batch file - get rid of the cr*p

[rayman]

Hey all. Well here it is - working on stuffing a comp in a atari 2600 and i have a small hard drive - need space! i need a batch file to remove games ive deleted and dont have a clue how to create it any help would be nice. Also this may be a nice option to add...

[greatflash]

Hey all. Well here it is - working on stuffing a comp in a atari 2600 and i have a small hard drive - need space! i need a batch file to remove games ive deleted and dont have a clue how to create it any help would be nice. Also this may be a nice option to add...

Swear word has been censored by the newly founded "GameEx Anti-Curse Committee"

Can't you not delete the games manually from your rom directories.

There were some dat files released on this forum that reduced some sets (snes, etc) to the english only and removed hacks. I cannot find them at the moment but perhaps someone will provide a link?

You could do a search in your rom directories for "[hack]" and delete the results, also (hack), (pd), (jap), (j), (de), etc and delete the results also. If you do not wish to have hacks and foreign language games. This relies on your roms being correctly named though.

[bkenobi]

What do you mean exactly by "games ive deleted"? If you deleted them from the HDD, then they are already gone, so that must not be the problem. If you are deleting them from the GameEx list, then they shouldn't show up if they aren't physically there. I guess I don't know what you need scripted so I don't know how to help...

[greatflash]

What do you mean exactly by "games ive deleted"? If you deleted them from the HDD, then they are already gone, so that must not be the problem. If you are deleting them from the GameEx list, then they shouldn't show up if they aren't physically there. I guess I don't know what you need scripted so I don't know how to help...

I think the upshot is that he has deleted the games he does not want from gameex and realised that they are still present on the hd and hopes for a script to look at what has been deleted (flagged) in gameex and remove them from the directories.

I think....

[Tempest]

If that's the case, and you want to move the roms that are in the GameEx filter these roms line:

1. Copy and paste the list into notepad, and save the file as move.txt

2. Put the attached Rommove.exe, and the move.txt file into the same folder as your roms

3. Double click Rommove.exe, and the roms you want to keep will be moved into a Temp folder in your roms Directory

This isn't fussy about extensions, so if you want to move the artwork with the same name, repeat steps 2 and 3 in your artwork folders.

The script:

FileCreateDir, Temp
Loop, Read, Move.txt
{
 Loop, parse, A_LoopReadLine, `;
 {
   IfExist, %A_LoopField%.*
   {
	 FileMove, %A_LoopField%.* , Temp\
   }
 }
}

RomMove.7z

[rayman]

Hey all, sorry for the curse word and the vague post - too many eggnogs.

What i was trying to say was i was looking for a script to extract files from my rom directory and place them in another location.

Lets say i have 800 games, and i want to just have 100 show up in gameex, i dont want to have to go through and delete 700 of them. What i would like to do is delete the ones i want (100 games), then run that list against my rom folder (800 games). Then extract those 100 games to another folder, then use those in gameex. To me it would seem alot easier to do it that way than to delete 700 games in gameex.

I hope this makes better sense, and if anyone knows of an easier way please let me know.

Hey Tempest, thanks for trying - but its not quite what i was looking for.

[Lawrence]

I think the program "Ungoodmerge" might be what you're looking for:

http://www.allgoodthings.us/mambo/index.ph...848&catid=8

With Ungoodmerge you set the criteria for what you want and it will filter your sets, so that only the best version (for you) of each game is left. Works quite well.

Another alternative is using Goodmerge:

http://goodmerge.sourceforge.net/About.php

This one will 7z together all similar roms into one file. GameEx supports this. This will also create very clean lists (only one file in the list for each game), but when you go into the info page for the game in GameEx it will show all the variants. Personally this is what I use, but I have use for the alternate versions -- my wife and daughter are Japanese, so I want to have English and Japanese versions of each game.

Don't worry too much about the "Good" in the names of both programs -- both work just fine with No-Intro and Tosec as well.

[Tempest]

I updated my previous post...

[bkenobi]

I think you are making this too complicated. What I think you are trying to do is tag the games you want with the GameEx delete function and then take that list, with the aid of a script, and copy/move the desired games to another location. I didn't look at Tempest's script, but all it needs to do is run through your list of filtered roms and one-by-one copy/move them to the new location. This is pretty simple. I think that's what Tempest just wrote for you. If not, I can modify his script to do it.

[Tempest]

Yep, that's what it does. I suppose I could have read them from the gameex.ini, but I asked him to copy the list to a text file instead...

[bkenobi]

Yup, that's the easiest way. No sense in coding a parsing routine to look through the entire GameEx.ini file when you can just copy it to another file. Cool beans!

[Tempest]

Check out: IniRead, IniWrite, IniDelete...

[bkenobi]

Nice!