- HOW TO USE RETROPIE FILE MANAGER TO DELETE ROMS HOW TO
- HOW TO USE RETROPIE FILE MANAGER TO DELETE ROMS CODE
Yes or the Midnight Commander - but it's a pitty you don't have the possibility to remove some ROMs just with a controller. Nice job (even if I prefer a ssh shell) :) Improve the script! Greetings and for all the bash knoff said in BashROMManager - Delete ROMs with your gamepad!: Used FastForward two times and rushed 20% of gamelist Wait! I don't want to delete a specific ROM, so I select it again - see the queue counter holds now only three items Selected 4 files that are sended to queueģ. File is deleted as the folder is now empty zxspectrum will not be listed anymoreĢ. If I want to delete I'm asked if I want to do soĤ. The zxspectrum system contains one file gamelist.xmlģ. You are in the system selection > zxspectrum selectedĢ. If a system contains subfolder the subfolder will also be ignored and can't be selectedġ.Empty folder/systems will be ignored and can't be selected.The shortnames atari2600, gb, nes will be displayed as their real names.So a typcial ROM structure usually can look like this ~/RetroPie I wanted to write this as simple as possible.Īll directories from the your ROM-default path will be listed. Mv BashROMManager.sh ~/RetroPie/retropiemenuĬhmod +x ~/RetroPie/retropiemenu/BashROMManager.sh
If you are not soooo familiar with unix system just enter the commands above wget You can do this of course by typing chmod +x /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/BashROMManager.sh You "may" change the ROMPath if your have annother default setting as /home/pi/RetroPie/romsĪs the retropiemenu makes calls via bash there is no need to make this file executable.
HOW TO USE RETROPIE FILE MANAGER TO DELETE ROMS HOW TO
So this is a productive tool and it's more intended to delete setting files, single ROMs (broken, wrong translated, porn stuff, PD roms, twins.) in one session! How to installĬopy the bashfile just into folder /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu from your RetroPie installation. Right to v.050 and higher it's possible to make multi selections! So I think it can be introduced here :)ĭelete process is done via rm -f $romfile commandĪs it is usable with your gamepad it can be annoying to click hundreds of files. I tested with a system that contains more than 2000 entries and it did do it's job. You can use your gamepad to delete ROMs, SaveStates, settings. This little script let you delete determinated ROMs of choosen system.
HOW TO USE RETROPIE FILE MANAGER TO DELETE ROMS CODE
You can get it via instructions in code box. As I saw that there could be demand of a method to delete ROMs via gamepad.