RomSetManager

Manage all your retro-roms.

NOTE If you find any bugs or something that should work another way please open an issue-report.

What is it about:

If you have tons of roms lying around on your computer and these roms are named like

Adventures of Batman and Robin, The (U) [f1+2C].gen
Adventures of Batman and Robin, The (E) [!].gen
Adventures of Batman and Robin, The (U) [b2].gen
Adventures of Batman and Robin, The (U) [p1][!].gen
Altered Beast (UE) (REV02) [T+Por_Son_Car].gen

and you just don't know what all these chryptic names stands for

and you just want the best of these games filtered in an clean directory,

you probably need a tool like this ;)

Future plans (what I would like to add when I find some time)

• Predefined List for BestOf, Categories (like lightguns, jump'n'run): Export roms by these list with one click
• Filter old-room-theme files (videos) for only games you really have to save space on your raspberrypi.
• ...feel free to post what you like

How to use it:

1. Download the latest version of this tool an extract it to any directory

Download latest

- If you have trouble starting the application: right click the zip-file and unblock the file. After that unzip the file.

2. Start

RomSetManager.exe

3. Choose the directories

Source Rom Directory

Choose your Directory where all your roms are located. This directory has to have the same structure as retropie like

Output Rom Directory

Choose an empty directory where all the modified roms will saved to.

CLONE DIRECTORY-STRUCTURE FROM RETROPIE

if you have not this source-directory-structure you can copy it (just the folder) from your retropie by clicking this button. After that you should copy your roms in the correct system-subdir.

4. Set your preferences

Here you can choose your preferences to find the correct rom-files if you have multiple of the same game

FAVORITE

Add here your favorite items. If more than one rom-files of the same game is present in your folder it looks for the best match, starting from #1 (most important)

DONT CARE

Add here your items you don't care about.

MUST HAVES

Add here your items your rom-name HAS TO HAVE. If these items doesn't appear in your rom-file-name the get ignored.

NEVER USE

All roms with these items in their name will get ignored because you never want these. In my case I only want english and german-roms because I'm not interessted in other langugages. So I simply add all these langauges here.

Ignore if only one rom-file of a game exist

For the grids NEVER USE and MUST HAVES you can set this option. If only one rom-file of a game is available it will igore these settings.

Moving items

you can simply move items from one grid to another by selecting the rows and click the button where these items should go to.

4. Read in your rom-directory

This will read all your rom-files from the defined source-rom-directory. If the files are compressed (7z,zip,rar,..) it will automatically read the files contained in this file.

5. Wipe rom-file-names

This will wipe all rom-files and uses your preferences to find the best match roms.

6. Export to destination-directory

Exports all wiped rom-files to the destination-directory. It will always create a subdirectory for each system. If the system needs the rom-files compressed it will leave the file compressed.

Configuration.xml

All of your settings are stored in the configuration.xml file.

Used Libraries

Package	Name	Description	License
github.com/Caliburn-Micro/Caliburn.Micro	Caliburn.Micro	MVVM Framework	MIT
github.com/adamhathcock/sharpcompress	SharpCompress	Handling compressed files	MIT
github.com/charri/Font-Awesome-WPF	FontAwesome.WPF	Awesome fonts	MIT
github.com/MahApps/MahApps.Metro	MahApps.Metro	Ui-Theming	MIT