How's everyone organizing their ROMs?

[Justin Payne]

I'm sure we all have this issue. Tons of rom/images but how do we organize them on our alternative storage devices. Since some of these files don't work on these devices, there would be no point in putting them on these devices. So, I thought that there should be a way to automatically go through an entire collection and build a new collection, in alphabetical order, of certain file types. Additionally, it would be nice to add to the master collection and then update the targeted collection instead of having to manually put those new files into their appropriate directories.

Has anyone done something similar to this how did you do it? I could always write a program but before I do I figured I'd check to see if anyone has done something similar in the past.

[Roydea6]

http://sio2sd.gucio.pl/wiki/SoftwarePC_en

This is my favorite sorting and filing software.  Jar driven so you will need Java. 

[Justin Payne]

Just now, Roydea6 said:

http://sio2sd.gucio.pl/wiki/SoftwarePC_en

This is my favorite sorting and filing software.  Jar driven so you will need Java. 

Thanks! I'll check it out.

[bfollowell]

On my Ultimate Cart, I sort by genre, but then I have some images duplicated and sorted by manufacturer/publisher, like Atari & Activision, but I do that only for the major publishers that had quite a few titles. I also have genres for programming languages, etc. Most are sorted by genre. I'm also trying to organize my disk images and xexs by loose and specific genre, for example, games, then broken down to arcade ports, action, RPG, graphic adventure, text adventure, etc. Similarly for DOSes, utilities, programming tools, etc.

 

I'm trying to have a logical, organized way of storing them, but of coarse, it's one that makes sense to me.

 

[xrbrevin]

i keep folders for ATR, XEX, cart files, etc and within those there are "A-Z" folders. as new software comes along it gets added.

to update my various SIO and cartridge devices, i just do one big dump - of the files that is hehe ?

 

[Justin Payne]

1 hour ago, bfollowell said:

On my Ultimate Cart, I sort by genre, but then I have some images duplicated and sorted by manufacturer/publisher, like Atari & Activision, but I do that only for the major publishers that had quite a few titles. I also have genres for programming languages, etc. Most are sorted by genre. I'm also trying to organize my disk images and xexs by loose and specific genre, for example, games, then broken down to arcade ports, action, RPG, graphic adventure, text adventure, etc. Similarly for DOSes, utilities, programming tools, etc.

 

I'm trying to have a logical, organized way of storing them, but of coarse, it's one that makes sense to me.

 

Yeah, that's the tough decision since I'm hoping to remove dups since there is no real point in having them other than if they work on different alternative storage devices (Ex: Ultimate Cart vs the SDrive-Max). I do think having them sorted by genre is very good idea and is a great option from the standard alphabetical order. That would definitely require a tool that would allow you to classify your games in that manner and by looking at the images of DriveSort, that doesn't seem to be an option for DriveSort. Maybe the author might be willing to drop it on Github for others to make modifications to it.

[Madi]

21 minutes ago, Justin Payne said:

 Maybe the author might be willing to drop it on Github for others to make modifications to it.

Is this what are you looking for?

[Justin Payne]

2 minutes ago, Madi said:

Is this what are you looking for?

Yeah, I just saw that. This might be what I'm looking for. I'll need to look into it. Thx.