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    Default HowTo Goodmerge Goodroms simple Step-by-Step Guide

    Things You will need:
    - Goodroms
    - GoodMerge v3.x + 'XMDBs GoodTools v0.xx-v3.14' (slightly outdated) + 7za.exe
    - GoodWork v1.23b (or GoodGUI v2.1) + AllGoodThings GoodTools database

    1. extract roms to the folder of your choice
    (if the files are inside separate archives you can extract them to the root of that folder and delete archives as it will speed up step 5)

    2. extract GoodWork, GoodMerge and AllGoodThings Good*.zip (eg. GoodNES_314.zip) database to the root of another folder

    3. if you have any extra roms just copy them to the roms folder (rom filenames are irrelevant because we will check them in the next step)

    4. run GoodWork to properly rename files and scan for duplicates
    - select console from the dropdown list
    - select Good*.exe database (eg. GoodNES.exe)
    - browse for the roms folder
    - select rename
    click on 'Execute' will create a /*Ren/ folder inside roms folder, MOVE renamed roms into, and create *Have.txt and *Miss.txt in the root

    Note: this part is really fast but if you wish to keep the rom filenames as they are and you are missing just the text files you can select
    list instead of rename to create the files (eg. NESHave.txt / NESMiss.txt), if you have the /*Ren/ (eg. NESRen) folder and
    *Have.txt / *Miss.txt already prepared (& you didn't add any new files) just skip this step completely

    5. copy Good*.xmdb (eg. GoodNES.xmdb) and 7zip commandline (7za.exe) to GoodMerge folder, run GoodMerge.exe
    - select File Locations: browse for /*Ren/ folder, /*Merge/ destination folder and *Have.txt file paths
    (you can keep the /*Merge/ sub-folder, just copy the 1st part of /*Ren/ folder path and GoodMerge will create new folder)
    - select Other Locations: path for 7za.exe
    - select Compression: none for 'Source', 7z for 'Output'
    - select ROM Set: XMDB from the list
    click on 'Merge Now' to fill-in the /*Merge/ folder

    6. now you can store/zip/rar the files *Have.txt, *Miss.txt and /*Merge/ folder to safe place and delete the rest of the files
    (in WinRAR select Store as 'Compression method' because it will speed up things without significant difference in size)


    PS.

    List of AllGoodThings GoodTools (08/2013, 14.1 MB total)
    - Good2600_314.zip
    - Good5200_201.zip
    - Good7800_204.zip
    - GoodChaF_31415.zip
    - GoodCoCo_V321.zip
    - GoodCol_314.zip
    - GoodCPC_31415.zip
    - GoodGB64_300.rar
    - GoodGBA_314.zip
    - GoodGBx_314.zip
    - GoodGCOM_314.zip
    - GoodGen_V321.zip
    - GoodGG_V320.zip
    - GoodINTV_203.zip
    - GoodJag_201.zip
    - GoodLynx_201.zip
    - GoodMO5_31415.zip
    - GoodMSX1_0_9993.zip
    - GoodMSX2_0_9993.zip
    - GoodMTX_V31415.zip
    - GoodN64_V321.zip
    - GoodNES_314.zip
    - GoodNGPx_314.zip
    - GoodOric_201.zip
    - GoodPCE_109a.zip
    - GoodPico_V315.zip
    - GoodPSID_0_9994.zip (there is GoodPSID_V322.zip, but the Goodrom collection is not available)
    - GoodSAMC_203.zip
    - GoodSMS_V320.zip
    - GoodSNES_204.zip
    - GoodSPC_V322.zip
    - GoodSV_V321.zip
    - GoodVBoy_V31415.zip
    - GoodVect_106.zip
    - GoodWSx_314.zip

    List of Goodsets (08/2013, goodmerged size, 18.6 GB total)
    - Amstrad CPC (GoodCPC v3.1415) .................................. 645.6 MB You have 27103 of 27103 known Amstrad CPC Disk/Cart Images (V3.1415)
    - Atari 2600 (Good2600 v3.14) ........................................... 4.9 MB You are missing 14 of 7216 known Atari 2600 ROMS (V3.14)
    - Atari 5200 (Good5200 v2.01) ........................................... 1.1 MB You have 284 of 284 known Atari 5200 ROMS (V2.01)
    - Atari 7800 (Good7800 v2.04) ........................................... 1.9 MB You have 183 of 183 known Atari 7800 ROMS (V2.04)
    - Atari Jaguar (GoodJag v2.01) ......................................... 88.3 MB You have 139 of 139 known Atari Jaguar ROMS (V2.01)
    - Atari Lynx (GoodLynx v2.01) .......................................... 11.2 MB You have 300 of 300 known Atari Lynx ROMS (V2.01)
    - Bandai WonderSwan (GoodWSx v3.14) ........................... 198.2 MB You are missing 1 of 346 known Bandai WonderSwan/WS Color ROMS (V3.14)
    - Colecovision (GoodCol v3.14) .......................................... 2.3 MB You have 459 of 459 known Coleco ColecoVision ROMS (V3.14)
    - Commodore 64 (GoodGB64 v3.00) .................................... 1.6 GB You have 17067 ROMS / 525MB 7z
    - Commodore 64 PSID Music Images (GoodPSID v0.999.4) ..... 33.1 MB You have 30365 of 30365 known Commodore 64 PSID Music Images (0.999.4 BETA)
    ............................................... (GoodPSID v3.22) ......... 32.9 MB You have 37499 of 37499 known Commodore 64 PSID Music Images (V3.22)
    - Fairchild Channel F (GoodChaF v3.1415) ......................... 200.5 kB You have 88 of 88 known Fairchild/Zircon Channel F ROMS (V3.1415)
    - General Computer Vectrex (GoodVect v1.06) ................... 698.8 kB You have 287 of 287 known GCE Vectrex ROMS (1.06)
    - Mattel Intellivision (GoodINTV v2.03) ................................ 1.3 MB You have 238 of 238 known Mattel Intellivision ROMS (V2.03)
    - Memotech MTX (GoodMTX v3.1415) .............................. 458.4 kB You have 98 of 98 known Memotech MTX Images (V3.1415)
    - Miles Gordon Sam Coupe (GoodSamC v2.03) ................... 125.4 MB You have 796 of 796 known Miles Gordon Technologies Sam Coupe Images (V2.03)
    - NEC PC-Engine [TurboGrafx-16] (GoodPCE v1.09a) ............ 77.3 MB You have 1565 of 1565 known NEC PC Engine - TurboGrafx-16 ROMS (1.09a)
    - Nintendo 64 (GoodN64 v3.21) .......................................... 5.1 GB You are missing 5 of 3389 known Nintendo 64 ROMS (V3.21)
    - Nintendo GameBoy Advanced (GoodGBA/GBAMerge v3.14) ..... 6.8 GB You are missing 8162 of 16816 known Nintendo Game Boy Advance ROMS (V3.14)
    - Nintendo Gameboy-Gameboy Color (GoodGBX 3.14) .......... 566.7 MB You have 9333 of 9333 known Nintendo Gameboy/Gameboy Color ROMS (V3.14)
    - Nintendo NES Entertainment System (GoodNES v3.14) ...... 234.9 MB You have 16384 of 16384 known Nintendo Famicom/NES ROMS (V3.14)
    - Nintendo SNES - Famicom (GoodSNES 2.04) ....................... 1.6 GB You have 11337 of 11337 known Nintendo Super NES/Famicom ROMS (V2.04)
    - Nintendo Virtual Boy (GoodVBoy v3.1415) ......................... 6.3 MB You have 179 of 179 known Nintendo Virtual Boy ROMS (V3.1415)
    - Sega Game Gear (GoodGG v3.20) ................................... 63.0 MB You are missing 1 of 1020 known Sega Game Gear ROMS (V3.20)
    - Sega Genesis-MegaDrive-32X (GoodGen 3.21) ................. 879.1 MB You have 8563 of 8563 known Sega Genesis/Mega Drive/32X ROMS (V3.21)
    - Sega MasterSystem (GoodSMS 3.20) .............................. 49.4 MB You are missing 5 of 1516 known Sega Master System/SG-1000/SC-3000/SF-7000/Microvision ROMS (V3.20)
    - Sega Pico (GoodPico v3.15) .......................................... 50.0 MB You are missing 5 of 178 known Sega Pico ROMS (V3.15)
    - SFC-SNES SPC Music Images (GoodSPC v3.22) ............... 161.9 MB You are missing 587 of 57154 known SFC-SNES SPC Music Images (V3.22)
    - SNES SPC Set (SnesMusic v2) (SPCSETS.2009.July.15) .... 127.9 MB You have 1196 ROMS
    - SNK NeoGeo Pocket (GoodNGPx v3.14) ............................ 43.7 MB You have 342 of 342 known SNK NeoGeo Pocket/Pocket Color ROMS (V3.14)
    - Spectravideo MSX 1 (GoodMSX1 v0.999.3) ...................... 11.0 MB You have 589 of 589 known MSX1 ROMS (0.999.3 BETA)
    - Spectravideo MSX 2 (GoodMSX2 v0.999.3) ...................... 16.3 MB You have 166 of 166 known MSX2 ROMS (0.999.3 BETA)
    - Tandy Color Computer (GoodCoCo v3.21) ....................... 938.5 kB You are missing 5 of 159 known Radio Shack Color Computer ROMS (V3.21)
    - Tangerine Oric (GoodOric v2.01) .................................... 13.4 MB You have 1236 of 1236 known Tangerine Oric/Atmos/TeleStrat Tape/Disk/BIOS Images (V2.01)
    - Thomson MO5 (GoodMO5 v3.1415) .................................. 4.4 MB You have 391 of 391 known Thomson MO5 Cartridge/Tape Images (V3.1415)
    - TigerGame.com (GoodGCOM v3.14) .................................. 7.2 MB You have 30 of 30 known Tiger Game.com ROMS (V3.14)
    - Watara SuperVision (GoodSV v3.21) ................................. 1.1 MB You have 69 of 69 known Watara Supervision ROMS (V3.21)

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    Last edited by Leon4rdo; 23rd-August-2013 at 22:26.

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