When a new version of mame comes out, I add it ClrMamePro. So now I have a text file with just the roms I want. Once I had my roms slimmed down, I use a simple BASH command (OS X) or PowerShell command (Windows) to list the rom directory without the extensions) into a text file. (For example, the world version of Double Dragon, ddragonw, not ddragon) Since I used non-merged set, I could be selective on exact version of roms I wanted.
Even if it was non-working, or my current machine wasn't powerful enough, I included the rom set, so in the future I would have it. Like Denzilla, I did the one time approach of manually removing all games I did not want. (I include them so BIOSes don't show up when I'm running MAME directly)
This method relies on romset names being fairly stable and I'm using a non-merged set and bios included in rom sets.
Just bare in mind though that some of those games you have now deleted may get marked as working at some point in the future, and you will now obviously no longer have them, so a really good game may get marked as now working next month, and you will have to try and track down the current version of a specific game, which isnt very easy usually.Īfter spending way too much time keeping my name set complete and getting update packs for each version I started using a simpler approach so I spend more time playing MAME than updating it. I'm glad you found a solution to your issue. This little program have some limitation, like the rom must be in roms folder inside mame folder, otherwise will not be able to manage the roms.īut, with this program in less then 2 minuts i was able to shrink from +80gb to less then 35gb, the 2 romset i have. I found out the only program who do this is a very old program from a italian developer: Specially when mame romset have A LOT of not working rom or stuff you dont really need to play time to time some retrogames. Is insane how a need so simple as delete the not working roms or romns i dont really need, as type/category, is missing, at least in a easy and fast way, in any rom manager for the mame romset.
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