I had a lot of rom sets around but now I want a really clean collection because I am setting up an emulator frontend, but I need some advice:
Game Preferences:
What I want is 1G1R of only real games, regardless of region (e.g. USA if one exists, but if there is only a random Brazilian version of a game, I'll take it because I want one of every real game -- no prototypes, betas, extra versions, hacks, or aftermarket garbage).
Rom Manager:
I want something that will run a comprehensive list of the games I want based on my preferences and show me what I need to fix, get, or delete.
I tried RomVault but the tutorial video seemed complicated and seemed to require me to move all my stuff to specifically named folders, and I want to keep all my stuff on my separate drive the way I have it organized now.
I tried RomManager with the dat from DAT-o-Matic, but it didn't recognize a bunch of games that seem real. I think I accidently deleted some real games by clicking Fix on RomManager, so I don't want that to happen again. Also it says I have a lot of games with Bad Names but it wouldn't rename some of them.
If anyone has a better source for DATs or any general advice on achieving my goal, that would be great.
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You need these two tools, here are videos on how to use them.ClrMAMEPro this will get your set to a 1g1r set. Then you will need the MAME Smart ROM Sorter This will take all the Crap out, and you can even tell the program what controls your using, and it will ONLY keep those games in your romset. Great way to manage your MAME Roms.
Hope this helps.
Thanks Is this just for mame? I want to do that eventually but not this second.
Yes Sir it is limited to mame, I think you can use it for FBN/FBA. But it us Arcades not consoles.
do you recommend a similar program for consoles?
For consoles, Most of the no-intro sets are already broken out really really well.
I've not needed to manage those in an automated way. Sorry.
No hacks ? You're missing out on some really great games, imo !!!
Like, I'm being pedantic here, but does that also include "No Translations" (which are also a type of "hack") ?
That's a good point but I am worried about my main set first. I can always grab a fan translation later if zi really want to play a specific game.
Get the normal dat from no intro or redump depending on the set you have. then use the program "retool". With that tool you can select only the roms how you want it, like you said in the post.
After that you can either use the dat in the program "romcenter" to organize your existing roms or use the dat downloader to only download the roms from myrient that are present in the dat file.