Sorting roms with Goodtools ?

[JamieDeb]

Is there a way to sort rom with goodtools ?
I would like to remove (or put in another folder) some roms I won't use: PD (public domain) roms, and roms that are available in different languages...to keep the strict necessary.

Thanks very much for any kind help,

[stuzza]

yep, there sure is.  Use the "rename" option with the "dirs" option to sort them all into directories by country and public domain, hacks, etc...

Use GoodWin with the goodtools programs as it is much easier using the gui interface.  Then all you need to do is select the rename checkbox and the dirs checkbox.

[JamieDeb]

stuzza,

first, thanks for your response !

Would you have a solution to this:

GAME1 (U)  GAME2 (E)
GAME1 (E)  GAME2 (F)
GAME1 (F)

When you have games localized in different languages, you would like the computer to automatically only keep the US version when game exists in that version; or another version in case it doesn't exist in US.

(hope that I'm clear ;-)

[stuzza]

As far as I'm aware, there isn't a way of doing that??  Although if there is, I'd be very interested to know how!

[MisterB]

I wrote a quick DOS command-line utility to do something like this.  It searches through all of the ROMS in a given folder, and then copies my "preferred" dump of each game into another folder.  

My preferred ROM for a game is determined as follows...
1) Ignore any ROM with "hack" in the title
2) Find my preferred country dumps (U...if none exists, E...if none exists, J...else other)
3) From all dumps in my preferred country, copy the [!] (known good dump) version to the other folder.
3a) If there is no [!] version, copy the version without any [] codes.
3b) If there is no version without [] codes, just copy the first one found.

Essentially, this just leaves me with one good dump of each game (except for hacked games), with english-language versions having precedence.  And it works for any of the GoodCode sets.

I figured this was a pretty useful utility, and was surprised that I could not find anything else out there to do this.  After all, do I really need to scroll through 15 versions of the same game in my FE?

Anyway, if this the kind of utility you were looking for?  If so, I could post it on the web.

[joeblade]

I suspect a fair few people (including myself) would find this sort of util useful, so please do post it somewhere on the net.

Now that I have got some console's configured on my PC, I am beginning to realise that all the clones become annoying (and some of the consoles have a lot of clones for the same rom).

Cheers

 

Just noticed I have hit the half century. I am still amazed I didn't join the forum a couple of years back, when I first found this web page. So much info must have past me by in that time !

[stuzza]

MisterB, please post your utility.  I'd love to give it a try!

[JamieDeb]

MisterB

Seems that this is exactly what I was looking for ;-)
Would you be kind to put it online ?
Thanks again,

[tagnetti]

Yes, Yes I'd love it. This would seem to help me sort out unwanted duplicates and allow me to delete them once its done.

Also do you know how to sort games by control type?

Thanks

[MisterB]

See
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=10306