Hacking [SX OS Tip] Alphabetical Order your Rom

[soaresden]

Hi everyone,

Since you already know, when you transfer your xci in your microsd, the latest rom is loaded at first in the menu.
Because i Have a 256Go, it's difficult to choose a game remembering what was the first rom you transfered.

To help: Grab this portable freeware

SD Sorter :

Just instert the SD on your computer and hit Sort SD Card Twice to make sure it's sorted.

When you load up again, it will be sorted by name of your file




Nota : You can sort With Numbers to have your current games on the beginning.
Per exemple, if you are on Super Mario Odyssey, then rename your "Super Mario Odyssey.xci" to "00-Super Mario Odyssey.xci"
The file will be at the very left

Some info from the website :

SDSorter on the other hand just moves (renames) the files into a temp folder with the correct order and moves the files back again into the original path.
All the actions of SDSorter are tracked at the log file.
This makes more secure SDSorter and more cross-platform but does not mean that it is 100% secure operation. So : Please back up your SD card before proceeding, I am not responsible for any data or even hardware loss

EDIT Sunday 21 October 2018 :
With SxOs support, SDSorter don't recognize the HDD, so I have found a new freeware to order the disk and :
https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/FAT-Sorter.shtml

Because I don't want to install it, I made it portable with Universal Extractor and here is the link for this portable version.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/1371e1k7wdmsj5p/FatSorter-1.0.4.zip/file

Personnaly I don't recommand to Process Subfolders because of risk of corruption.

 

[Miqote]

Bless you, my OCD was going out of control.

 

[wurstpistole]

Just a question, how does this work? Like, in theory. What does it do to make games appear in a certain order? Modify timestamp?
BTW I already mailed TX about some kind of sort function or a grid view since scrolling through a lot of games when you have many on the card is a bit tedious, they said they work on it

 

[skylol]

505 games? Damn you must've downloaded the whole library.

Thanks for the tool, might come in handy whenever my jig arrives.

 

[julienbdes]

505 games? Damn you must've downloaded the whole library.

Thanks for the tool, might come in handy whenever my jig arrives.

505 Games is the Publisher Name/Compagny name probably .
If you are too impatient, look forward to Paperclip or Tin foil, reliable and easy. After just go with AutoRcm

 

[soaresden]

Just a question, how does this work? Like, in theory. What does it do to make games appear in a certain order? Modify timestamp?
BTW I already mailed TX about some kind of sort function or a grid view since scrolling through a lot of games when you have many on the card is a bit tedious, they said they work on it

It's simple, the tool create a temp directory and move all your files in there
Then it moves back with alphabetical order as if you transfer from Z to A (you can see the change log when it's complete on the textbox at the bottom).
This way, the XCI files are just allocated without delting and transfering again everything

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505 games? Damn you must've downloaded the whole library.

Thanks for the tool, might come in handy whenever my jig arrives.

lol yes, it's the publisher of Portal Knights

 

[skylol]

505 Games is the Publisher Name/Compagny name probably .
If you are too impatient, look forward to Paperclip or Tin foil, reliable and easy. After just go with AutoRcm

You are right, thanks for the heads up.
I tried the tinfoil method but I suck at stuff like that.

 

[peteruk]

very handy, thanks

 

[soaresden]

Update this day for SX Os HDD.

With SxOs support, SDSorter don't recognize the HDD, so I have found a new freeware to order the disk and :
https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/FAT-Sorter.shtml

Because I don't want to install it, I made it portable with Universal Extractor and here is the link for this portable version.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/1371e1k7wdmsj5p/FatSorter-1.0.4.zip/file

Personnaly I don't recommand to Process Subfolders because of risk of corruption.

 

[Toanzzz]

I just wrote a script in to do it in my macbook (thanks to @soaresden idea) and I think I should share with everyone here:

( \
  export DIR=`pwd`; \
  echo "Working dir: $DIR"; \
  echo "Making temp folder..."; \
  mkdir -p "__tmp"; \
  for f in *.{xci,nsp}; \
  do \
    echo "Moving $f to temporary folder..."; \
    mv -f "$f" "__tmp/$f"; \
  done; \
  cd __tmp; \
  for f in *.{xci,nsp}; \
  do \
    echo "Moving $f back..."; \
    mv -f "$f" "$DIR/$f"; \
  done; \
  cd $DIR; \
  echo "Done, cleaning up..."; \
  rm -rf __tmp; \
)

How to use:
- Open Terminal
- Browse (cd) to your xci/nsp folder
- Copy, paste & run the script
- Enjoy