Merge Sets with differently named ROMs

[Tumpulele]

Hi all,

I've been working on setting up JNES with GameEx the past couple days and I keep questioning the way I have everything configured. I'm using the no-intro ROM sets, and while some ROM sets seem easier to work with, others (like the NES one) have a lot of repeats, revisions, etc.

What I had decided to do was simply go with a USA set, which I got pretty easily by taking every file with (USA) in the filename, deleting everything else, and manually sifting through the list to delete duplicates and revisions. This cut out about 70% of the ROMs from the no-intro set, and it looks pretty clean. However, I feel going this route will lead me to miss out on some good games--European releases, as well as Japanese releases that don't really require an understanding on the Japanese language (there seem to be a fair bit of those on older consoles, after all.)

Looking through the advanced emulator settings, I noticed the merge sets option and tried it out. I think using this option is kind of the best of both worlds--it helps keep the game list clean while still maintaining the integrity of the ROM set. However, I am wondering if there is a way to account for games from different regions that might have the same name. Examples of this are Little Samson (US) and Seirei Densetsu Lickle (Japan), Hudson's Adventure Island (US) and Adventure Island Classic (Europe), and so on. It would be a lot of work to clean that up if there isn't a way to automate it, so if there isn't I will probably just stick with the clean USA set.

An alternative option I was considering was to set JNES up multiple times pointing to different ROM paths, where one would point to the USA set and the other to an International' set that basically contains Japan/Europe releases. I could use this in tandem with Merge Sets to avoid having to clean up multiple versions/revision and that would enable me to have a clean set to use in most instances while still maintaining access to games from other regions.

Any advice on these items would be appreciated.

[DazzleHP]

Hi there Tumpulele,

I can understand your reasoning, and in fact i chose the same route in the beginning, before i discovered GameEx's Filters

GameEx's filters allow you to specify what is shown from a set/folder that you choose, all you need to do is learn how it works The fact you are using No-Intro Sets makes it much much easier

Firstly, you can find the filter in: Setup Wizard> Emulator Setup> Rom Filter

Secondly get to know the "wildcard" ( this symbol: * ). The wildcard means "anything", it is not specific, it can be literally anything.

The filter works like this: anything to the right of the symbol (*) that doesn't match, will NOT be displayed, or in other words, everything that DOES match will be.

Confused? It's understandable So i'll use an example.

You have a folder/directory that contains both GameCube images (.gcm) and NES images/roms (.nes). You setup a NES Emulator and only want NES roms to show (without moving any files). The NES extention is .nes, so in the filter you add *.nes. This tells GameEx to only display files that ends in .nes (the gamecube games will be invisible). Likewise, if you put *.gcm in the filter, it will only show GameCube games, even though you have both NES and GameCube games in the same folder. No need to move anything

You can extend these filters quite gracefully, but i don't like to bombard people with info to start with