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I have loaded the appropriate romcenter DAT and created the database. I scanned my roms folder and all the zip files are marked grey. I would like to have romcenter rename all of the files to the romcenter format so they will match the no-intro title snap set I have. Clicking fix does nothing as the files are grey.

To better illustrate my request I'd like to have, for instance, Arcana (U) renamed to Arcana (USA) as that will match the title screenshots I have.

I was under the assumption that Romcenter will scan the file in the ZIP, check the CRC against the database and know what that file is supposed to be called then allow me to rename it. I don't understand why this isn't working.

How can I accomplish this?

Thanks!!

You're right, it works like that.

Some ideas:
- are you using zipped roms ? 7zip is not supported
- are you sure you have a snes dat and snes roms ?

Be sure to get the P/Clone XML datafile at no-intro.
Then edit the snes.dat and add the following element in the header tag:
<header>
(current header lines)
<romcenter plugin="snes.dll"/>
</header>
Reload the dat.

I don't know why the no-intro team did not include this plugin in their dat

You, sir, are the man!

The problem is that I was using the DAT file from the no-intro screenshot archive page. That doesn't work. Using the DAT file you recommended worked a treat.

Thanks for your help.

I seem to have spoken too soon. When I said it was working it was but only for my NES files. I re-tried it using the above procedure with my SNES files and I have 3000+ red games. Here is the log:

Open new db
Loading database C:\Users\Public\Documents\romcenter\Datas\Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Parent-Clone (20100213).rdt
Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Parent-Clone (20100213) database version = 3.439
Rom mode : split
Bios mode : split
Sample mode : merged
Plugin : arcade.dll
Import datas from [C:\Users\Me\Desktop\Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Parent-Clone (20100213).dat] to [C:\Users\Public\Documents\romcenter\Datas\Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Parent-Clone (20100213).rdt]
Rom mode : split
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Import datas
Done. 3439 roms added.
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Reindexing.
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Rebuilding and reordering database. Please wait...
Execution time: 0h 0m 18s
Close C:\Users\Public\Documents\romcenter\Datas\Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Parent-Clone (20100213).rdt
Open C:\Users\Public\Documents\romcenter\Datas\Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Parent-Clone (20100213).rdt
Loading database C:\Users\Public\Documents\romcenter\Datas\Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Parent-Clone (20100213).rdt
Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Parent-Clone (20100213) database version = 3.439
Rom mode : split
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Sample mode : merged
Plugin : snes.dll
Loading gameslist
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Query Paths list
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Add new rom path
Add rom path [G:\Games\SNES\]
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Execution time: 0h 1m 12s
Ready

Here is the modified header from the SNES DAT file.

<header>
<name>Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Parent-Clone</name>
<description>Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Parent-Clone</description>
<romcenter plugin="snes.dll"/>
<version>20100213</version>
<date>20100213</date>
<author>kazumi213</author>
<url>www.no-intro.org</url>
</header>

I started to wonder if it was my SNES dumps that were bad (which I know they are not, they all work) so I checked the CRC32 of some of the files and tried to locate them in the DAT file to see if that was the issue. None of them match. I started to doubt myself. So I went ahead and looked at the CRC32 of the NES roms that I just successfully renamed with ROMCenter and none of them match the CRC in the DAT file either. I must have something really wrong here... Maybe I am not calculating the hash correctly? IDK. I'm so confused.

Any ideas?

First, it's normal the crc doesn't match when you use plugin. See here why.

I will try with the same datafile and some snes roms...

All seems fine on my pc. Half of my old snes roms are recognized.

What is the extension of your roms ? Try to unzip one of your folder and refresh it in rc.

Thanks for trying. I just ended up downloading new No-intro sets.