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Title: Delete those mahjongs (and Quizzes)
Post by: menace on December 02, 2003, 08:39:29 am

I'm no programmer so those of you that are will have a laugh.  Anyways, heres a simple batch file to delete those mahjong games.  Will save you from having to explain to your guests that no you don't play them, the animated half naked japanese girls do not arouse you and that they are just part of the romset (unless of course animated japanese girls in their undies are your thing then by all means keep them ;))

List taken from genre.ini in folders section of mame.
edit : oh yeah rename .txt to .bat.

Title: Re:Delete those mahjongs
Post by: Lilwolf on December 02, 2003, 08:44:33 am

There is an a few programs that can do it (but adult games, not mahjong ones)

Better solution is

1) Learn to play them.... I hear they are fun

2) Get a frontend that has filters.

Title: Re:Delete those mahjongs
Post by: JackTucky on December 02, 2003, 09:22:52 am

I'll use it.  Thanks.

Lilwolf.  What's your high score at one of these?

Art

Title: Re:Delete those mahjongs
Post by: menace on December 02, 2003, 11:08:57 am

I just did one up for quiz games too.  I am big on reclaiming HD space that would otherwise be wasted  ;D

Quote

Learn to play them.... I hear they are fun

no thanks, I have over 4000 games, I might as well play the ones I enjoy--maybe when I'm bored I'll try one of those...

same drill--turn .txt to .bat

Title: Re:Delete those mahjongs
Post by: eightbit on December 02, 2003, 11:11:20 am

Quote from: Lilwolf on December 02, 2003, 08:44:33 am

There is an a few programs that can do it (but adult games, not mahjong ones)

Better solution is

1) Learn to play them.... I hear they are fun

2) Get a frontend that has filters.

There are several programs that can delete/rename/move (your choice) roms based on information in the catver.ini file which includes many categorys like adult or mahjong. There is even at least one that can optionally delete/rename/remove artwork, screenshots, titles, and other related files to those roms if you want it to.

Title: Re:Delete those mahjongs (and Quizzes)
Post by: lokki on December 02, 2003, 12:24:10 pm

Hi,
I use MameContentManager.

Available from

http://www.mameworld.net/mcm/

It uses the Catver.ini (available from http://www.catver.com/)


Hope this helps

Title: Re:Delete those mahjongs
Post by: creatine28 on December 02, 2003, 12:31:45 pm

Quote from: menace on December 02, 2003, 11:08:57 am

Do you know off hand how much spcae was freed up when you removed the Mahjong and quiz games?  Just curious and I'm at work right now, so I can't check at the moment.

Thanks for the batch files!

Steve

Title: Re:Delete those mahjongs (and Quizzes)
Post by: lokki on December 02, 2003, 12:37:02 pm

Hi,
Not really sure how much space was saved.
I needed to fit as many games as possible on a 8 Gig hd (including OS/mame/atari)
So I got rid of Mahjong/quiz/adult. and chd games (this was on mame .75)
And everything fit. But not sure what was the original size, or what size I ended up with.

Title: Re:Delete those mahjongs (and Quizzes)
Post by: JamesS on December 02, 2003, 02:47:31 pm

The games that shocked me were the Fantasia games.  I downloaded some snaps for d-f roms, that I had downloaded, and I was going through them looking for something to play when boom.

I am thinking, I need to get rid of these before the wife sees them.  I did try to play them first.  Kind of an Adult Qix game.  But I like Qix.

Title: Re:Delete those mahjongs (and Quizzes)
Post by: menace on December 02, 2003, 03:44:29 pm

thanks lokki--that is way better than my ghetto batch files  ;) :P

Title: Re:Delete those mahjongs (and Quizzes)
Post by: lokki on December 02, 2003, 04:10:59 pm

Actually it can create the batch files for you :-)

Title: Re:Delete those mahjongs (and Quizzes)
Post by: DarkKobold on December 14, 2003, 01:42:54 pm

Does this kill all the adult games as well?

Title: Re:Delete those mahjongs (and Quizzes)
Post by: Lilwolf on December 15, 2003, 09:56:53 am

And as how good my score is...

I have to admit... I havent had time to really play them yet (2 kids and wife).  

But with cheats... I get to see all the little anime pron I ever want  ;D