Sorting Roms

[naborneo]

So since Iâ??ve been working on my arcade project I have obtained A LOT of roms for each console system (NES, SNES, GEN, 32X, CD, Jag, ect...not talking about MAME, but console roms) I have, unforently I have so many roms for each system that it is a pain in the ass to go through them all to find a game I want. The only way I have them sorted is by system. I know itâ??s (mostly) impossible to sort my genre or something but what I would like to do is sort by country. Be able to just see the US games, or just the Jap once, and I think Europe is out there also. In each of the file name there is usually a letter to correspond with the country (i.e. (U) us, (J) Japan, (E) Europe). Is there anyway for GameEX to sort through these letters and sort them into country? And for the time being, dose anyone know a file managing program that might be able to do this for me? Move any files that have (U) in it to another folder (same with (J) and (E)). I would be fine with just the US roms but with 14 DVDs full of roms, I really don't want to go sorting through them.

Side question: I've noticed a lot of the same roms with different ending on them [!], [h1], ect...dose someone know or is there a site out there that explains what means what, and which one is the complete and final rom? Also that might be another good option for sorting... Just a thought

[EMKO]

just open up search and search for files with (U) then drag them to a new folder

also roms with [!] are perfect dumps

[naborneo]

just open up search and search for files with (U) then drag them to a new folder

also roms with [!] are perfect dumps

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ya it dosent get much easier then that...not sure why I didn't think of that.

[djrobx]

The (U) [h1] etc naming convention comes from the "Good" naming utility (e.g., GoodNES, GoodSNES, GoodSMS). If you download the corresponding utility, the readme will explain to you what the codes mean. They're sometimes different for different systems.

[hx] means it's a hack, sometimes to break copy protection.

[bx] means it's a known bad dump

[tx] means it has an added-on trainer (cheat mode)

[ox] means you have a good dump but the file is bigger than it needs to be (overdump)

[a] is alternate, e.g. there are a couple different but good copies of the same game.

[!] means it's VERIFIED good. Roms without are probably not bad either but haven't been verified by other people.