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Title: CMove clone removing batch file
Post by: JoyMonkey on December 18, 2004, 02:35:17 pm
I just updated my little batch file (http://mame.joymonkey.com/cmove.html) that will move every clone rom out of your roms folder and place it in c:\clones. This is great if you want to make your rom selection a little less bloated

The only problem with this is that a handfull of parent roms don't work, but have working clones.
 Is there a way of finding which games have a non-working parent, but a working clone?

For example, in Mame 0.89, the parent rom getstar (http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/getstar) doesn't work, but there is a working clone called getstarb (http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/getstarb).

I don't know how many games there are like this, but I'd like to find out so my script could leave the working clones alone.
Title: Re: CMove clone removing batch file
Post by: JoyMonkey on December 20, 2004, 10:21:59 am
*bump*
Title: Re: CMove clone removing batch file
Post by: Lilwolf on December 20, 2004, 11:25:38 am
many frontends do this.. 

My next version of JFront has removed many features on generic sorting, but I'm working on a program to move roms based on listxml and catver information.  It will look like a FTP program (list on left and list on right... where you can move and copy selected files)... but you can select all clones with one button...

I will look into selecting all clones of non-working parents.  Should be easy to do and be useful...

Currently thought.. it tries to copy all clones (and artwork/chds/ect) around together)... because my frontend keeps track of favorite clone... and defaults to the the highest ranking (based on driver status) child if the parents status are non-good.

Title: Re: CMove clone removing batch file
Post by: JoyMonkey on December 20, 2004, 11:34:48 am
I've been thinking of exactly the same type of application, but my lack of programming skills isn't much help. I started learning VisualBasic with this in mind, but didn't get too far past "Hello World!".
I'm always getting emails asking when I'm going to update the batch files that I make, so an app like this would be really popular (and save me from having to update the bat files all the time  ;)).