Attention all ROM dumpers: Stop naming your ROMs like this.

Hmm
When i sort my physical games, i do it this way ; the article doesn't count.

Fair. But digitally, this is just stupid. The scraper has the name right: Disney's The Jungle Book. That's how I expect these to be named. Another great example of these marvelous fuck-ups is The Simpsons games.

Example, the ROM is named: Simpsons, The - Bart vs The Space Mutants <-- Don't do this!

The properly named ROM is: The Simpsons: Bart vs The Space Mutants <-- Do this!

‘The’ is usually ignored in sorting. This is normal, as you wouldn't want a huge section of names starting with ‘The’ in the middle of your list.

Its ignored in the game lists of EmulationStation when it's been scraped with the correct name, but scrapers don't pick up the "the" being moved. The hours of manually renaming roms (either before or after scraping) is maddening.

Couldn't the problem be solved with the emulationstation giving an option to sort by "the" or by the word after, the same could also apply to SNES "super" titles

stop pirating and dump your own games and you wont have this problem

Probably, but unless you've got code ready to commit, it won't happen.

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I agree Jayro. I'm also inclined not to give a damn about a large section of my lists starting with "the" or "super" in the SNES cases because at least I know EXACTLY where the game would be in the list.

Power to the players! Aaaar...

I totally agree with you! Same with bands on iTunes or even songs. It's just f**king annoying!

Before Spotify, I used to change them all the time.

It's the standard naming convention in GoodTools, No-Intro and Redump. It's not gonna change, and I prefer it this way when I don't use frontends, the sorting makes more sense.

This have been a standard since forever with roms

I'm with The Real JDBye and Linuxares on this one. Having the actual parts of the title first with the article in the name coming after that is a good standard to name by, because it allows the game to be sorted within the proper alphabetical location for it.

However, I've always held that the best standard to name by is the Game's official release number, followed by the game's name and title. For instance, "[SCUS-94900] Crash Bandicoot (U)" would come before "[SCUS-94154] Crash Bandicoot 2 - Cortex Strikes Back (U)" in a listing by my preferred standard.

Well I hate wasting hours fixing them. Maybe I'll just go through each ROMpack at a time, fix them for scraping, and re-up them somewhere for EmulationStation users like myself.

To search through hundreds of roms starting with "the" is weird. I prefer the standart No-Intro/Redump naming.

^^^ i don't mind searching through jillions of ROMs starting with The, but when The is put on the end, scraping is wayyy more tedious

Using no-intro sets, I have no issues scraping with this naming scheme.

That sounds more like a failure of your scraping program than an underlying issue.

Equally that also seems like the sort of thing that is less "hours" to sort and more 30 seconds with a possibly even wildcard search and trivial with a regular expressions (probably even wouldn't bother "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", or would that be "Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The", if you somehow ended up with something named that as the new cell/"." in the name/extension acts as a limiter).

Yeah, I don't like names like "Jungle Book, The", "Legend of Zelda, The", "Super Spy, The" or "Simpsons, The - Bartman Meets Radioactive Man".
I REALLY HATE THESE NAMES.
I prefer these names: "The Jungle Book", "The Legend of Zelda" (TLOZ), "The Super Spy" or "The Simpsons - Bartman Meets Radioactive Man".
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But you dont want a nice alphabetical collection with a ton of "the"s in the middle of it.

EmulationStation puts the games in the right spots, even when they start with "The", so it's literally a non-issue when the ROM is named properly.

Again that sounds more like a scraper/emulator/frontend you are using is sub par issue.

I have yet to find a faster scraper than what comes built-in to Retropie. Everything else runs slower than dogshit, and I've got a blazing 1Gigabit connection.

The built in one in EmuStation kinda sucks. It's too much manual effort when you have a large library of games, some of them are detected wrongly, some of them are not detected at all. I used the script hidden away in a console based menu somewhere, think it was in the retropie config (why isn't it more easily accessible), which grabbed most of it automatically, and then used EmuStation for the rest.

[dumps a ROM, and names it the way you dislike] hehehehe