Renaming ECM Files

[TheMadHatter]

So I am hoping some of you experts can make this easier on me than I anticipate it will be.

I am currently reorganizing my PS1 set up. Cleaning up some games I don't want like all the demos and crap. But I also noticed I had to rename a lot of them as well. And most were easy because they were .bin and .cue files.
 

- Extract rar with whichever program the file was originated with 7z or winrar
- Rename CUE and BIN to match HyperSpin Database name
- Open CUE and rename the Fine Name"" to match Database
- Select all files and compress using same program the file was originated with 7z or winrar
Easy enough after u know where to look to change stuff.

But now I'm adding like a couple more games that were missing from my set and some of them are ECM Files.

and the ECM Files are named different and File Name in "" in the .CUE file still says .bin Binary? But if I make it look exactly like I did the with renaming the ECM the same as the BIN files it doesnt work the same so I am checking if there is a reason ECM doesnt work the same as BIN maybe I need to name it different? Checking to see if any of you may know.

[badboo]

Ok I think I got what you are trying to explain, then you could try this:

- extract all of compressed roms, which you are doing., and I assume you are going to put in a folder, all the roms you want to rename and work on.

-Put away all the cue files (you wont need them)..... then rename the iso/emc or whatever rom format you have with the toolrenamer.

-Use this batch to create the cue files:

@echo off
cls
set extension_origen=bin
set extension_final=cue

FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims='.'" %%l IN ('dir /b *.%extension_origen%') DO (
	@echo FILE "%%l.%extension_origen%" BINARY > %%l.%extension_final%
	@echo  TRACK 01 MODE2/2352 >> %%l.%extension_final%
	@echo    INDEX 01 00:00:00 >> %%l.%extension_final%
	)

Just put it in the folder where you have all these roms and it will only take you one second to create all the cue files. You may need to edit the batch file by changing the bin to whatever format you are using... it is ECM, right?

-then, go to this link and use the batch to compress all the roms to 7z. You will find 3 or 4 different types of batch in there, just use the appropriate one.

Useful Windows Batch Files to zip up Roms and other tasks

[TheMadHatter]

So when i extract the rar. I get a CUE and an ECM. so i then have to extract the ECM as well? and then ill get a BIN? and i didnt know there were even programs out there that renamed for you lol i did over like 400 ps1 games manually but they were all BIN and CUE when extracted and they were easy. Its these one off games that are throwing me off.

[badboo]

I am not familiar with ECM files, maybe Agent 47 has a point. 

But anyway, lets stick to the plan lol. Probably you have cue/ecm files inside the rar. So  yeah, unzip them all. But I would recommend to try first with 5 roms or whatever you feel like, just to test if it is working for you.

Then delete or move away those cue files, as they will be useless. 

Then use don'd renaming tool. You can find it in this forum.... yeah, it suck you had to do it manually. Happened to me too once lol

when you have all of then renamed, use the batch I gave you above, to create the cue file for each rom. So you won't need to do it one by one.

I am not sure if you have to decompress those ecm. I no nothing about them, but I can tell you that those bin roms, will need  the cue files.

 

[TheMadHatter]

4 minutes ago, badboo said:

Ok I think I got what you are trying to explain, then you could try this:

- extract all of compressed roms, which you are doing., and I assume you are going to put in a folder, all the roms you want to rename and work on.

-Put away all the cue files (you wont need them)..... then rename the iso/emc or whatever rom format you have with the toolrenamer.

-Use this batch to create the cue files:

@echo off
cls
set extension_origen=bin
set extension_final=cue

FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims='.'" %%l IN ('dir /b *.%extension_origen%') DO (
	@echo FILE "%%l.%extension_origen%" BINARY > %%l.%extension_final%
	@echo  TRACK 01 MODE2/2352 >> %%l.%extension_final%
	@echo    INDEX 01 00:00:00 >> %%l.%extension_final%
	)

Just put it in the folder where you have all these roms and it will only take you one second to create all the cue files. You may need to edit the batch file by changing the bin to whatever format you are using... it is ECM, right?

-then, go to this link and use the batch to compress all the roms to 7z. You will find 3 or 4 different types of batch in there, just use the appropriate one.

Useful Windows Batch Files to zip up Roms and other tasks

I do have a separate folder with the games I am working on renaming. 

Ive never used the "toolrenamer" so that party confuses me a little. This is step for step what ive been doing until i run into ECM File.

- Find Isos that don't match HyperSpin Databases current XML list and put them in separate folder.

- Find the ones that are just named wrong and put those specific ones in a "Rename Folder" (Example: WarCraft II - The Dark Saga (USA) (v1.1)) - the (v1.1) is not on the xml so i wanted to remove it to match.

- Extract them using 7z (because my whole pack all of them used 7z not winrar)

- Most games I extracted had 2 files in them unless they had multiple tracks in them but for the sake of this example we will say there were 2 files. 

2 Files looked like this ( WarCraft II - The Dark Saga (USA) (v1.1) and WarCraft II - The Dark Saga (USA) (v1.1) One was a CUE and one was a BIN file)

Also inside the CUE file was this:

FILE "WarCraft II - The Dark Saga (USA) (v1.1).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 01 MODE2/2352
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

 

- So I renamed the BIN and CUE making them both look like this "WarCraft II - The Dark Saga (USA)" because it matches the XML spelling for that game.

And also changed inside the CUE file to look like this:

FILE "WarCraft II - The Dark Saga (USA).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 01 MODE2/2352
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

Then selected all the files and compressed them with 7z using the same name for the rar as the Database as well. So now I have a compressed file named "WarCraft II - The Dark Saga (USA)" and put that file with the rest of my games and test it out in my system and it runs just fine.

[TheMadHatter]

10 minutes ago, badboo said:

I am not familiar with ECM files, maybe Agent 47 has a point. 

But anyway, lets stick to the plan lol. Probably you have cue/ecm files inside the rar. So  yeah, unzip them all. But I would recommend to try first with 5 roms or whatever you feel like, just to test if it is working for you.

Then delete or move away those cue files, as they will be useless. 

Then use don'd renaming tool. You can find it in this forum.... yeah, it suck you had to do it manually. Happened to me too once lol

when you have all of then renamed, use the batch I gave you above, to create the cue file for each rom. So you won't need to do it one by one.

I am not sure if you have to decompress those ecm. I no nothing about them, but I can tell you that those bin roms, will need  the cue files.

 

ok so I need to figure out how to use Don'd renaming tool then lol. Becasue that is new to me and if i learn that then this might be a lot easier. Is there a good guide on how to use that tool? like a Tutorial video or a thread?

[badboo]

5 minutes ago, TheMadHatter said:

I do have a separate folder with the games I am working on renaming. 

Ive never used the "toolrenamer" so that party confuses me a little. This is step for step what ive been doing until i run into ECM File.

- Find Isos that don't match HyperSpin Databases current XML list and put them in separate folder.

- Find the ones that are just named wrong and put those specific ones in a "Rename Folder" (Example: WarCraft II - The Dark Saga (USA) (v1.1)) - the (v1.1) is not on the xml so i wanted to remove it to match.

- Extract them using 7z (because my whole pack all of them used 7z not winrar)

- Most games I extracted had 2 files in them unless they had multiple tracks in them but for the sake of this example we will say there were 2 files. 

2 Files looked like this ( WarCraft II - The Dark Saga (USA) (v1.1) and WarCraft II - The Dark Saga (USA) (v1.1) One was a CUE and one was a BIN file)

Also inside the CUE file was this:

FILE "WarCraft II - The Dark Saga (USA) (v1.1).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 01 MODE2/2352
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

 

- So I renamed the BIN and CUE making them both look like this "WarCraft II - The Dark Saga (USA)" because it matches the XML spelling for that game.

And also changed inside the CUE file to look like this:

FILE "WarCraft II - The Dark Saga (USA).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 01 MODE2/2352
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

Then selected all the files and compressed them with 7z using the same name for the rar as the Database as well. So now I have a compressed file named "WarCraft II - The Dark Saga (USA)" and put that file with the rest of my games and test it out in my system and it runs just fine.

Yes, all of this you just explained, you can do it in a few steps by using the don renamer tool, then the batch I gave you for the cue files.... and finally if you want to zip them back, go to the page I gave you to use another batch to zip all your roms.

[badboo]

9 minutes ago, TheMadHatter said:

ok so I need to figure out how to use Don'd renaming tool then lol. Becasue that is new to me and if i learn that then this might be a lot easier. Is there a good guide on how to use that tool? like a Tutorial video or a thread?

I think there is one, but it is pretty straight forward, just follow this:

-add xml

-add folder roms

-uncheck CRC scan

-SCAN

-You may need to match some names manually

-rename roms by "moving roms" option, which is faster