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[X1pheR]

Flag supported also already. Thumbs up! Can't wait to see it
How will media files be matched if the way you implemented it now? Do media files now have to be renamed goodmerged style as in game title only without flags.
Or can it use any media file which matches with one of the full rom name (with flags) and use that as the main media for the goodmerged title?
Am I making any sense? Sorry, I'm dutch and it's late

BTW, did you see the suggestions I posted a few posts back?

[TSpeirs]

If you have the extra snap matching turned on it searches for a match without the bracketed text already if it cant find an exact match. Also it searches based on the file name so what's displayed in GameEx is irrevelant. So by default it will show the snap for first game in the rom folder found alpha numerically if using this new merge feature. So if Europe and USA exist Europe will be shown as e is before u. On the info page it will match the snap for each variation. It does not do anything else clever for now.

Yes, some interesting suggestions.

[X1pheR]

Nice. So with no-intro (or goodsets) sets being able to be displayed as goodmerged it will still match against your untouched media files. That's excellent. This is gonna be good Hopefully the displaying of media files in goodmerge mode will not be slowed down a lot since for every listing it doesn't match so it searches.

Maybe it is in fact better to just audit all media collections as goodmerged. This way it will match right away with the goodmerged game title but also slim down the size of all your media collections as well. Also with using sets like emumovies videos you only get USA sets. So by just renaming these sets to remove the (USA) they are in fact goodmerged right away

And thanks. Hopefully the suggestions will be interesting enough to implement

[TSpeirs]

The way I see it I am just having a little go at making it a bit easier and a little quicker, like with a lot of the features. End of the day if you want the perfect and most importantly accurate media matching and perfect merged sets people are going to have to do a little work. The other bonus is that GameEx wil support it if you do

Anyway, I think ill release it shortly, so you should be able to get a better idea, might as well get it out there while the irons hot. Seems like theres been quite a bit of innovation in this thread. I never heard of anyone Goodmerging NoIntro before!

NoIntroMerge © GameEx Forum Members!

[fRequEnCy]

TSpeirs, on Mar 20 2009, 05:12 PM, said:

The way I see it I am just having a little go at making it a bit easier and a little quicker, like with a lot of the features. End of the day if you want the perfect and most importantly accurate media matching and perfect merged sets people are going to have to do a little work. The other bonus is that GameEx wil support it if you do

Anyway, I think ill release it shortly, so you should be able to get a better idea, might as well get it out there while the irons hot. Seems like theres been quite a bit of innovation in this thread. I never heard of anyone Goodmerging NoIntro before!

NoIntroMerge © GameEx Forum Members!

Sounds good Tom! Thanks! Can't wait to see the new release.

[X1pheR]

TSpeirs, on Mar 21 2009, 12:12 AM, said:

The way I see it I am just having a little go at making it a bit easier and a little quicker, like with a lot of the features. End of the day if you want the perfect and most importantly accurate media matching and perfect merged sets people are going to have to do a little work. The other bonus is that GameEx wil support it if you do

Anyway, I think ill release it shortly, so you should be able to get a better idea, might as well get it out there while the irons hot. Seems like theres been quite a bit of innovation in this thread. I never heard of anyone Goodmerging NoIntro before!

NoIntroMerge © GameEx Forum Members!

You sure are! The innovation has just begun I guess. With no-intro's Dat-O-Matic you now have parent-clone dats and xmdb files to go with it. With that making it possible to create a GoodMerged set with the GoodMerge program in just a few clicks. ClrMamePro still doesn't support solid archives yet. But when it does (and from what I've read it is going to happen) I think more and more will convert the sets. Correct me if I'm wrong but I only see upsides as to no-intro sets getting GoodMerged.
+ One listing for every game in stead of a full list with all versions.
+ Much lesser filesize being the different versions put in one solid archive (which only GoodMerge does at the moment).
+ Resulting in also much lesser sized media collections as you only need one media file for the goodmerged romset.

Downside is that no frond-end supports it yet, untill now I believe you are the first one to support it.
Maybe I'll even GoodMerge my romsets now with the support being added now. Correction; I'll No-IntroMerge them

[TSpeirs]

Thanks for the education. It seems really it already supported it other than the flag icons, so I cant really take credit for doing something new in a front-end. I think the automatic merge is nice though. Might be nice for MAME too. I personally like to have the list of clones in MAME, but only when the actual game name is different. Hence why GameEx has always filtered the MAME list by default.

[X1pheR]

Education? Sorry, really didn't mean it in that way. I was just spilling my thoughts about. Also for other people getting to read this topic I guess. Guess I just talk to much

I'm currently converting the SNES set with goodmerge. I'm curious how big of a difference the sizes will be. Will post results tomorrow. Going to sleep now. Goodmerge reports also that it will take 2,5 hours to convert!!! Damn

[igelkotten]

TSpeirs, on Mar 20 2009, 12:49 AM, said:

Ive got it supporting the flags for No-Intro now too.

Great news, Tom. And the new Parent/Clone support too.
Looking forward to the next release...