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Duplicate Mame Roms
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.
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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??