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Retool: a better filter tool for Redump and No-Intro DAT files.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Retool not excluding non-selected regions #228

Closed NewYears1978 closed 1 year ago

NewYears1978 commented 1 year ago

Describe the bug New to the program - several files/dats have gone without hitch, but working on a Commodore Amiga PC right now, when I convert it using only US/Europe/World - looks fine but then when I load up that dat files, all regions are present. I am not using any other filters besides those three regions. I re-ran that same PC file through retool and this time it removed 597 more files, however, it still contained a ton of regions.

Maybe I am just misunderstanding how it works, but assumed it would only show the selected regions.

To reproduce Simple retooling the Amiga P/C Dat.

Expected behavior A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.

Operating system Windows 10

Retool edition retool-gui.exe 0.12 1.18

Are you using custom global or system filters? If so, list them below Global

Global excludes: None

Global includes: None

System excludes: None

System includes: None

Here's an image of Romcenter when I loaded the 1G1R Retooled Dat image

Update: Okay I think this may be my own misunderstanding. It may be that Romcenter is seeing those games with names like (En,Fr, De, Es, It) and counting those as "Regions"

So I assume what I should be doing is skipping the region filtering part of Romcenter altogether, is that correct?

unexpectedpanda commented 1 year ago

Yep, don't use any 1G1R, region, or language features in ROM managers, Retool's already done that job for you. You're just using them for the file management aspect.

If you check the DAT directly in a text editor, it should only have the regions you've selected.

The parent/clone relationship in input DATs is ignored btw, Retool uses its own clone lists and automated matching to determine the relationships. I need to spend a lot more time with Amiga though, as I've mainly focused on the consoles.

NewYears1978 commented 1 year ago

I feel dumb, but at least I figured it out right after haha.

Epic tool, so appreciated! Thanks for the reply as well, all is working now :)