Matching ROMS to SNAPS

[ardarvin]

Thankfully NIVO has done a great job pf matching snap filenames to rom filenames, however in the world of console emulators, things aren't as good.

I've been playing with some SNES roms, and I've noticed that only about 50% of the matching snaps have the exact same filename, hence my FE (atomicFE) doesn't find the snaps.

For instance, I have a: ActRaiser (U) [!].zip
and a ActRaiser (U).png

Now I really don't want to have to go through and rename about 500 files, I was wondering if there was any software out there to do this.

If not, I may dust off my C++ skills, and try and code a little app to do this.

[youki]

I think something like should exists already.

If you did find one .  I will do one for you quickly.

[Cananas]

You could try this web: http://no-intro.dlgsoftware.net 

[Organic Jerk]

The snapshots from thet site seem to be named in their own format (CRC?)  (ie: Starfox is "0BAE0941.png"), so they obviously won't play well with the Goodtools format.. 

I found a renaming utility on their "tools" page where you can use a dat file from romcenter.com to rename them, but it didn't work at all.. It told me the rom snaps I'm MISSING in goodtools format, but it didnt rename any of the snaps themselves..

I could just be doing it wrong.

EDIT:  Scratch that, I was pointing to the wrong folder.  I was pointing Directly to the snaps folder when it seems to like to be pointed to the console folder, which is one above.  All renamed to Goodtools via a Romcenter dat..  Quite a few popped up in the missing list, though.  Anyone with a complete romlist will still be out of luck.

EDIT2:  Well it still seems to be the same deal... I have alot of snaps not represented....  more, actually

[ardarvin]

OK, I think I figured it out. Thanks for the tip Cananas...I quite like the no-intro naming mentality.

OK, so here's the secret to life, the universe, and everything...

OrganicJerk you are halfway there. Like you did...rename your CRC named snaps to the GoodTools format, using the DAT file from romcenter.

Now...open up the romcenter.exe, and load the same DAT file as your database. Add your local ROM directory as your path. Now you should see a crap load of yellow ROM files with the "bad file name..." error, as well as "bad rom name error". Ignore the latter, as they are just extension changes, and I think if you rename them, you may very well run into problems with your emulator. 

However, sort your ROM list by error message, then right-click on all the "bad file name" ROMS, advanced, rename files.

That should do it. I've now got 100% matching snaps to roms.

[Macarro]

Hi, currently I´m one of the webmasters of No-Intro Screenshot archive (By the way, I didn´t know you also write here, Cananas).

In my oppinion, the No-Intro roms are the best ones by far. I´m not sure about the numbers, but for example, for genesis you can find like 3000 roms for just 1500 real games.

Goodtools tries to catalogue everythint including bad-dumps, hacked roms, custom translations and so on... I personally prefer mame alike cataloguing where only the perfect ones are stored.

Regards.

[sphetr2]

There's also this program called ReNamer...I use it all the time for large scale file renaming. Just set up a rule to remove all the text in brackets/parentheses.

[daywane]

I know what you are going through.
I am having the same problems.
I said the hell with it and manually doing all my own snaps over

I did the same thing with the roms
only kept the USA roms and tried to keep only the USA roms with (!)
sad not all the USA roms are perfect dumps. (most are)

The PC engine ones were simple
NES, SNES, Sega Gen. took months to slim down.
I am just using the Emu to take its own snaps in PNG format.
doing it this way also lets me decide... This game sucks. I do not even want it on my hard drive.
also I am finding games that have games that tie into other games
Dragons revenge ( pinball on sega genesis) has a game before it.
dragons fury. Never knew of that one. (still like dragons revenge better
but dragons fury is also a great pinball game

[sphetr2]

Now I really don't want to have to go through and rename about 500 files, I was wondering if there was any software out there to do this.

If not, I may dust off my C++ skills, and try and code a little app to do this.

GameEx can CREATE snaps for you, so that you know that each snap has the same filename. The only problem is that it can take a while if you want a gameplay screenshot.

But at least you know that everything has a snap.