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How to import/organize Wii-U ROM folder?


Cloudster

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Okay I have a problem when importing Wii-U ROMS. Launchbox gets confused. I have my folder structure like this:

 

ROMS/

    -SNES

    -WII_U

          -Mario Kart 8

                 -code

                 -content

                 -metadata

           - Super Mario 3D

                 -code

                 -content

                 -metadata

 

and so forth.... the file it needs to load are either rpx or wud.... but they are located in the code subdirectory. How am I suppose to make Wii-U roms work with Launchbox?

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On 4/29/2017 at 11:37 PM, Lurkon said:

I personally make a folder full of shortcuts to the rpx files then just point launchboxes importer at that folder and all i then have to do is rename the games correctly once imported, nice and easy.

How do you make it work? I had the same idea but when I launch a game imported like this, CEMU tells me this is an unknown file type

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Some lines of code to automate a bit the process (you have to change the items in bold to match your context) :

@echo off
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b /s "..\*.rpx"') do (
  FOR /f "tokens=1,2,3,4,5 delims=\" %%a IN ("%%i") do (mklink /H "%%e.rpx" "%%i")
)

To put it short, it takes the name of the folder, for me the 5th element (hence the tokens=1,2,3,4,5 and %%E, the 5th element of the set) and make a hardlink between the original rpx name (which is often crap) and a local link to the rpx named properly named with the directory name instead. You can put echo before the mklink command to dry run the script and check it does things properly. If you made a mistake and have to delete the hardlinks, no worries, it won't delete your original files.

 

My path is D:\Arcade\Nintendo Wii U\Roms

and the place where I put my hardlink D:\Arcade\Nintendo Wii U\Roms\roms2

I dropped my import.bat file in the hardlink folder (roms2), executed it, went to launchbox and imported.

All went fine.

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