Problem with spectrum roms names

[Evilforces]

Hi all!!!

I have a problem with my spectrum roms set in Gameex. The spectrum roms have a names like grnberet (for the game Green Beret) or similars rare names. When i list the games in Gameex i have the same rare names like the name roms (not the correct names).

There is any way to show the correct names of the roms in Gameex list?

I have another set with the correct names, in example for the game Green Beret i have the name Green Beret (1986)(imagine software). That is the correct name i want to show in gameex list, but the problem is, if i select this correct named set i have the same problem with the snapshots of the games. My spectrum snapshots have the rare names too, and not match with the roms if i select the correct named set folder.

As you see, it's a problem that i can´t solve, i think the only option is to rename manually ALL roms, but i don´t want to do that. I tried the program arwork renamer, but only "translates" a 15% of total snaps names.

There is any solution for that problem?

Thanks in advance and excuse my bad english.

[Lawrence]

I've been working on that for the last few days actually.

I assume, from your description, that you're talking about the GameBase Spectrum set.

I found a nifty program called Sort Pics -- www.sortpics.com. It is shareware -- but the trial version is fully functional with no expiry, just a little nag screen. The great thing about Sort Pics is you can make categories and assign keys to them. So, I took the GameBase Atari 8-bit set of pics and created the categories Boxes, Snaps, and Titles and assigned the keys B, S, and T to them respectively. After doing that it's relatively quick work to sort and separate the messy conbloberation of the GamesBase pics. Then I used a renaming program to strip the underscores from all the files -- from playing around it seems fatmatch doesn't like them. Then I ran the boxes, snaps and titles through fatmatch -- I lowered the matching percentage from the default for this, since the GamesBase names are quite messy. After Fatmatch has matched, you really need to check the matches before allowing Fatmatch to do the actual renaming, as there's a lot more room for error than usual. It works well overall.

I have done the Atari 8-bit and Atari ST this way. I'm going to try out Tempest's new ScreenShot Magician to fill the holes in these to make completish sets. I plan to post the finished sets here for others to use. If you try this on the Spectrum, do please share the results.

Perhaps if a small handful of people joined in we could make usualable artwork sets for most of the old computers from the GameBase sets without too much effort -- there's sets for the CPC, Apple, C64, etc.

I'll try to get my first two sets up later tonight.

[Evilforces]

Hi Lawrence!!! I don't know if my set is from Gamebase.

Your solution is well but i don't need to match the snaps with the game names. The problem is that i have a roms set and a snap set that match correct but they have rare names. I have another spectrum roms set with correct names but the problem is i haven´t the snaps to match with this correct set.

It's necessary to rename all the snaps to mathc correct with the correct roms and i think there is not a program to do that.

The only solution to make that i think is with a database that contain 3 columns (bad named rom, bad named snap and correct rom name), and starting from this make a program to rename line by line the snaps to the correct rom name.

I tried the program artwork renamer (that makes this work well) but only changes a 15% of my snaps names.

You know if there is a database with the bad names of the roms and the correct names?

Your solution I think is only to match 2 similar names of snaps and roms to clear the simbols in their names, but I think is not the solution for the problem I'm talking.

Thanks in advance.