PowerGod
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I have this situation, different folders with roms for different MAME versions/forks, and so, most of them contains duplicated games. (I'm not referring about clones, but exactly the same game)
I want to be able to have a folder with all the games playable with my preferred MAME version, and remove those games from the other folders, so to leave to the other emulators only the games that doesn't work in the first one.
The problem is, I can't just compare file names... because the zipped files are different from a folder to another for different reasons:
1) for an emu the zip can contain only one game, for another the same named zip can contain also the clones, etc...
2) the same game rom can have different names from one MAME version/fork to another...
So, I suppose the only way to compare the folders is to use the XML files (with hashes) of the respective emulators, almost like a rom manager program does to audit them... and it's not a so straightforward thing to do by hand...
Do you know about some program that is able to do this ?
(By the way, with "forks" I mean emulators like FBA, GnGEO, etc... that uses the same kind of roms)
I want to be able to have a folder with all the games playable with my preferred MAME version, and remove those games from the other folders, so to leave to the other emulators only the games that doesn't work in the first one.
The problem is, I can't just compare file names... because the zipped files are different from a folder to another for different reasons:
1) for an emu the zip can contain only one game, for another the same named zip can contain also the clones, etc...
2) the same game rom can have different names from one MAME version/fork to another...
So, I suppose the only way to compare the folders is to use the XML files (with hashes) of the respective emulators, almost like a rom manager program does to audit them... and it's not a so straightforward thing to do by hand...
Do you know about some program that is able to do this ?
(By the way, with "forks" I mean emulators like FBA, GnGEO, etc... that uses the same kind of roms)
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