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[Barney_1]

How to rename your files using LInux:  (you should be using LInux you know!)

*****Warning****** Before doing this, make sure there is NOTHING in the folder other than the roms without extensions.  This command will add .smc to EVERYTHING!

1) Open a terminal window and navigate to the folder with the extension-less roms.

2) Make sure you have permission to write to this folder and these files (It is advisable that you change the folder attributes using chmod instead of doing this as root.  You're less likely to screw something important up that way ;-))

3) Use this command:

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ls -d *.php3 | sed 's/\(.*\).php3$/mv "&" "\1.php"/' | sh

4) Wait.  If you have lots of roms this can take some time.

5) When the cursor returns type:

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ls | more

you will see that every rom now has the .smc extensions.  (press 'q' to quit the list)

Enjoy!

[VampX]

Awesome Linux tutorial dude, i noticed one small flaw in your logic though.


People that use Linux are most likely much more advanced in computers then most windows users so i doubt they'd need a faq on renaming files  

[drumstyx]

well firstly....i'd like to say i should have found this earlier...i renamed a full romset manually...somethin like 3000 ...secondly....for linux...yeah i dont see anything that says smc in that....also....couldnt u just do:
mv *. *.smc
dunno....i dont use linux much...but lemme know y it wouldnt work if it wouldnt

but on the plus side...i got to rename all the names i didnt like (roms with (U) and all that junk...yeah i know its organizational.....but i dont like it   )

[Russ15xtreme]

Thank you! You saved my xbox snes emulation life

[[dbx]]

Properties Plus is an easy way to handle file extensions. It just adds an extra properties option in the Explorer right-click context menu.

http://www.softlooku...ay.asp?id=25161

[Mad_Eyes]

Hypothetically speaking, let's say they all came in a .7z format.  Would all the extensions be changed to smc if u typed:

ren *.7z *.smc

[nes6502]

QUOTE(Mad_Eyes @ Jun 22 2007, 08:33 PM)

Hypothetically speaking, let's say they all came in a .7z format.  Would all the extensions be changed to smc if u typed:

ren *.7z *.smc

Technically yes, but the games would not load in any emulator (Xbox or PC). If you did this you would just be changing the extension from 7z to zip. The problem is 7z is allready a compressed format. This thread is about taking "uncompressed" snes roms with no extension and adding one.

7z is a file compression format (like rar or zip). Download 7-zip and extract all the games. This will extract all the games and they will have smc, swc, etc... extensions. If after you extract them, they don't have any extensions, "only then" you would use this tutorial to add smc extensions. At this point you can load them in ZsnexBox or xSnes9x. But the better way would be to compress them in standard zip format. With winrar you can zip up all the games at once but put them in separate zip archives.

So:

1) Extract with 7-zip
2) Add extensions if you need to
3) Zip them all up individually with winrar
4) Run them through a fatx tool to make them Xbox compliant filenames
5) Load them in xSnes9x or ZsnexBox and play

[ressurectionx]

Ahhhhh..... DOS.   A dying artform.

Pretty cool when an old bastard dazzles the n00bs and kiddies with simple tricks that all the dinosaurs used to know.

[VampX]

QUOTE(ressurectionx @ Jun 23 2007, 09:20 AM)

Ahhhhh..... DOS.   A dying artform.

Pretty cool when an old bastard dazzles the n00bs and kiddies with simple tricks that all the dinosaurs used to know.

Back in the day if we didn't know our DOS we would get whipped!!
yessiree, and no Tv either!

[hamisht]

This was of great help, thank you so much.  I almost was about to delete all these roms because they didn't work.

[Koitsu]

If we forget our DOS, then the terrorists win.