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[namek0]

I have a question concerning Mame roms. Here's the deal:

 I want to go copy as many working roms as possible to my xbox, because I know how many of them do not work either because of age/hardware/emulator/etc. Unable to find a current compatibility list anywhere I thought I could simply go in and delete all roms that were made after 1997 or 1998 or so. This would be a crude workaround, but it would be better than going in and taking out roms one by one by one and so on. I know in Mame itself I can sort by year but I can't seem to do this anywhere where I have the ability to delete/move the files. I've found many auditing programs available, but none seem to let me do this (or I didn't see the option)

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

This post has been edited by namek0: Apr 25 2006, 10:32 PM

[nes6502]

SortInfo (http://hem.passagen.se/robert.palmqvist/) can do this and a lot more.  You can sort on anything.

I sorted first on "game doesn't work" or something. Then I had it generate a batch file that would delete all the games in a folder with those names. I then did "no sound" or something and generated a batch file for that.

When all was said and done I had a nearly perfect working set with all games that didn't work or didn't have sound removed (regardless of year).

You can also filter on Company name. So you could create a folder with all the Capcom games, or all the Neogeo games (usefull for FBA-XXX), Or a folder for Fighting, Horizontal shooters, vertical shooters, etc...

There is a tutorial in the readme file that comes with it that explains how to generate the batch files.

[namek0]

I've been playing with this program off and on all day. I've tried everything, but my listinfo.txt file keeps coming up as blank and 0 bytes. Since I have no list of games, I can't get SortInfo to do anything at all in the mean time. I've tried everything including the following command line code:

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mame32 -listinfo > listinfo.txt

I have my roms in the correct directories, and mame reads/plays them all just fine. I'm so close!

This post has been edited by namek0: Apr 26 2006, 04:41 AM

[nes6502]

type: mame32 -listfull -ll > listinfo.txt

If you download the regular mame and go to the command line and type mame -showinfo
it will tell you all the commands and options. Hope that works

This post has been edited by nes6502: Apr 26 2006, 04:52 AM

[namek0]

Ok, one step further so that's cool. It created a listinfo.txt file, but when imported into SortInfo I am still left with a blank screen. It says "Parsed: 233670 characters, forming 12234 tokens, describing 0 games in 0 ms."

Just to check on the format, here is a snippet of the beginning of my file:

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Name:     Description:
puckman   "PuckMan (Japan set 1, Probably Bootleg)"
puckmana  "PuckMan (Japan set 2)"
puckmanf  "PuckMan (Japan set 1 with speedup hack)"
puckmanh  "Puckman (Falcom?)"
pacman    "Pac-Man (Midway)"
pacmanf   "Pac-Man (Midway, with speedup hack)"

This post has been edited by namek0: Apr 26 2006, 05:02 AM

[namek0]

Nevermind, I got it to work!! Score!

Apparently the "listinfo" command was taken out of the newer version. I just d/l an older one (after a ton of trying other stuff) and it worked perfect the first try. Finally (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)