romsift

romsift is utility for sifting through large ROM collections.

It is intended to help pare down large romsets (particularly no-intro) to remove unwanted duplicates and make browsing the files easier.

It works by scanning a directory of files and grouping them by their title, ignoring any tags (text in parentheses).

With the sift command, you can delete duplicate files for a title. You choose which file(s) you wish to keep, and let romsift delete the others.

With the clean command, you can rename files to remove the tags. romsift will only remove the tags that every title has in common, leaving the unique tags. For example, cleaning the following:

Popular Game (USA).zip
Popular Game (USA) (Beta).zip

will become:

Popular Game.zip
Popular Game (Beta).zip

because every file for Popular Game has the USA tag.

However, cleaning:

Popular Game (Japan).zip
Popular Game (USA).zip
Popular Game (USA) (Beta).zip

results in no changes:

Popular Game (Japan).zip
Popular Game (USA).zip
Popular Game (USA) (Beta).zip

because each tag is still necessary to differentiate the files.

Usage

Usage: romsift command [options] <rom-directory>

Utility for sifting through large ROM collections.

Options:
  -V, --version                    output the version number
  -h, --help                       display help for command

Commands:
  sift [options] <rom-directory>   sift through files to remove duplicates
  clean [options] <rom-directory>  remove unecessary tags from file names
  help [command]                   display help for command

Usage: romsift sift [options] <rom-directory>

sift through files to remove duplicates

Options:
  -i, --interactive  prompt the user for which files to sift (default: false)
  -n, --noop         only preview file changes, don't actually sift (default: false)
  -v, --verbose      show verbose output (default: false)
  -h, --help         display help for command

Usage: romsift clean [options] <rom-directory>

remove unecessary tags from file names

Options:
  -i, --interactive  prompt the user for which files to clean (default: false)
  -n, --noop         only preview file changes, don't actually clean (default: false)
  -v, --verbose      show verbose output (default: false)
  -h, --help         display help for command

Errata

romsift is open-source under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2020-2022 Jon Thysell