Sorting Roms into Genres

Tech Talk
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I prefer having roms sorted by genre. That way I can think ‘shooter’ rather than ‘Truxton.’ I can easily filter out sports games so I don’t have to scroll past NFL 1947 - 1996. It also makes it easier to discover new games I haven’t played before.

I couldn’t find any automated tools to do this. So I put some together. These are small bat files that work with extracted GoodTools romsets. Put them in your rom directory and run them.

NES - http://srktt.com/files/nesgenre.bat
SNES - http://srktt.com/files/snesgenre.bat
Genesis - http://srktt.com/files/gengenre.bat
Master System - http://srktt.com/files/smsgenre.bat
PC Engine - http://srktt.com/files/pcegenre.bat

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Have you considered using a manager like clrmamepro? Someone did on another forum I use that to easily turn rom collections into sets for flashcarts

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That will work for MAME.

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It works for Any romset actually - no-intro and such have DAT files prepared for it, for their various collections.

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Sorry, I mean to give you genre. The No-Intro NES data files have entries that look like this:

game (
name "Contra (USA)"
description "Contra (USA)"
rom ( name “Contra (USA).nes” size 131072 crc F6035030 md5 5A5C2F4F1CAFB1F55A8DC0D5AD4550E5 sha1 979494E7869AC7AB4815FDBD1DC99F893F713FBF )
)

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You can set it up to do folders - He has ones set up for each letter, bad dumps, lightgun (on nes), etc.

http://krikzz.com/forum/index.php?topic=825.0 is one example

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I apologize for bringing up this topic, but the .bat to organize the Sega Genesis romset is no longer available for download. Could you send it back?
Thank you very much.

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Please don’t bump 4 year old threads asking to reup old downloads.
There a number of reasons for this, often it’s because the project could be dead or abandoned.

Also I can’t go though the specifics HERE (in SRK) with Roms because of reasons, but Roms changed ALOT in the last 4 years.

OP haven’t been active on the forums in like 5 months.

Kay, thanks.

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Okay, sorry for the inconvenience.