How to delete all CHD-based games/roms? (MAME)

[justintime]

OK, this is driving me crazy! I know its possible, but how?

I am trying to delete all CHD-based games from my MAME roms. under the DataFile listing, I can select "Games with CHDs" which effectively selects all entries on the right. however, you can't delete these 'entries', because they are simply references to the database... What I want to do is select the corresponding ROMS and delete them. How is it done? operations on the Database and the ROMS are not linked, or are they?

Thanks!

[Wanderer]

operations on the Database and the ROMS are not linked, or are they?

As far as i know, no. This may be an interesting wish for RC4 though...

[justintime]

Oh God... RomCenter is the gold standard for stuff like this , no?

OK, I give up. Anyone know of a tool that will allow me to select all specific ROMS and delete (for example, CHD based ROMs...?)

[Wanderer]

Well, perhaps you could try creating (perhaps mame.exe itself provides the necessary switches for it) or finding a datafile that does not contain CHDs and after loading it and adding the rom path, go to it and delete all grey files.