Snap Shots-A way to auto rename to png??

[Demon-Seed]

Hi,
I am running Lazarus and the snaps require that the shots be in png format..I have 2 problems. When I take a snap of say rom Ghouls_N_Ghosts [!].zip it usually saves it as Ghouls_N_Ghosts [!]_0000.bmp is there a easy way to take a bunch of those and make it the correct name to match the rom? without doing each one manually? thats a lot!! also is there a to then change it to .png automatically all at once
?

thx
Jim

[Howard_Casto]

I've told you this before... renaming a file to png does not convert the file format.  It has to be converted.  Also when you take a snap in mame it does not add the extra numbers on to the name unless there is already a file there.  It also saves it in png format unless you have a goofy build of mame.  I use ifan view to batch convert files to png for the record... you point to the dir and go.  

[Demon-Seed]

Hey Howard,
Maybe I was misiturped..Mame shots work fine.. its the othe rones like SNES, NES, GENESIS they add _000 or a number of 00000 to the file ie) Jim.zip would be Jim_00000.bmp or something. When I said I save them in PNG what I do is open it in the paint paint prog in XP and resave as a png..it works..it converts it for you.

As for the batch program...can u explain where I can get it? but what of the _0000 it adds when I take snaps?

thx
Jim

[Howard_Casto]

Just do a google search for irfan view... it's pretty popular.  You can't get rid of the zeros unfortunately... they'll have to be renamed manually.  

[Minwah]

OK my frontend MAMEWah allows you to do SOME of this annoying work:

It will rename snapshot filenames for you in order to be the same as the ROM name (apart from extension of course).  It will not however convert the image type - you will have to do this as described earlier (MAMEWah allows .PNG, .GIF, .PCX, .JPG & .BMP images).

For a description of how to set it up for Gens (eg romname_000.bmp) visit http://mamewah.mameworld.net/Emulators.html .  I'm pretty sure it should work with most emulators as well.

Having said all that, this was written to help if you are TAKING snaps now - ie not if you already have a bunch of snapshots.  BUT it will still work, so long as you PLAY each game (but don't take a new snapshot).  Does that make sense??

If you've got a load of snaps to take, use MAMEWah to rename them, run a batch process to convert to PNG, and go back to Lazarus  Or just use MAMEWah he he

[Xiaou2]

Download Xnview:

 http://www.xnview.com

Its a great picture viewer and batch image converter.

Also, theres a great re-namer called flash renamer:

http://www.rlvision.com/flashren/about.asp

 Works awesome for changing lots of file names.