Want to delete game name tags? (WORLD) (USA) (rev b) here’s how.

[tackett1980]

I’m not very good with the computers.

I recently have been met with an issue that’s been driving my ocd crazy.

My arcade roms folder that I scraped has a bunch of tags behind every game name.

For example:
1941 (USA rev.b)

If your scraper did not delete these tags and all you want to do is get rid of them, here is the best way I found to do so.

This assumes you scraped the roms and you have generated a gameslist.xml.

Go to your windows machine with your retropie on network access.
Download a program called notepad++

Go into the roms folder of the roms your trying to do this to on your pi.
Scroll down until you find gameslist.xml for those Roms.

Right click on it and select open with notepad++

Hold control and hit F.
Click over to the “replace” tab at the top
At the bottom click the radio circle beside of regular expression.
In the find what box type the following:
(.+?)
Leave the “replace with” box empty

Now Hit “replace all”
Go to your pi, restart emulation station and those pesky things should be gone leaving you with nice clean game titles.

Obviously before you do this quickly copy your gameslist file somewhere to make a backup that way if this messes something up for some reason you can revert back.

Hopefully this helps someone in the future.