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Rom Sorting Thread?
« on: November 03, 2003, 03:23:10 pm »
Hey,

I couldn't find that darn thread about sorting roms and such (it had a bunch of links and info I need). I searched and went through about 10 or 15 pages. Could anyone link me?

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Re:Rom Sorting Thread?
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2003, 04:46:47 pm »
What do you mean?  Do you want to actually sort your rom files into different folders or just create lists of roms for frontends based on different categories? Take a look at a program called SortInfo.

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Re:Rom Sorting Thread?
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2003, 06:02:21 pm »
Like weed out roms that aren't for my version of MAME. I'm using MAME 0.59 on my cab, but I have version 0.70 roms.

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Re:Rom Sorting Thread?
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2003, 06:07:45 pm »
You can always use a rom manager like clrmame or romcenter.  I know clr mame will get rid of unneeded files.

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Re:Rom Sorting Thread?
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2003, 07:32:09 pm »
Know where I can get the DAT file for MAME 0.59 then?

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Re:Rom Sorting Thread?
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2003, 08:45:27 pm »
Get the mame.exe for 59