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Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: VampX on June 08, 2005, 02:18:00 PM

Okay we all know how it goes, you download a set of snes roms and xsnes9x doesnt see them,
so upon closer inspection (forum complaining without using the search)
you discover that your roms dont have the smc file extension.

now what you gotta do is you rename them to have smc behind the filename,

and no we are not going to rename them one by one (you gotta be crazy to do that)
and no we are also not going to download a special program that does it for us (lazy bastards)

this example is going to show you how to rename your roms that are in a dir called snesroms located on c:\

now remember that this only renames the unzipped roms, so you might wanna unzip your roms should they be zipped.

you can always rezip them later by using my other guide.

now on with the extension adding!

start up a program called command prompt
it should be right on top of your
if you cant find it its located at c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe (it comes with every version of windows)

now start it and do exactly what i did on the picture below.



here's the same picture but in yellow i wrote an explanation of what i did.


There ya go, all set.

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: edwinmcdunlap on June 09, 2005, 12:34:00 AM

ah, so that's how you mass rename file extensions... I always wondered how to do that!

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: Tasuki on June 09, 2005, 06:29:00 PM

I wish I knew this earlier, I renamed about 100 roms just to add the .smc extension.  :P  At least now I can do it to the rest if I felt like adding more roms to the HD.  Thank you very much.

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: quant1c0n on June 10, 2005, 05:07:00 AM

good guide, dose the file ext. have to be SMC for my emulator to run it?

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: VampX on June 10, 2005, 07:21:00 AM

QUOTE(quant1c0n @ Jun 10 2005, 01:42 PM)

good guide, dose the file ext. have to be SMC for my emulator to run it?

Its advisable.

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: hargle on June 10, 2005, 08:54:00 AM

Heh, I never thought I'd see a tutorial about how to rename some files in DOS!

You young whipper-snappers never had to grow up in the days when DOS is all we had, and we liked it!  (some of us still do-I got my start on DOS 2.1)

Thanks, that was really fun, and now I feel quite old. :P

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: pinkypumper on June 18, 2005, 08:25:00 AM

just a quick question. i have 3 romsets on my pc. when i burn them to disc and play them off the disc they work fine, but when i try to ftp them to the xbox it stops and says some of the file names are too long. how do i fix this "easily"?

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: polarz on June 18, 2005, 10:44:00 AM

pinkypumper -> prexboxcopytool

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: Thraxen on June 18, 2005, 11:27:00 AM

A couple of different ways to do that.  One, you can use the Good Utilities to do that for you with the "forcexbox" command.  Here is a guide here:  Link

The Good Utilites can also be used for other things like auditing your ROMS to tell you what you are missing and it can also be used to sort them out by region, etc...

But if you are really only interested in simply renaming them so you can FTP them to your XBox then I would use a program like PreXBoxCopyTool.  It's super fast and very easy to understand and use.  If you do use it, I recommend setting the "Choose Case" option to  "No Change" and checking the last box at the bottom that says, "If filename is too long remove all spaces before losing characters".

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: pinkypumper on June 18, 2005, 12:56:00 PM

thanks a bunch guys.  
just tried it and got a runtime error 6 overflow?

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: vincent vega on June 20, 2005, 10:20:00 AM

so where can I find that program that does it automatcally ...no just kidding, thanks for the tuturial though.

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: VampX on September 21, 2005, 07:16:00 PM

Ultra Bump

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: Hells Tyrant on May 07, 2006, 05:07:00 PM

Not that there is a poll going on somewhere, but I'd like to throw in my vote for "Best Tutorial I've Ever Friggin Seen"!!!! Seriously, thats just awesome.

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: BrokenArrow on May 15, 2006, 10:05:00 AM

If renaming one by one, why not just:

Open a folder, along the top click "Tools" then "Folder Options", a new window should appear click on the "View" tab look for "Hide extensions for known file types" and disable it (uncheck it). All files should now have the extensions shown. Right click on the file you wish to rename, click on rename and change from beyond the period to smc. Alot easier and less complicated.

This post has been edited by BrokenArrow: May 15 2006, 05:14 PM

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: DagsJT on May 15, 2006, 09:33:00 AM

Interesting guide, thanks

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: Barney_1 on June 07, 2006, 04:36:00 PM

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:

CODE

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:

CODE

ls | more

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

Enjoy!

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: VampX on June 07, 2006, 05:59:00 PM

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  

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: drumstyx on June 15, 2006, 03:35:00 PM

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   )

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: Russ15xtreme on January 11, 2007, 11:23:00 PM

Thank you! You saved my xbox snes emulation life

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: [dbx] on January 12, 2007, 09:37:00 AM

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

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: Mad_Eyes on June 22, 2007, 12:57:00 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

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: nes6502 on June 22, 2007, 01:17:00 PM

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

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: ressurectionx on June 23, 2007, 12:44:00 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.

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: VampX on June 23, 2007, 06:20:00 AM

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!

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: hamisht on November 14, 2011, 05:29:00 PM

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

Title: How To Add The Smc File Extension To Snes Roms
Post by: Koitsu on November 18, 2011, 01:26:00 AM

If we forget our DOS, then the terrorists win.