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IMPORTANT
The functionality and features provided by NARS Advanced ROM Sorting have been integrated into the Kodi addons Advanced Emulator Launcher and Advanced MAME Launcher. NARS is now unmaintained/unsupported.

XBMC ROM utilities (XRU) is a set of Python scripts that allows you to filter your ROM collections to remove unwanted ROMs from XBMC's launcher plugins like Advanced Launcher, ROM Collection Browser, or any other front-end. If the ROM collections are updated or a new version of the emulators installed (which may require some new ROMs to be updated) XRU is able to synchronise the ROM directories of your HTPC quickly and effectively.

Latest version: 0.1.0
Download from Github
Manual with lot of examples

Features for console ROM collections

• Only one ROM per game will be copied, so the number of items in your launcher will be lower. AL and RCB will load much quicker.
  
• Games can by filtered by region. You can complete remove Japanese games or any other language.
  
• If you update your ROM collection the synchronisation with your HTPC is easy and quick.
  
• Locally available artwork files can be synchronised so you can use offline scrappers to speed up game scanning.
  
• Advanced Launcher configuration can be checked to see if launchers need to be updated.
  
• Redundant ROMs, artwork and NFO files can be cleaned up from your HTPC.
  
• Games can be split into several launchers, for example, SNES Europe, SNES USA, SNES Japan launchers.
  

Features for MAME ROM collections

• Same as above plus...
  
• Games can be filtered by Driver, Category, type of Controls they use, number of buttons, number of players, and release date.
  
• You can remove clone games, BIOSes, drivers, Pinball machines, Mahjongs, Mature, mechanical games, etc., which are usually unplayable in your HTPC.
  
• NFO files can be generated to speed up ROM scanning with offline scrapers.
  

WARNING: software is written is Python and can be used out-of-the-box in Linux and MacOS. Windows users need to install a Python environment like Cygwin or the official one.

WARNING: current version 0.1.0 requires Python2 and will not work under Python3. A refactoring to make the software run with Python3 is under way.

Have fun an please report any bug or feature request!