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| lettuce:
Would a deplication program such as, Duplicate File Detective or Noclone work for deleting all Mame deplicate roms, and just leave one copy of each rom?? |
| MaximRecoil:
Are you referring to actual duplicate ROMs, like if you copied and pasted your ROMs a few times, or are you referring to the various clone, bootleg and revision ROMs that might as well be the same game? For the former, those programs you mentioned would work. For the latter, it would not work because they are different files, even though they all seem to play the same game. |
| lettuce:
Well Noclone says that it finds and removes duplicate files regardless of file name. http://noclone.net/ Is there an alternative program that shall delete all clones and bootlegs?? |
| NightGod:
The point is, those files are *not* duplicates. They share similar names and play the same game, but they are included precisely because there is some difference between the clone/bootleg and the original. You would likely get rid of a large portion of them if you ran a normal search on the folder and did terms like b.zip and c.zip since that would pull up the bootlegs and clones that are named according to the conventions, though you'd run the risk of eliminating some unique games, I would think it would be a very small proportion. |
| lettuce:
So there is no program about that will sort out MAME roms, and delete clones of the same rom, and just leave 1 working rom of each game? |
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