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betacrash

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Need help sorting Roms
« on: October 16, 2004, 05:53:22 pm »
Hi there. I know that there are sorting utilities out there for MAME and such. But is there a utility to sort/delete console roms. I just want to start up my front end(maximus arcade) and see a list of games for each emu (snes, gen, etc) without seeing [!] (J) etc.. etc.. after each title. I would like something that will remove most games that I do not want and clean up the file name of the rom and of the snap. I'm kinda confused when it comes to this sort of stuff. I appreciate any help that could be offered. Thank you -betacrash

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Re:Need help sorting Roms
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2004, 04:20:20 pm »
I'm gonna go ahead and suggest your learn what the rom notation means before you start eliminating roms - for starters:

is a bad dump [b1], [b2] and so on
[h] are hacked files - usually because a clean dump doesn't
run in an emulator, so you actually might want to keep one of these.
[!] are known good/perfect dumps - but even still the original code may not run in your emulator, and so you have the hacks.

Read about the rest here:
http://www.andysroms.com/index.php?page=codes

As for sorting, not sure what OS you are running, but open up a command prompt/terminal whatever and use del or rm in conjuction with globbing to "sort"

aka "del *[b*].zip" or whatever the case may be.  I removed all the bad dumps I had, but you might want to list them first because a bad dump may be all there is.

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Re:Need help sorting Roms
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2004, 04:27:02 pm »
Oh yeah.

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA014830/english/FlexRena/

This program is really good for renaming files in batch if you suck at the command line :)

You can easily tell it to list all the roms with a (J) and then truncate the filenames all at once.