip, though. Hutt, check your mail. Now you can put the .bat into the MAME root directory, start a DOS window and then launch mametest.bat. If you find a game you want to keep, ALT+TAB back to windows and look into the DOS window to get the romname, then copy that ROM somewhere. Rinse and repeat. When you're done, you can mail me the contents of your wanted games directory or you can use CCM's tip to create a new mametest.bat. By the way, you should edit the .bat before using it. There are tons of lines that can be deleted. Good luck finding them :) --- End quote --- Dude that is freaking awesome!!! And instead of my HS cab I'll do a lot of this on my main pc which has multiple monitors so the dos window is displayed on another screen and I don't even have to alt tab out to see a rom name when I need to. Thanks a lot!! |
| yamatetsu:
De nada. Glad that my 'complicated' method is useful after all. Now I'm waiting to see how much you can whittle down those 15,509 lines ... |
| PL1:
--- Quote from: Hutt on February 12, 2016, 08:09:24 am ---@PL1....that's all well and good but keeping a copy in an 'archives' folder defeats the purpose of what I want to do. What is the purpose of archiving something I will never use. --- End quote --- It's used as a test and evaluation system. If someone on the forums mentions a game that sounds interesting, it's easy to check it out. When it comes time to transfer files to the cab, you leave the archives behind and only transfer the desired games/artwork/support files. Scott |
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