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Chris John Hunter:
You make good points Chopper. But I am still finishing my app to do it. I will be doing away with a few roms I don't use at all/are not my type of game. I intend to have this done by the end of the day :cheers:
DHTech:
How's it going today CJ! any progress :)
PL1:
--- Quote from: Chris John Hunter on July 03, 2013, 09:20:01 pm ---you are missing one slight thing, how can someone differentiate - tell apart say one version of 'A GAME' and 'ANOTHER VERSION OF A GAME WITH A VERY SIMILAR NAME' say I have 1951a and I have 1951b. I cant go running each one. Double checking I got the name right and then delete. Then run the next. Over and over. A lot of 'GAMES' have the exact same name save for an additional letter on number that is gibberish to you me and Jez over there.
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:banghead: You have a . . . unique . . . way of seeing things, CJH, but if you're going to scold me for "doing it wrong", READ MY ACTUAL WORDS AND PROCEDURES instead of skimming and mischaracterizing them.
What YOU are missing is that MAMEUIFX has the list of filenames associated to the game titles/variants including parent/child sets.
If you want the fast shoot hack variant of Galaga, you'll need the child rom "galagamf" (indented) and the parent "galaga". (not indented)
When you combine it with History.dat, info.dat, and progetto snaps, you don't have to launch a game to see if it's the one you want.
The problem with your approach is that you you start with all files in the roms folder and remove the ones you don't want.
As I said before, it's easier to add 200 files to a folder than delete 8,500+ files and hope that you don't break another game along the way.
--- Quote from: Chris John Hunter on July 03, 2013, 09:20:01 pm ---And , I don't know about anyone else but sometimes my hard drive takes a long time to access said folder.
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Not sure why that would take a long time -- even for my old EIDE drive only takes two seconds when it first loads the folder.
Pull the Archive folder up then right-click to copy the desired file and right click on the roms folder in the left column to paste.
:o The folder view remains in the Archive folder -- no reload time required. :o
If Windows Explorer isn't behaving that way for you, open a second Win Explorer window so one is in roms and the other is in Archive. Alt-Tab between them to copy/paste.
--- Quote from: Chris John Hunter on July 03, 2013, 09:20:01 pm ---Fear not tis all in hand.
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No fears here -- my methods are the easiest, fastest, and most future-proof that I've found for my use. YMMV.
It's your time to spend as you see fit, with whatever you want in your hand :P , just don't assume that your solution fits all.
I do wish you luck, and hope that your method allows for the occasional renaming of romsets that happens in MAME as new/better dumps become available -- I let MAME do that work for me. ;D
Scott
DHTech:
May be some of you are missing the point of the original post, this is to route out games that i'm not interested in, like the quiz and card games, I intend to leave any roms and parent roms alone for the same games. I don't need or want 3000 odd roms that I have no interest in playing, so might as well delete them, seems a fairly straight forward ask!
CJ may have what I'm looking for :)
Cheers,
Jez
PL1:
I understand that -- just pointing out that CJH's characterization of my approach was at best misleading.
If your gamelist is 2800 titles, CJH's approach may be easier. :dunno
If your gamelist is 200 titles, my approach is probably easier, and more likely to stand the test of time.
I hope CJH's approach works for you.
If not, let me know if you want any help with Plan B.
Scott
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