Splitting the dat file

[Puff0rx]

It would be awesome to have a DAT-o-MATiC like No-Intro does, where you can select exactly what you want in a .dat. Like have checkboxes for:

NTSC / PAL

Game Discs / Demos / Bonus Material

English / Japanese / German / French / etc.

Users can just check exactly what they want, and have a custom .dat built for them.

[NvrBst]

I would also love to be able to download the dat files in regions, or via systems with clearmamepro.  As an alternative to manually doing it, I did create a simple GUI program that grabs games/regions from a DAT for me that I've been using with Redumps PSX set to grab the USA games; anyone is free to use/edit/etc if they wish.

Convert DAT Program + src

The source code is for Visual C#, the free express version should be able to compile it.  The EXE requires a Windows Machine (XP, Vista, Win2003, etc), and .NET Framework 3.5 to run.

Basically what the program does is use a regular expression.  This grabs each game from the dat, and if the game contains an element in the containing text box then it'll add that game to the new list.

For example " (Spain) , (Europe) , (German) " would grab every game that contains one of those three strings.

Any questions feel free to ask.  I've never tested this with other DAT's, other than Redumps PSX, but theoretically it should work for any ClearMamePro DAT file.

2009-11-16 - EDIT: Updated to v3.  Removed the Reverse Region check (Only worked with single letter tags like (U) or (J), and problem was already fixed in redump).  Updated to work with the new XML layout, still works with old format as well though.

[layzee]

Another vote to split the DAT in terms of region. Furthermore, I would like to separate the Js from the non-Js like Asia and Korea (I'm only interested in the Js).

[ps2gamer2k7]

why not do it like no-intro you can generate a dat the way "u" want it if you only want greek games then you could generate the dat

[Haldrie]

you can split .DAT file by using a software called total video converter.. its the best software for conversion..

Wrong kind of dat file.

[Specialt1212]

Are there any plans to add parent / clone dat files like No-Intro does?

I think this would be beneficial and would save space on your harddrive.