It is possible to remove duplicate roms?

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It is possible to remove duplicate roms?

Post by pablo »

Hi, i have 6000 NES roms, but the more of them are duplicates for example

smb.nes
smb[h1].nes
smb[b1].nes
smb[b2].nes
smb[b3].nes


i only want ONE smb rom, and like this with all the games

RomCenter can help me to remove duplicate roms?
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Re: It is possible to remove duplicate roms?

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These are not duplicates, but alternates roms. Files are differents.
If you want to remove them, you can try to find a new dat, or edit your original dat file and remove all games with (hn),(bn)...
or you can filter and remove the files in romcenter: enter [h1] in the search field and remove all files displayed. Repeat for [b1] etc....
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Re: It is possible to remove duplicate roms?

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People, I'd recommend using this photo duplicate remover to deal with unnecessary files on your hard drive. It has many functions, user-friendly interface, safety options and 100% efficiency.
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Re: It is possible to remove duplicate roms?

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This "photo duplicate remover" won't help you with roms. Roms are not photos.
Roms are zipped and some games have several identical roms which should not be removed.
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Re: It is possible to remove duplicate roms?

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I just finished downloaded 1.61 GB worth of snes rom, and i already have about 1.3 gb roms. How can I remove the duplicates. :uh:
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Re: It is possible to remove duplicate roms?

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Split them in several folders
Rename all of them
Put them together
Removing dups
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Re: It is possible to remove duplicate roms?

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Another solution is to use the new 'one game one file' feature. This will remove all clones, keeping only the main games.
To activate, go to preferences/gamesset and select the check box.
All clones will appear as 'unknown'. You can them move them to another location, keeping only one fil eper game.
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