GoodNES, sort by mapper

GoodNES, sort by mapper
by oRBIT2002 on 2010-04-16 (#60089)

I'm a newbie with GoodNES, but I've learned it can sort ROMs into folders by mappernumber. However I've no clue how to do that. The including documentation mentions "dirs[m][dh]" but I don't get how it should be used since it refuses everything I try.
Hints anyone?

Thanks in advance.

by Memblers on 2010-04-16 (#60097)

I remember using a program called nestoy to do that, I haven't needed to use either program in years, but it would be interesting to know if that can be done in GoodNES as well.

by Dwedit on 2010-04-16 (#60103)

This is really easy to do in about 20 lines of C#.

by peppers on 2010-04-16 (#60106)

Enter "dirsmd" or "dirsmh" and that will do it, dirsmd will sort by the GoodNES mapper database and dirsmh with sort by iNES header's mapper number. Use in place of the regular dirs command

by kyuusaku on 2010-04-16 (#60112)

As an exercise I wrote ze Python (stupid unformatted input took some research...)
Code:
import os
romz = []
for root, dirs, files in os.walk('.'):
for fn in files:
if fn.lower().endswith('.nes'):
romz.append(os.path.join(root,fn))
for path in romz:
fh = open(path, 'rb')
header = fh.read(16).encode('hex') # nibbles
fh.close()
mapper = (int(header[14]) * 2) | int(header[12])
mapdir = os.path.join('.',str(mapper))
if not os.path.exists(mapdir):
os.mkdir(mapdir)
os.rename(path, os.path.join(mapdir,os.path.split(path)[1]))

by oRBIT2002 on 2010-04-17 (#60122)

peppers wrote:
Enter "dirsmd" or "dirsmh" and that will do it, dirsmd will sort by the GoodNES mapper database and dirsmh with sort by iNES header's mapper number. Use in place of the regular dirs command

Tried that, but it refused to work. It just gave me a list of the options again.
Someone should rewrite those old tools with GUI's instead and make them *alot* more userfriendly.

by tepples on 2010-04-17 (#60123)

oRBIT2002 wrote:
Someone should rewrite those old tools with GUI's instead and make them *alot* more userfriendly.

It doesn't take a rewrite to add a GUI, just a front-end. If you start with a command-line program, someone can always write a GUI wrapper that scripts it. The other way around is harder. (ObNES: That's why I prefer command-line image data converters, because GNU Make can see what files are changed and automatically run the converter again.)

by peppers on 2010-04-17 (#60124)

oRBIT2002 wrote:
Tried that, but it refused to work. It just gave me a list of the options again.
Someone should rewrite those old tools with GUI's instead and make them *alot* more userfriendly.

Here I'll make is easy for you. "move" can be swapped out with any of the commands listed first.
Code:
goodnes move dirsmd