Problems.. with Rom Loads.

RiDsTaR · Post by **RiDsTaR** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:42 am

Ok I have alot of roms and it seems that ZSNES cant handle it, it loads some roms but scambles the rest and it appears to be all buggy does anyone know how to fix this problem?

whicker · Post by **whicker** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:28 am

Scan and rename your roms with NSRT or GoodSNES. The ones with bad checksums are bad copies, and you should get rid of them.

Bacon · Post by **Bacon** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:45 am

whicker wrote:Scan and rename your roms with NSRT or GoodSNES. The ones with bad checksums are bad copies, and you should get rid of them.

That isnt what he is referring to, I have the same problem, if you have too many roms in the same folder zsnes sometimes scrambles the name of the roms, my solution was to sort them A-Z in folders, hope tis helps.

RiDsTaR · Post by **RiDsTaR** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:46 am

Is there a easy way to sort them in Alphabet order by folders, I mean I have 11k roms it's gonna take forever to sort them.

Post by **Nach** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:01 am

RiDsTaR wrote:I mean I have 11k roms

If those are all for SNES, you sir have issues.

whicker · Post by **whicker** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:49 am

Either way, he should get rid of the bad roms / hacks / dupes.

It's probably hell just to find the same game to play again after saving...

Post by **Agozer** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:04 pm

It would be great if you'd just keep the [!] ones and get rid of everything else.

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:55 pm

You know it wouldnt take too long for NSRT to actually rename them right, and sort them by region into their own folders.

ZSNES is not the only program that has trouble trying to display a directory of over 11000 files. I have the MAME 0.86 romset complete, and it crashes explorer.exe every time I open the folder to delete\replace something in there.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:33 pm

* The Giver Whistles

http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/viewtopic ... nsrt#71761

hydr0x · Post by **hydr0x** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:38 pm

SquareHead wrote:You know it wouldnt take too long for NSRT to actually rename them right, and sort them by region into their own folders.

ZSNES is not the only program that has trouble trying to display a directory of over 11000 files. I have the MAME 0.86 romset complete, and it crashes explorer.exe every time I open the folder to delete\replace something in there.

not too burst your buble, but this happens with the full NSRT set too, that's already too many files (at least for my 512MB RAM if that has anything to do with it)

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 9:00 am

hydr0x wrote:
SquareHead wrote:You know it wouldnt take too long for NSRT to actually rename them right, and sort them by region into their own folders.

ZSNES is not the only program that has trouble trying to display a directory of over 11000 files. I have the MAME 0.86 romset complete, and it crashes explorer.exe every time I open the folder to delete\replace something in there.
not too burst your buble, but this happens with the full NSRT set too, that's already too many files (at least for my 512MB RAM if that has anything to do with it)

Forgive my ignorance, but I am not quite sure what youre talking about, unless youre using the front end. That I don't use at all as its much faster to have command line NSRT rename and sort by region

Example:

windows/dos
NSRT -rename -sort region c:\roms\*.*

or linux
./NSRT -rename -sort region \home\squarehead\roms\*

Those usually work for me.

Post by **Nach** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 6:10 pm

SquareHead wrote:
hydr0x wrote:
SquareHead wrote:You know it wouldnt take too long for NSRT to actually rename them right, and sort them by region into their own folders.

ZSNES is not the only program that has trouble trying to display a directory of over 11000 files. I have the MAME 0.86 romset complete, and it crashes explorer.exe every time I open the folder to delete\replace something in there.
not too burst your buble, but this happens with the full NSRT set too, that's already too many files (at least for my 512MB RAM if that has anything to do with it)
Forgive my ignorance, but I am not quite sure what youre talking about, unless youre using the front end. That I don't use at all as its much faster to have command line NSRT rename and sort by region

My take on the conversation.

I have 11000 of files, it screws ZSNES up.
SquareHead: Just use the 3000 ROMs in NSRT DB and sort them by region , and ZSNES should work fine.
hydr0x: I just have the 3000 ROMs in the NSRT DB not sorted by region and I have the problem in ZSNES too.
SquareHead: What? 3000 ROMs screws up NSRT for you?

Hope I got this right and clears up the confusion.

On another note, the amount of RAM you have doesn't matter to ZSNES' directory buffer overflowing.