GameFinder

GameFinder will search through files on disc, grouping up by game which includes potential duplicate ROM files (e.g. games with slightly different names in different regions)

For more details on the GameFinder arguments, see the config file documentation.

API

class romsearch.GameFinder(platform, config_file=None, config=None, default_config=None, regex_config=None, logger=None, log_line_sep='=', log_line_length=100)

Tool to find games within a list of files

Will parse through files to get a unique list of games, then pull out potential aliases and optionally remove things from user excluded list

Parameters:

• platform (str) – Platform name

• config_file (str, optional) – Path to config file. Defaults to None.

• config (dict, optional) – Configuration dictionary. Defaults to None.

• default_config (dict, optional) – Default configuration dictionary. Defaults to None.

• regex_config (dict, optional) – Dictionary of regex config. Defaults to None.

• logger (logging.Logger, optional) – Logger instance. Defaults to None.

• log_line_length (int, optional) – Line length of log. Defaults to 100

get_filter_dupes(games)

Parse down a list of files based on an input dupe list

get_game_dict(files)

get_game_matches(game_dict, games_to_match)

Get files that match an input dictionary (so as to properly handle dupes

Parameters:

• game_dict (-) – Dictionary of games to match against

• games_to_match (-) – List of values to match against

run(files)