CLR-Mame-PRo help?

[Methanoid]

I have to confess I find it a PITA but it seems to be pretty much the only game in town for renaming (ok RomCenter). I know this COULD be asked on a CMP forum but I find people here are a helpful bunch and I suspect many have done exactly what I am trying to do!!

Scenario: I have a huge pile of Amiga files - many of which are correctly TOSEC named from previous renamings but a huge amount not checked. All files in SOURCE directory, all files renamed should be moved/zipped

I want to batch run all the renaming/rebuilding and have all the Amiga dats checked and the resulting files in DEST directory in sub directories named after the DAT file that they matched to.

i.e. D:\DEST\Commodore Amiga - Games - [ADF] [TOSEC-v2006-10-19]

Is that do-able without having to load each dat file and wait for it to scan and then load the next and so on?

Could someone give me some pointers on that?

[TCD]

Exactly what you need : http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=42963

[Methanoid]

Doesn't do it... its just same as a the Batch Run facility but chucks all files in one dir

[TCD]

I see the problem. I found this in the ClrMamePro docs :

* "rebuildto"
Here you can specify a new rebuilder destination path
for single sets. For example:

game (
...
rebuildto namco\english
...
)

rebuilds the files of this set to: rebuilderdestinationpath + "namco/english"

This would be exactly what you need. Only problem is that the info has to be added to each game entry, so I will think about a batch way to put the info in the dat files.

[Methanoid]

Amazing.. the German guy understands the English better than the English guy!!!

Thanks, if you can work it out I'd appreciate it. I just started on the first of my 40 odd runs. It seems I was exaggerating. It's only 67000 files it has to scan, 40 times!!

There has to be an easier way

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Methanoid

Thanks, if you can work it out I'd appreciate it. I just started on the first of my 40 odd runs. It seems I was exaggerating. It's only 67000 files it has to scan, 40 times!!

There has to be an easier way

Indeed, there has to be an easier way. Will have a look how to automate the process of adding the path information

[PandMonium]

well if you just don't want to code something or look too much for a solution you could just open each datfile and make a search&replace in each one with the right field you want, its a bit boring since you have to make this x30 dats before join them all in one but is just a couple of minutes.

here is one, just added "rebuildto Commodore\Amiga\Games\[ADF]", don't know if it is this way it works but you just have to test

[Methanoid]

Ah, I see what you mean... lots of potential for cockups tho... it assumes no TOSEC file contains the character "{" for example.

There must be some other way.. CMP has so many options and the Batch process must indicate... Ah, idea... Back in 30 mins

[PandMonium]

no, i just searched by ")" in a single line, the clrmame datfiles are always like:

game (
....
....
....
)

and i just replaced the last line (the one with ")") with:

rebuildto xxxx\yyyyy\zzzzz
)

[Methanoid]

If you select many DAT files at once and select Batch Run there is a Misc tab. I think somewhere in there is an option to rebuild to sub dirs.. if I could find some meaningful docs for CMP