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Willypill:
I've got around 60GB of atari, nes, snes, genesis, and mame roms.  I want to get rid of all the ones I don't need (ie. the clones and japanese versions, ect..).  These roms are not on the PC that will be running mamewah.  That PC only has 40GB.  So that's one of the reasons I need to sort.  That and I don't want 5 copys of every game.  What is the best program for doing this?  Thanks.

madmagician:
Well, you need a combination of proggys.   


Goodtools (GoodNES, GoodSNES, GoodGEN, and Good2600). I believe these are over at a place called Zophar's Domain.

Mame Content Manager is another good program for sorting mame ROMS.

Not sure the crosslink policy here so Google is your Friend.

Kobex:
The last time a question like this came up (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=41174.0), I posted the following:


--- Quote ---I wrote an application for myself for this purpose.  I didn't want to remove all of a certain region/option in case that eliminated all versions of a particular game.

If you want to try out my application you can go here:  http://pages.sbcglobal.net/kobe/ROMSorter.zip

Sorry for the file size (5 megs), but it contains the CVI LabWindows libraries (so it's like installing VB runtimes).  The actual executable is quite small.

This is really only for console ROMS, as existing MAME-specific utilities are far superior for this task.

I've been meaning to throw together some documentation but I have not yet done so.  This might be a little confusing.  Basically what you can do is assign point values to certain region codes, country codes, and matching artwork files (you supply the artwork paths).  You choose a source and destination folder, and the utility will copy the version of each title scoring the most points to the destination folder.  You can also specify a point cut-off, so that only the "best" files above this cut-off will actually be copied.

I haven't fully tested this latest version, so I don't know if there are any show-stopping bugs.  You can give it a try, and hopefully it'll be of some help.  I personally like this method as it lets me choose the criteria for keeping ROMs.  Others might prefer a fully automated approach.
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I don't think anyone has tried the lastest version of my software yet, but you're welcome to give it a go.  If you do use it, let me know if you have any questions.

TOK:
On my vacation week, I did all of the consoles by hand!
Pared it down so the SNES, NES and Genesis games, plus all of the classic consoles fit on one DVD. It took maybe 2 hours or so to do each one. The NES took the longest. I just kept all the US games (and a few of the unique Japanese and European games I knew of), eliminated all the dupes and hacks.

Very stone age to do it that way, but I did it once, my set is perfect for me and burned to a DVD. I'm glad I took the time to do it.

lettuce:

--- Quote from: Kobex on September 05, 2005, 11:09:47 pm ---The last time a question like this came up (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=41174.0), I posted the following:


--- Quote ---I wrote an application for myself for this purpose.
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