Too many console games!

[DanteBK]

Has anyone come up with a method or written a program to take 8,000 NES ROMs or 3,500 SNES ROMs (or whatever) and get rid of all the unnecessary duplicates?

I spent about a half hour manually deleting Gameboy duplicates and hadn't yet got to D before I wanted blow my brains out. I can't imagine why there'd be so many versions of Boomer's Adventures in Asmik World.

[Industen]

A program already exsists that does this exact thing. It's called goodtools and will rename, remove, and sort all your ROMS for you.

http://haggar.emuunlim.com/goodtool/goodtool.htm

[TalkingOctopus]

I did it manually although I did not have an astronomical amount of duplicates like you.  Familiarize yourself with the good codes (http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/gtguide.htm#section5).  That way you can do searches based on the code and delete some of the useless roms in one swipe.  I'd delete any roms containing and [h] codes to start.  Then I'd find all of the roms and sort those for the front end list.

[stuzza]

As recommended above, you should use Goodtools to get your console sets down to a manageable number.  I tend to use only the USA sets in my cab.  You use the "dirs" command line option with the appropriate goodtools program to sort the roms into directories based on country, hacks etc...

[DanteBK]

I can't figure it out.  

I'm using GoodSNES ... at the command prompt in my ROMs folder, with the EXE the CFG and the zlib.dll file in the same folder ... I type GoodSNES move dirs and it just moves EVERYTHING into SNESRen

Whatever I'm doing wrong is probably obvious and really stupid, but I've been doing this for 45 minutes and I'm not getting anywhere. Help would, as always, be appreciated.

EDIT: I figured it out! I downloaded a GUI and it used rename dirs instead and that worked. So anyway, alls well that ends well. Never mind!  

[squirrellydw]

Time to bring back an old thread.   If I already have a full set of NES roms in the goodtools format I should be able to use the program above to remove all the roms except for the USA version correct?

[squirrellydw]

I tried the program and I don't see how I can delete everything except for USA roms.  Am I missing something or is there another program that will do this?

[Chunce DeLeone]

Forget that program.............use windows search and find all roms with (U), copy to a new folder, delete the old one, you will have all USA roms

[squirrellydw]

   really it's that easy?  I didn't even think of that, I will give it a shot this weekend.

[Chunce DeLeone]

Yeah I didn't realize it either,  It took about two minutes that way...

[Chemixtry]

I used this program made by a fellow byoacer and it worked great. You assign a point value to codes such as region, hack, demo etc and it will filter everything into a new folder. If you are happy with it you just use the new folder. It doesnt change the name of anything.  I sorted mine to only include japanese games if there was not an american version of the game. It made a huge diffence in the amount of space for my snes, nes, and sega collections.
Thread:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=41174.0
Utility:
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/kobe/ROMSorter.zip

[Dagg]

I just used a windows search for everything with (U) in it.   Then moved those to a usaroms folder then in there I did searches for [p and deleted the results rinse and repeate for the other [o, [h, T+, etc doesnt take long to widdle it down

[squirrellydw]

Forget that program.............use windows search and find all roms with (U), copy to a new folder, delete the old one, you will have all USA roms

worked great, thanks