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jcrouse:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on April 27, 2006, 10:58:54 pm ---Must have not tried dk then... it's had a rom filter since day 1. 

Also you can sort via wildcard searches, so you could easily filter off all the bootleg and hacked roms... assuming they are properly labeled of course.  (Which goodtools usually does).

Dk makes lists based on clrmamepro dat files, so popping one of these dats from this project into it's dats folder should work just fine. 


p.s.  Mame isn't a fe, and it doesn't use an external file, unless you are talking about mame32 and the catver.ini which has absolutely nothing to do with the roms themselves rather the game type.  (Also dk has supported catvers not only for mame but any emu since day 1). 

I'm not trying to self-promote here, but dk isn't just another pretty face... it's the back-end that's the most impressive.  ;)


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Howard,
     I am a little disappointed. You are getting VERY predictable. I specifically added the "(I haven't tried them all)" part just to CYA when you replied saying that DK could do this. I have never tried it (took a quick look once) but would have guessed it could (that's a compliment in case you missed it!). I am well aware that Mame is not a FE, but thanks again for educating the masses. I am sure you knew fully the point that I was trying to make.
     Maybe someday I will give DK a go but I have to ask, What is the obsession with Dragons? I have always wondered that. The name alone and the default graphics are what have always turned me off.

Thanks,
John
sWampy:
I always hoped someone would go a step further than this and make a tool, where you could list languages in order of preference that you would like, English, Spanish, German, etc.   This tool would then give you a DAT file with the best English version of each ROM that there was an English version of, the best Spanish version of each ROM that there was no English version of, etc, so you ended up with only one version of each ROM, and in the lunges you preferred most.
jcrouse:

--- Quote from: sWampy on April 28, 2006, 08:15:48 am ---I always hoped someone would go a step further than this and make a tool, where you could list languages in order of preference that you would like, English, Spanish, German, etc.   This tool would then give you a DAT file with the best English version of each ROM that there was an English version of, the best Spanish version of each ROM that there was no English version of, etc, so you ended up with only one version of each ROM, and in the lunges you preferred most.

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I completely agree. For the true collector AND player this is needed badly.

John
sWampy:

--- Quote from: jcrouse on April 28, 2006, 08:42:11 am ---
--- Quote from: sWampy on April 28, 2006, 08:15:48 am ---I always hoped someone would go a step further than this and make a tool, where you could list languages in order of preference that you would like, English, Spanish, German, etc.   This tool would then give you a DAT file with the best English version of each ROM that there was an English version of, the best Spanish version of each ROM that there was no English version of, etc, so you ended up with only one version of each ROM, and in the lunges you preferred most.

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I completely agree. For the true collector AND player this is needed badly.

John

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This http://goodmerge.sourceforge.net/About.php seems like a good start, if you could run the roms through it, then just delete all but best from each set.
Howard_Casto:
Yeah.. actually if you run goodtools with the default options the roms are sorted into folders based on region.... also unless you are really dim all you have to do to sort by language is to sort by the region code  ( [ u ] = u.s. [j]=japan, ect....)

While I can understand how this would be useful to our multilingual friends, I dont see what purpose it'd serve for us dumb americans.  Personally I can speak English, enough Spanish to Save my life and myabe a few slavic curse words. 

There are only two countries who actually make games and release them exclusively in their region, namely the US and Japan.  So if there's an english release of a game, it'll be available in all major european languages or at the very least, english, which everyone seems to know.  If it's a japanese only release, then it is only released in that language, and the number of non-japanese that speak japanese is very limited. 

Again, to me the best course seems to be to sort by country and just leave it at that. 
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