Hacking Do you arrange your ROMs/Homebrews?

[adyum]

Just wondering if anyone categorized their roms or anything like that? I considered doing it by genre, but I am not sure. Also do you rename them or keep them at their current name?

And a quick question that I am pretty sure I know the answer too but I am going to ask any, can you put your sav files in a different folder than the roms and still have them run?

 

[Samutz]

I use NDScrc to keep then named correctly and sorted by release date, but I don't separate them into folders. I don't see any reason to unless you're one of those people that has to have 1000 roms.

Edit: I just noticed this was in the R4 forum.
If you mean sorting them on the SD card, I have them sorted by name and just leave them in the root of the card.
I believe you can put them in other folders and still use them, but the sav files have to stay in the root.

 

[TrolleyDave]

I use R4 Commander for all my organizing needs.

The sav files have to be in the same folder that the game they're for is in.

 

[hankchill]

I use R4 Commander for all my organizing needs.

The sav files have to be in the same folder that the game they're for is in.

Well I use Rominator for all my organizing needs

 

[Nero]

I put my DS ROMs in a folder named "NDS"

SNES ROMs in "SNES", Mega Drive ROMs in "Genesis", you get it.

I leave my homebrew on the root though.

~Nero

 

[TrolleyDave]

lol Well

to you good sir!

Love the new version btw Hank.

 

[nexus7412369]

I just put the games and homebrew i use the most on the root and use dsorganize to hide any excess files that i dont use. Any homebrew that i dont use a into a hidden homebrew folder.

 

[YukiChan456]

As you can see in my sig i´m using R4 Commander and Rominator!

Thx TrolleyDave and Hank and keep up your awesome projects!

 

[Dardon]

Alphabetical order in the SD's root directory. ROMs I don't use sit in a folder called "DS", with a sub-folder called "Saves" to store .sav files.

 

[xalphax]

roms in a folder called NDS, homebrew in the HOMEBREW folder.

then of course there is an ebook and media folder too!

 

[Salamantis]

CycloDS--->Homebrew--->[folders with homebrew, eg. Colors]--->[homebrew file, eg. Colors.nds]

   Â--->Games--->Chris's Games (me)--->[games]
        --->Dorothy's Games (sister)--->[games]

I have Rominator set up to think that the Chris's Games and the Dorothy's games folders are different flashcarts, so Rominator works flawlessly with my double-folder set up.

 

[hollabackitsobi]

I rename them from the XXXXGameName(U).nds to just GameName.nds, and put them neatly in a "Games" folder on my card. That's all I do to organize things, lol. Homebrew in the "Homebrew Apps" or "Homebrew Games" folder, obviously depending on what it is.

 

[iritegood]

I use the default settings in Rominator. [Name] [Region]

 

[Banger]

Just put my games in a folder called game101 then homebrew in a folder called programs (each program gets its own folder) Put the few mp3s i have in a folder called Music and the music videos in a folder called MusicVideos

 

[zeppo]

I have a folder called "games" in the root of my micro sd, and withing that the games are sorted by genre. there are 6 or 7 genres, and each one has like 4 or 5 games in it (it's a 2 gig micro sd)

 

[Rayder]

My hard drive holds all the downloaded ROMs (and I do mean ALL of them, zipped in packs of 50

). On my R4, I use a folder called "DS Games" for the games. Homebrew tends to go in there too unless it has special folder needs. I have a folder called "Media" on the R4 for....wait for it.....media.

As far as renaming ROMs, hiding files and whatnot, right-click in Windows does that just fine.

The only real outside programs I use for the R4 are NDSTokyoTrim, BatchDPG, the ARM fix (when needed) and Yasu's cheat code editor. Anything else just seems kinda useless to me.

Oh, and I can't forget the infinite usefulness of WinRAR.

 

[Eyedunno]

Like several people in here, NDS roms in ..\NDS, SNES in ..\SNES, NES in ..\NES.

And a few homebrew games (LemmingsDS comes to mind) have their own directories, but otherwise, homebrew and emulators all go in the root.

 

[MacGnG]

XXXX - ROM Name.nds

 

[xSmileCrushx]

Damn UPS.... My DS Lite along with the Kingston STILL hasn't come in yet.

 

[Man18]

I just throw a few on the R4 and after a week (usually takes that long to beat a few games) and toss on a few the next week. Everything is on the root no mess/fuss to worry about.