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Title: Filtering software / techniques?
Post by: ericball on September 14, 2004, 01:13:14 pm

Is there any ROM management software which will select and remove games by category?  I have a 0.84 set, but would love to strip out those games that I will never play (e.g. Mahjong, Japanese text, non-working).

If a tool doesn't exist, has anyone come up with an efficient way of doing this?

Title: Re:Filtering software / techniques?
Post by: lokki on September 14, 2004, 02:38:34 pm

Quote from: ericball on September 14, 2004, 01:13:14 pm

Is there any ROM management software which will select and remove games by category?  I have a 0.84 set, but would love to strip out those games that I will never play (e.g. Mahjong, Japanese text, non-working).

If a tool doesn't exist, has anyone come up with an efficient way of doing this?

MAME content manager

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

Title: Re:Filtering software / techniques?
Post by: creatine28 on September 14, 2004, 03:03:58 pm

Quote from: ericball on September 14, 2004, 01:13:14 pm

Is there any ROM management software which will select and remove games by category?  I have a 0.84 set, but would love to strip out those games that I will never play (e.g. Mahjong, Japanese text, non-working).

If a tool doesn't exist, has anyone come up with an efficient way of doing this?

Here's a Bat file that will move your Mahjong and Quiz games to a junkrom directory.

Just change it from .txt to .bat


Steve

Title: Re:Filtering software / techniques?
Post by: DougHillman on September 14, 2004, 03:20:52 pm

Anyone know if the author is still around?  This program would be perfect if it had the ability to move the selected roms to another directory.  I want to keep the roms, but I'd like them dumped somewhere else.

D

Title: Re:Filtering software / techniques?
Post by: ericball on September 14, 2004, 03:29:01 pm

Thanks Lokki, that's just what I was looking for.  Perfect for a first pass at least.

If you think of it, there is a lot of meta-info available about each game but it's scattered in multiple places.  There's also the accuracy (MAME listinfo versus controls.dat) issue.  Maybe with the move to listinfo being an XML file there is the chance to integrate all of the data and move it ouside of the MAME executable.

Title: Re: Filtering software / techniques?
Post by: creatine28 on December 14, 2004, 07:41:24 pm

Just made a quick updated version (89u4) to remove the Mahjong/quiz games with a few others that are like Mahjong.    I didnt have much time to clean it up, so it contain many duplicate names, however that shouldn't  cause any issue's?  Hope it helps?

As before, rename the .txt to .bat and  then run it.

Steve