Can Dolphin Emulator Automatically Rename Game Files?

titoisepic · 12-12-2013, 12:57 PM #1

I've got a couple dozen GameCube games but their file names are all wrong. I noticed, though, that Dolphin is able to recognize them and name them correctly. Would I be able to take it a step further and have dolphin just change the file names to the correct ones?
This would save me a couple of hours.

If not, can anyone recommend a tool that would do this?

Thanks!

***MayImilae*** · 12-12-2013, 01:27 PM #2

titoisepic Wrote:I've got a couple dozen GameCube games but their file names are all wrong.

titoisepic Wrote:This would save me a couple of hours.

Seriously, if it takes you a "couple of hours" to rename twenty files, you are definitely not capable enough to use a tool to automate the process. Just do it.

titoisepic · 12-12-2013, 02:20 PM #3

(12-12-2013, 01:27 PM)MaJoR Wrote: Seriously, if it takes you a "couple of hours" to rename twenty files, you are definitely not capable enough to use a tool to automate the process. Just do it.

A couple dozen was underestimating it by quite a bit. It's more like 238...

**Link_to_the_past** · 12-12-2013, 09:20 PM #4

(12-12-2013, 02:20 PM)titoisepic Wrote:
(12-12-2013, 01:27 PM)MaJoR Wrote: Seriously, if it takes you a "couple of hours" to rename twenty files, you are definitely not capable enough to use a tool to automate the process. Just do it.
A couple dozen was underestimating it by quite a bit. It's more like 238...

For your own good, read the forum rules before continuing this conversation. Even the initial question is borderline imo the way it was written.

titoisepic · 12-12-2013, 09:49 PM #5

(12-12-2013, 09:20 PM)Link_to_the_past Wrote:
(12-12-2013, 02:20 PM)titoisepic Wrote:
(12-12-2013, 01:27 PM)MaJoR Wrote: Seriously, if it takes you a "couple of hours" to rename twenty files, you are definitely not capable enough to use a tool to automate the process. Just do it.
A couple dozen was underestimating it by quite a bit. It's more like 238...
For your own good, read the forum rules before continuing this conversation. Even the initial question is borderline imo the way it was written.

I'm just trying to get some help in the organizing department. I highly doubt that discussing a tool that scans the games in a way that's probably similar to how dolphin does it and then renames selected games automatically would get anyone banned.

Either way, after some extensive googling, I was unable to find a tool that does this automatically. Looks like this hasn't been made yet.

**LordVador** · (This post was last modified: 12-13-2013, 12:18 AM by LordVador.)

(12-12-2013, 09:49 PM)titoisepic Wrote: I was unable to find a tool that does this automatically

Dump your games again and name them as you want this time Tongue

**ExtremeDude2** · 12-13-2013, 12:35 AM #7

(12-13-2013, 12:18 AM)LordVador Wrote:
(12-12-2013, 09:49 PM)titoisepic Wrote: I was unable to find a tool that does this automatically

Dump your games again and name them as you want this time

(12-12-2013, 09:49 PM)titoisepic Wrote: A couple dozen was underestimating it by quite a bit. It's more like 238...

haddockd · 12-13-2013, 12:58 AM #8

Do you mean they have extraneous characters or are just named something completely different? If they have a simple pattern a quick script or program could be devised to correct the names. Can you give us an example or 2 of the "bad" and correct names?

**pauldacheez** · 12-13-2013, 03:17 AM #9

There's this lovely little command-line tool called wbfs_file that, if you take the time to figure it out (IIRC, it includes .bat scripts for this), can rename the files to "Internal Game Name [GAMEID].wbfs" for you along with converting them between .iso and .wbfs, at least for the Wii games. https://code.google.com/p/cfg-loader/downloads/detail?name=wbfs_file_2.9.zip I've been using this for years just because I haven't found anything better that I care to use or that works on OS X, but there's a GUI interface or two for wbfs_file floating around somewhere.

titoisepic · 12-13-2013, 05:54 AM **#10**

(12-13-2013, 03:17 AM)pauldacheez Wrote: There's this lovely little command-line tool called wbfs_file that, if you take the time to figure it out (IIRC, it includes .bat scripts for this), can rename the files to "Internal Game Name [GAMEID].wbfs" for you along with converting them between .iso and .wbfs, at least for the Wii games. https://code.google.com/p/cfg-loader/downloads/detail?name=wbfs_file_2.9.zip I've been using this for years just because I haven't found anything better that I care to use or that works on OS X, but there's a GUI interface or two for wbfs_file floating around somewhere.

Thanks! I'll look into this.