Request: Ability to remove clones of working Parent roms
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:58 pm
First, RomCenter is a great utility. I have found it a great tool.
I have been trying to lower the size of my roms folder. I do not feel the need to have every possible version of every rom. Heck, it is unlikely I will ever play ALL the games playable by mame.
That being said, I have a request that I think many people would be interested in. Many of us would like to remove all redundant roms so we would end up with one playable version of each game. I realize that achieving this goal fully would probably be very complicated.
A great step would be the ability to move all clones of working games. After that step, it would not be too hard to list the clones remaining, select the doubles, and move them.
If there is already a way to do this please let me know! The best I can do so far is move all clones. Then I generated a list of over 600 non-working parents. At this point I would have to search to see if each non-working parent has a clone, check if the clone works, then move the working clone back. This would take a lot of time and effort.
If this request is not feasible please post that.
I have been trying to lower the size of my roms folder. I do not feel the need to have every possible version of every rom. Heck, it is unlikely I will ever play ALL the games playable by mame.
That being said, I have a request that I think many people would be interested in. Many of us would like to remove all redundant roms so we would end up with one playable version of each game. I realize that achieving this goal fully would probably be very complicated.
A great step would be the ability to move all clones of working games. After that step, it would not be too hard to list the clones remaining, select the doubles, and move them.
If there is already a way to do this please let me know! The best I can do so far is move all clones. Then I generated a list of over 600 non-working parents. At this point I would have to search to see if each non-working parent has a clone, check if the clone works, then move the working clone back. This would take a lot of time and effort.
If this request is not feasible please post that.