RomSorter, I don't get it..

[rlehm]

Is there any documentation on how to use Romsorter?
thanks in advance.

[NOP]

do you mean ROMLister?

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/RL_tutorials

[rlehm]

naw, romsorter. I figured it out, it's a life saver.

[headkaze]

Never heard of this program have you got a link?

[NOP]

yeah, what's it do?

[rlehm]

There's a member here who made it. I found it on the boards. just search it out.

it sorts roms out. I want only (U) US roms, and it did the trick 7 thousand roms are now 700 US roms

[Hoopz]

Well I cant complain that you didn't search first but your answer wasn't the most helpful.   

Here's a link to the app.


http://transwarped.com/ROMSorter.zip

I think Kobex wrote it.

[Flake]

yea but wont you run the risk eliminating the "parent" roms (for lack of a better word).  I was under the impression some of the US roms may be clones dependent upon other roms.  If you delete the parent roms the clones wont work then you have to go back and readd those?

If I right about this?

[NOP]

well, from what I gather, this romsorter app is really for console roms, not mame, so there should be no worries about parent roms, since on consoles one rom = one game, so there are no dependencies (well, maybe the system BIOS, but that's a different thing altogether)

for mame stuff, I suggest clrmamepro utility, which you can have re-work your collection so that each game has every file it needs right in the zip itself.  Yes, it takes up a lot more space this way, but space is dead cheap, and the ease of adding/deleting games is so much nicer.

then of course, you should use ROMLister as mentioned at the top of this thread, to sort out all the games that are actually playable on your mame machine.  For example, if you don't have a trackball on your machine, why put roms that need a trackball on it?  ROMLister helps with that sorta stuff.

-jeff!

[Flake]

You know I would love to be able to use clrmamepro utility but I find it is insanely difficult to figure what to do with it.  For the life of me I cant figure it out.

I do have a need to clean up my console roms though.  I will look into using this for that. 

One other thing....my console roms are named using good tools.  I would like to match them up to the emumovie file names.  Does anyone know a good way to do this?  I used a free trial version of some software that allows you to easily go through and delete/add certain characters from the file names of my roms but for some reason it still isnt quite matching.  Does emumovies have movies based  on the good tools file naming system?

[thatitalian]

I agree with Flake. You know what would be great, a video tutorial on how to use clrmamepro!

Maybe there is one out there, I have seen one, but it was in Spanish!

[headkaze]

I agree with Flake. You know what would be great, a video tutorial on how to use clrmamepro!

Maybe there is one out there, I have seen one, but it was in Spanish!

There was a good tutorial on mameworld but it seems to have gone. It's on the internet archive, so it's worth a look here

[u_rebelscum]

There was a good tutorial on mameworld but it seems to have gone. It's on the internet archive, so it's worth a look here

It was redone at http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/clrmameguide/clrmame-guide.html.  Personally, I don't like the new "TV screen" format, but besides that, it's good to see easyemu updated.

[headkaze]

It was redone at http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/clrmameguide/clrmame-guide.html.  Personally, I don't like the new "TV screen" format, but besides that, it's good to see easyemu updated.

I agree, that's probably a good example of how not to use frames in a webpage.

[NOP]

One other thing....my console roms are named using good tools.  I would like to match them up to the emumovie file names.  Does anyone know a good way to do this?  I used a free trial version of some software that allows you to easily go through and delete/add certain characters from the file names of my roms but for some reason it still isnt quite matching.  Does emumovies have movies based  on the good tools file naming system?

This may be doable, depending on what formatting the emumovie filenames are in. 
I've been playing around lately with some fuzzy search/string matching code, and it would not be that hard to come up with a program to rename "yars revenge.avi" to "Yars Revenge (US) [a1][!].avi" or whatever silly format the goodTools named files are in.   From there, someone could generate a .dat file to CRC the avi files and then anyone could use it in romcenter or whatever.  All I'd need is a .txt file list of the goodtools named files, and a .txt list of the .avi files to do the matching.   

-jeff!

[TheShanMan]

A tool with fuzzy filename matching ability would be awesome! I recently put Atari 2600 roms plus snaps/boxes/carts on my cab and it was a pain getting filenames matched. One FE, I think it's GameEx, has fuzzy matching built in (Circo told me this), but it would be nice to have a tool that everyone else could use!

[Flake]

One other thing....my console roms are named using good tools.  I would like to match them up to the emumovie file names.  Does anyone know a good way to do this?  I used a free trial version of some software that allows you to easily go through and delete/add certain characters from the file names of my roms but for some reason it still isnt quite matching.  Does emumovies have movies based  on the good tools file naming system?

This may be doable, depending on what formatting the emumovie filenames are in. 
I've been playing around lately with some fuzzy search/string matching code, and it would not be that hard to come up with a program to rename "yars revenge.avi" to "Yars Revenge (US) [a1][!].avi" or whatever silly format the goodTools named files are in.   From there, someone could generate a .dat file to CRC the avi files and then anyone could use it in romcenter or whatever.  All I'd need is a .txt file list of the goodtools named files, and a .txt list of the .avi files to do the matching.   

-jeff!

Jeff - I would be happy to provide you with such a list but how exactly does one go about doing this quickly?

I'm not sure what format the emumovie file names are in but most just seem to add (U) or a (U) (!) to the end of the movie.  The emumovie format seems simple enough to filter match your romset to, but for some reason I have tons of console movies that are not playing with their associated roms.

[NOP]

a quick way to get a list of files in any folder is like this:

right click on the folder itself, and click "command prompt".
at the DOS prompt, type dir /b >listing.txt
then type exit

the dos window will close, and you'll now have a nice .txt file in that folder of all the files there.

I'd need a .txt file of both the .avi files and the .zip files of the console roms to match them to.

[Flake]

a quick way to get a list of files in any folder is like this:

right click on the folder itself, and click "command prompt".
at the DOS prompt, type dir /b >listing.txt
then type exit

the dos window will close, and you'll now have a nice .txt file in that folder of all the files there.

I'd need a .txt file of both the .avi files and the .zip files of the console roms to match them to.

OK when I right click on the folder I dont see any command prompt option.  I am using vista and know how to access the command prompt through accessories and can type in your command but how do I make sure it is making a list of the proper folder.

Thanks

[NOP]

it'll make a list of whatever files are in whatever folder you're sitting in when you're at the command prompt, so if you start the command prompt elsewhere, you'll have to change directories wherever you need to go before doing the dir /b >listing.txt.

you'll have to type something along the lines of cd \mame\emumoves or where ever your files are stored to get the command prompt in the correct folder before doing the dir command.

You can of course always 2x click on "listing.txt" that gets created and bring it into notepad to see that it has the list you're expecting.