HyperSpin MAME Renamer

[simmousm]

HyperSpin MAME Renamer

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HyperSpin MAME Renamer is a Windows application that will take a HyperSpin XML file, a MAME softlist XML file, a folder containing ROMs, and multiple artwork folders. It will then use this information to rename the ROMs and artwork files so that they correspond to the MAME short name.

The application works in two stages. When you have entered your file/folder details it will process the data in the two XML files and attempt to automatically map the data. Various options for how data should be mapped are available:

• Automatically map games based on CRC values - When a game has the same CRC value in the HyperSpin database and the MAME XML file then it will be considered a match.
• Automatically map games where the name is an exact match (excluding ROM tags) - If a game cannot be matched by CRC then it will perform a fuzzy name search. If this option is selected then any games with the same name, apart from ROM tags such as (Europe), (USA) etc. will be considered a match.
• Automatically select the best name where no exact match is available - If a game cannot be matched by CRC or exact name then the best match will be automatically selected. This option is off by default.

You will be able to review the mappings on the "Mappings" tab, as well as manually amend the mappings by using the drop-down in the "Map To" column. This games listed in the drop-down are ordered by how close the names match. Note that when a game was matched by CRC only that game will appear in the list since we can be certain we have the right game and therefore don't need to do the fuzzy name search.

Once you are happy with the mappings, click the "Rename" button to proceed. The application will then use the mappings to rename the files. Optionally, the application can also verify that the ROM files match the CRC values in the MAME XML file as part of this process.

The files will be written to the output folder in the following structure:

HyperSpin XML file.xml - A copy of the HyperSpin database file, with the names updated to use the MAME short names and the CRC values updated to those expected by MAME.
- Roms - The ROMs folder will contain the renamed ROMs. These will be automatically put into .zip files so that they can be used with MAME.
- Artwork - This folder will contain sub-folders for each artwork folder you selected. The names of the sub-folders will match the names of the input artwork folders e.g. if you selected C:\Users\Me\Downloads\Artwork4 then you will get a sub-folder called "Artwork4"

Source code to the application is available here: https://github.com/ChrisSimpson/Hyperspin-MAME-Renamer

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• Submitter
  simmousm
• Submitted
  07/17/2017
• Category
  ROM/Database/Renaming tools
• Credits

 

[brentg]

Update for your update

I tried using various diff. romsets.

This time all that happens after it matches is that it deletes the target folder and doesn't perform anything , trying to rerun obv gets the error that target folder doesnt exist

 

"Semi" scratch that error report - further testing showed that for some reason it didn't like me using my softlist from external drive and if I copy it local it works

 

Brent

[Brettley]

Sorry for the noob question, but where can I get the "MAME Softlist XML File" the renamer is looking for?

[sanchezmike01]

Has anyone recently tried this app?.....I'm using win7 and when I map the artwork and roms folder I press start and everything seems to match for items I have... now when I press the rename buttons , all renaming fails and in the comments section it just says no rom file found....am I missing something here?...I map the hyperspin XML and map the softlist xml... for roms folder I map to my roms location  for apple2gs and in the arteork section I map it to all the arteork I have for apple2gs...again nothing gets renamed...thanks in advance for any help and or tips and advice

[what2be]

On 11/4/2019 at 4:47 AM, sanchezmike01 said:

Has anyone recently tried this app?.....I'm using win7 and when I map the artwork and roms folder I press start and everything seems to match for items I have... now when I press the rename buttons , all renaming fails and in the comments section it just says no rom file found....am I missing something here?...I map the hyperspin XML and map the softlist xml... for roms folder I map to my roms location  for apple2gs and in the arteork section I map it to all the arteork I have for apple2gs...again nothing gets renamed...thanks in advance for any help and or tips and advice

Did you ever figure out what the problem was?

[what2be]

I keep getting the message "Could not read the mame xml file. are you sure its valid?"
I created the mamelist.xml file with the command "mame64 -listxml > mamelist.xml" and it looks fine.

Any ideas?