Gaming Do you unzip your games to seperate folders?

[HBK]

I put them all in separate folders, together in one big folder.
I also put the boxart for the preview thumbnail.
here's how it looks:

Sorry for being stupid, but this looks great - can you explain how you set it up?

Yeah, I'd like to know too, please. It looks just great.

 

[ambitous21]

? It's not hard at all, no programs or such needed.
First create 1 main folder- maybe NDS Roms?

then for each rom zip you downloaded, zip the contents into one folder.
So for example you downloaded clubhouse games.
create the folder name "0595 - Club House Games (U)"
it should have the rom inside it. also, go to gamefaqs or whereever you can to find a large pic of the boxart.
Put it in the folder.
Now your single game folder has the rom and the boxart.
Put the folder into the NDS Roms folder.
Right click the folder, choose properties

Go to the 3rd tab and customize thumbnail, choose the boxart and you're done!

 

[bwblackett]

? It's not hard at all, no programs or such needed.
First create 1 main folder- maybe NDS Roms?

then for each rom zip you downloaded, zip the contents into one folder.
So for example you downloaded clubhouse games.
create the folder name "0595 - Club House Games (U)"
it should have the rom inside it. also, go to gamefaqs or whereever you can to find a large pic of the boxart.
Put it in the folder.
Now your single game folder has the rom and the boxart.
Put the folder into the NDS Roms folder.
Right click the folder, choose properties

Go to the 3rd tab and customize thumbnail, choose the boxart and you're done!

It will take forever - but looks good - thanks !

 

[Zombie_Mario]

 

[Rayder]

Actually, I use Winrar, but yes, I unzip to separate folders. My method may seem a bit complex to some, but it works for me.

I have a folder for all my zipped DS games that are the clean files. I unzip individual files to that folder, copy the .nds to the "untrimmed" folder, trim it to the "trimmed" folder and store the trimmed file separately in yet another folder called "Unused DS Games". I then delete the unzipped folder containing the original clean file.

I shuffle between about 50 games at any given time between my R4's 2gig microSD and the "unused" folder. Any .sav files go with it.

I also have separate folders for R4 utilities, skins, firmwares, converters, etc. Same goes for my SCminiSD; utilities, GBA games....blah, blah, blah. All of which are contained within a "DS Stuff" folder.
We have somewhere in the vicinity of 8 terabytes of storage among the 7 PC's, USB hard drives and NAS units, not to mention the piles of CDR's and DVD's around here, so it's no big deal to us to fill 'em up with all kinds of crap. Music, apps, games....whatever.


It all makes sense to ME and that's all that really matters. I'm the admin of our home network, so even my older brother (who bought 98% of the stuff) doesn't really know all the data we have stored away. He encourages me to collect up as much goodies as I can, so I do.

Would you believe that in all that storage space, none of it is pron? It's true.....unless my bro put some in his bedroom PC.....I don't mess with that one, other than to have initially set it up.

 

[Glacius0]

Damn, most people are so organized. I just put the .nds files in a dir and rename them to the game name, that's it. Don't you think it's a little obsessive to be collecting and organizing your roms like that?

Assuming you even want to replay a rom that you played a while ago and deleted from your cart, what's the worst thing that happens if you don't have or can't find a rom? You go to a website and wait 10 minutes for your download to finish? That's less time than you guys spent on organizing

 

[ambitous21]

well it's just a neat feeling to click into a folder and see all that awesome games you like, and i have all the great games in the NDS library that i like in there.

like how people collect boxart i guess? lol

 

[blizeH]

I'm *really* annoyed, 'cos now I want Zombie_Mario's style but that's going to take me absolutely forever to do

 

[Psyfira]

Damn, most people are so organized. I just put the .nds files in a dir and rename them to the game name, that's it.

Same, except I split to 4 folders:
1. Stuff I haven't played yet
2. Stuff that's on/been on my cart that I've started playing (patched and has a half-done savefile somewhere)
3. Stuff I've completed
4. Stuff I've completed but unlocked some extras I have done yet. (actually might skip this one, needed it more on GBA when my cart didn't have enough space to leave them on there)

Cart software, utilities, savefiles and homebrew are elsewhere.

No offence but the guy who puts everything in a single zip file is nuts! If that file corrupts he'll lose the lot.

(unless he keeps a backup, in which case it'd be fine

)

 

[O.G]

Psyfira, I have the same feeling. I usually backup the zip files on to a blank disk. Than, I unzip the games to a different folder.

 

[jalaneme]

I put them all in separate folders, together in one big folder.
I also put the boxart for the preview thumbnail.
here's how it looks:

Sorry for being stupid, but this looks great - can you explain how you set it up?

Yeah, I'd like to know too, please. It looks just great.

that is exactly what i do with my DS roms and gba games aswell, it keeps all my files organised and i can see whats what, i dont understand why anyone would put their whole rom collection in one big zip file, must be a nightmare to find everything, and whats up with that program? why go through all that hassle only to find the program cannot find any info on the games you have? and gamefaqs.com have some great high res boxart if you want to use them.

 

[lagman]

? It's not hard at all, no programs or such needed.
First create 1 main folder- maybe NDS Roms?

then for each rom zip you downloaded, zip the contents into one folder.
So for example you downloaded clubhouse games.
create the folder name "0595 - Club House Games (U)"
it should have the rom inside it. also, go to gamefaqs or whereever you can to find a large pic of the boxart.

Right click the folder, choose properties

Go to the 3rd tab and customize thumbnail, choose the boxart and you're done!

Or you can rename the image "folder", and you're set.

I have all my roms on DVDs, when I don't know what to play I use Offline List:

Once I've found something I get it from the DVD or I redownload it -sometimes it's faster-

 

[GatorDeb]

I have a Video Games Folder. In it, I have folders such as Games, PSP, NDS, etc for utilities. The Games folder is divided by system (SNES, NES, DS, GBA, etc). Most games are zipped inside the folder and only get unzipped when they go inside the flash card. Most PC emulators can play zipped games.

 

[GatorDeb]

That boxart looks NICE. Any place to download all of it? Most of my roms didn't come with boxart.

 

[jalaneme]

That boxart looks NICE. Any place to download all of it? Most of my roms didn't come with boxart.

gamefaqs.com, didn't you read?

 

[GatorDeb]

That boxart looks NICE. Any place to download all of it? Most of my roms didn't come with boxart.


gamefaqs.com, didn't you read?

I did, but I don't want to download 1 by 1. Is there a place to download "all of it" in one fell swoop?

 

[Samutz]

I did, but I don't want to download 1 by 1. Is there a place to download "all of it" in one fell swoop?

I keep mine in ZIP files, renamed and managed using NDScrc.

http://www.advanscene.com/

Edit: More specifically: http://www.advanscene.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=163

QUOTE(Samutz @ Jul 29 2007, 08:01 AM)

In settings there a checkbox that says "Get Pictures/Nfo". This will download them when you Update. However, it gets all of them, whether you have the game or not.

 

[loathsome]

I have all roms in one big folder, and using Rominator for organizing.

 

[ambitous21]

wow I didn't know naming the picture 'folder' would make it become the thumbnail.
learn something new everyday. thanks.

 

[blizeH]