As per the title, i have a ROM collection with about 4000 games on it, virtually all of them play fine which is great, i thought this would be a huge headache but thankfully not, but the collection is just ridiculous.i mean who needs 20-30 different versions of Streetfighter? I've checked out a Mac version of Clrmamepro which i just cannot get my head around, all i want to do is somehow filter out all the duplicates and foreign ROMS that i'll never need to make the collection more manageable.all the guides i can find for this software seem to be aimed at converting the ROMS so they work with different emulators, but I'm not interested in that as they all seem to work fine. If anyone has any suggestions for better software, or maybe a guide that would be more geared towards removing duplicates and foreign games that would be perfect. I have been working on a ROM manager called to run on a retropi. It is very alpha.
Basically, you run the app (a server) and point it to a folder of all roms and a folder for enabled roms. Then in the UI you can sort and filter that list and enable or disable roms as needed. Enabling a ROM creates a symlink from the available folder to the enabled folder.
Disabling deletes the symlink. Fyi, this is sort of the first announcement of Romen, so please don't expect much.
RetroPie Project Documentation. The Apple Macintosh, later renamed the Macintosh 128K, was a personal computer released in 1984. Connect to your RetroPie and browse to its roms folder for reference on how each system folder is named. Either copy these folders to your networked server or manually create the folders on your networked server using the same directory names.
And let me know if you have questions. Sorry to be a pain but is there anyway you can build this for Pi1 (armv6l)? I run my ROMS from a samba share (which runs on pi1) and the only way i can see this will work is to run romen on that machine and then mount the 'enabled-roms' folder via samba on my retropie as normal.thats unless I'm missing something? I did try to build it for Pi1 myself but I'm getting all sorts of errors (probably from missing packages) Thanks for your work on this btw.(someone is bound to request it for Pi1 eventually anyway:p). OK, here you go! I will write up some more proper docs with examples, but the high level is, with samba, Romen can run on any computer that has the samba share, since any filesystem changes will be seen across the share.
Beyond that, you need 2 folders, on the RetroPi, there is a /home/RetroPi/roms folder which has directories for nes, snes, etc. So, if you rename roms to available-roms and create a new empty roms folder, then start Roman with romen -enabled-path /home/RetroPi/roms -available-path /home/RetroPi/available-roms And change any paths to match your system, especially if you run this not on the Pi, but a different computer with access to the samba share. Oh, also back stuff up and test first! I haven't tested Romen with samba and I would not want to cause you to lose any roms. Good luck.
That's cool buddy, no rush.just thought I'd keep you informed on what I discovered. I tried to extend the list to 50 and it still limits me to 10 roms, in fact it'll only let me select from the first 10 in the list, e.g., if I don't select any of the first 10 and then select from 11 onwards, no roms get enabled, the interface says they're enabled but no more roms are created in the enabled folder.hopefully it's something simple as it's creating and deleting the first 10 roms just fine, as long as I want to select some variant of 1942:p. Unfortunately, I don't believe you'll be able to find a Mac-based ROM organizer with the features you require. Times like this make me glad I'm a Windows user since I know many programs I use are Windows-exclusive, but I do sympathize with you and your lack of anything to accomplish your goal. I use ROMLister, but I know I should learn how to use ROMCenter due to the fact the latter is in active development, with less bugs and more features. I'm working on something simple for newbs/noobs right now regarding arcade games, but I believe it might help you as well, though my unfamiliarity with Mac would make what I'm doing hard to transfer over. If you wish, I can keep you in mind when/if my project is finished.
A Non-Merged ROM Set is setup so that almost every file every game needs is included in each ZIP, which eliminates MAME's/FBA's space saving, but sorting unfriendly archival method of Parents and Children A Split ROM Set has only the Parent with all the files it needs to run, while the Child can't run if the Parent isn't also in the same folder. If you are familiar for PC gaming, especially Skyrim, then think of the Parent as the Base game and the Child as a Mod; not exactly accurate due to the fact each Child contains Alternate or/and Additional files that are loaded in-place or/and alongside the ones in the Parent, but close enough. What I've done was download the Non-Merged sets for FBA (I running an older version of RPi so my file set is.38 or.39, Mame2k3 and Mame 2k10. My process is long and very hands on but t he results are exactly what I am looking for. I manually sort though all of those files and add the games I want 1 by 1.
I'd say for Arcade, overall including Neo Geo as well, I have about 120 ROMs. This was done before I even thought about a program doing it for me. Lol The issue you run into there is just the unknown.
Games you literally don't even know about. For that I just Googled 'Must play Arcade Games' or on this sub there have been a few threads similar.