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| NightGod:
Short of manually going through them all, there is no way I know of to definitively remove all of the dupe ROMs and leave only working copies. |
| MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: NightGod on July 30, 2006, 05:14:07 pm ---Short of manually going through them all, there is no way I know of to definitively remove all of the dupe ROMs and leave only working copies. --- End quote --- Running the batch file that I linked to, or making your own, will do 99% of the work. You will end up with all the clones in a different folder and all the parent ROMs left in the original ROMs folder. There are a few cases where the clone works but the parent doesn't but the parent still needs to be there, so you would have to go back and deal with that manually. |
| pointdablame:
A good follow up question would be: Is there a definitive list available of games that have a working clone, but a non-working parent? If there is, or if we could figure it out, you could create a batch file to do what you wanted. I've never dived into this very much. I usually keep all my roms in my frontend and just deal with it, or more often, i hand pick a few games that I want to play on a particular machine. Having a list of all working, parent roms (and those few clones) sure would be handy though. |
| Havok:
Joymonkey has a nifty little batch file that actually moves the clones to another directory. It looks like he last updated it to v.103, however I would think all is the same, except some non-working changed to working status. If you only want to remove clones, then this utility should work just fine. Check it out here: Clone Mover 0.103 |
| lettuce:
Shall i start another thread up then, where people can list roms that have working clone, but a non-working parent rom file, or we could list them here?? |
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