Topic: Best Program For Shrinking Files To Ftp? (Read 216 times)

zot23 · « **on:** June 22, 2004, 07:47:00 PM »

Need to shrink a bunch of ROM names to FTP to xbox, is there a preferred program that can do this efficiently and quickly? Want it for HUGO-X, but if there was one that would work for any files, that would be best.

Thanks...

VampX · « **Reply #1 on:** June 22, 2004, 08:15:00 PM »

Goodtools, use the xbox filename shortening option.

zot23 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 23, 2004, 07:12:00 AM »

Perfect! Thanks again Vampx.

zot23 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 24, 2004, 06:52:00 AM »

Used goodtools last night, worked great...

madmab · « **Reply #4 on:** June 24, 2004, 05:03:00 PM »

Any decent renamers for renaming stuff that is not in Goodtools (like Atari ST/Amiga CAPS) stuff?

BLoTt0_AI · « **Reply #5 on:** June 24, 2004, 09:50:00 PM »

"prexboxcopytool" which can be found on this site.

gonkle · « **Reply #6 on:** June 24, 2004, 11:15:00 PM »

for amiga you can use tugid, it can be found on the TOSEC homepage,
there is a ini file where you can define the naming.

madmab · « **Reply #7 on:** June 25, 2004, 02:47:00 AM »

Ok thanks. I forgot to mention I use the Prexboxcopy tool but it tends to really muck up the names making it difficult to figure out what the file is. Especially if it is multi-disk or there are several different versions.

I'll check out this tugid.

madmab · « **Reply #8 on:** June 25, 2004, 04:16:00 AM »

Hmmm looks like tugid is in a complete state of flux.

The tosec site does not even seem to carry it (or much anything, the download section is empty).

Doing a search on yahoo does not reveal the proper version. Best I can tell 3.6.5 is the last working and 3.6.6 (which I can find) is buggy.

Then there is no current .tdb file.

What a headache. Talking about MIA...

desertboy · « **Reply #9 on:** June 25, 2004, 05:29:00 AM »

zot23 · « **Reply #10 on:** June 25, 2004, 06:32:00 AM »

desert-

How does it do that?

zot23 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 25, 2004, 08:43:00 AM »

Is there a goodMAME type program out there? One that would parse a MAME ROM list and break it doen into different folders? If so, what's it called?

Thanks Again...

madmab · « **Reply #12 on:** June 25, 2004, 11:34:00 AM »

gonkle · « **Reply #13 on:** June 25, 2004, 11:51:00 AM »

You can configure the names by hand in the tugid.ini

NameFmt=%n <v%v ><(%d) ><(%y)><(%s)><(%i)><(%c)><(%?)><(%B)>%f<(%m)><(%l)><[%e]>

%? 'PD' if needed
   %b alpha/Beta/proto if needed
   %c Country/lang (one or the other)
   %d 'demo' if needed
   %e Extra info - anything that has not been printed
   %f Flags, currently in [a][c]...
   %i vIdeo mode, rarely used
   %l Label/release info
   %m Media type / parts "Tape 07 of 10 Side A"
   %n Name / title of file
   %p Publisher
   %s Subsystem
   %v Version string
   %y Year of copyright/release
   %% literal '%'

or just zip them into a file that only has the gamename

madmab · « **Reply #14 on:** June 25, 2004, 04:50:00 PM »

Thanks for the info, now I just need to find a place that has version 3.6.5 and a working .tdb file.

The one I found (8 meg in size) does not appear to do anything and gives an error message when I pick "rename/scan" telling me open a folder on the left and select a system. When I select a system right click and pick "rename/scan" it does nothing.

Do I have a bad .tdb file?

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