[Project] PS3 Game Organizer

[zylor]

Update1:

So i started to learn visual basic but since i don't master anything yet and i'm still learning i've done a couple of things so far in BATCH files:

1) Create a list of the folders inside my GAMEZ dir:

BLES00319
BLES00604
BLES00917
BLES00759
BLES00659
BLUS30442
BLUS30517
BLES00135
BLES00949
BLES00673
BLES00887
BLES01031
BCAS20107
BLES00914
BLUS30527
BLES00682
BLES00517
BLES00176
BLUS30192
BCUS98229
BLES00697
BLES00820
BLES00875
BLES00683
BLES00464
BLES00962
BLES00237
BLES00773
BLUS30631
BLES01134
BLES00073

2) Created an ini file with the ID and the name of the games that i own so far (named sample.ini):

[Section1]
BLES00319 = Brothers in Arms - Hells Highway
BLES00604 = Kane and Lynch 2 - Dog Days
BLES00917 = F1 2010
BLES00659 = Army of TWO - The 40th Day
BLUS30442 = Midnight Club - Los Angeles
BLES00759 = Blur
BLUS30517 = BATTLEFIELD - Bad Company 2
BLES00135 = Stuntman - Ignition
BLES00949 = Need for Speed - Hot Pursuit
BLES00673 = Colin McRae - DiRT 2
BLES00887 = Grand Theft Auto - Episodes from Liberty City
BLES01031 = Call of Duty - Black Ops
BCAS20107 = HEAVY RAIN
BLES00914 = nail-d 
BLUS30527 = Test Drive Unlimited 2
BLES00682 = Need for Speed SHIFT
BLES00517 = Just Cause 2
BLES00176 = Need for Speed ProStreet
BLUS30192 = Call of Duty - World at War
BCUS98229 = God Of War Collection
BLES00697 = Borderlands
BLES00820 = BLAZBLUE
BLES00875 = 3D DOT GAME HEROES
BLES00683 = Modern Warfare 2
BLES00464 = FEAR 2 - Project Origin
BLES00962 = Homefront
BLES00237 = Tom Clancys Rainbow Six Vegas 2
BLES00773 = BATTLEFIELD - Bad Company 2
BLUS30631 = Crysis 2
BLES01134 = Bulletstorm
BLES00073 = Burnout Paradise

And finally for those who want something like this, i created a file with the name:
Rename folders to correct name.bat
With this code inside it:

@echo off
pushd "C:\Users\zylor\Desktop\testar renomear"
for /d %%a in (*) do (
    for /f "tokens=1* delims== " %%b in (' find "%%~na" ^< "sample.ini" ') do (
        if /i "%%b"=="%%~na" (
            echo ren "%%~na" "%%~na_%%c"
        )
    )
)
popd
pause

Updated the code to case sensitive in folders!

(For this to work correctly you need to put this BATCH file inside your GAMEZ dir and create the database by hand)

When you run this file it will rename all the folders inside GAMEZ to the correct names!

And here is the final result of my current project:

BCAS20107_HEAVY RAIN
BCUS98229_God Of War Collection
BLES00073_Burnout Paradise
BLES00135_Stuntman - Ignition
BLES00176_Need for Speed ProStreet
BLES00237_Tom Clancys Rainbow Six Vegas 2
BLES00319_Brothers in Arms - Hells Highway
BLES00464_FEAR 2 - Project Origin
BLES00517_Just Cause 2
BLES00604_Kane and Lynch 2 - Dog Days
BLES00659_Army of TWO - The 40th Day
BLES00673_Colin McRae - DiRT 2
BLES00682_Need for Speed SHIFT
BLES00683_Modern Warfare 2
BLES00697_Borderlands
BLES00759_Blur
BLES00773_BATTLEFIELD - Bad Company 2
BLES00820_BLAZBLUE
BLES00875_3D DOT GAME HEROES
BLES00887_Grand Theft Auto - Episodes from Liberty City
BLES00914_nail-d
BLES00917_F1 2010
BLES00949_Need for Speed - Hot Pursuit
BLES00962_Homefront
BLES01031_Call of Duty - Black Ops
BLES01134_Bulletstorm
BLUS30192_Call of Duty - World at War
BLUS30442_Midnight Club - Los Angeles
BLUS30517_BATTLEFIELD - Bad Company 2
BLUS30527_Test Drive Unlimited 2
BLUS30631_Crysis 2

Future developments and ToDo's:
- Create the database automatically without the need of creating it by hand!

I would like to hear opinions to this project!

Everyone's opinion is welcome!

I think i made a cool work so far!

At least we should be able to maintain our games ordered and organized!

OLD POST:

Ok i'm a newbie regarding python,c,c++,VB
I started a new project to organize our games inside GAMEZ folder
Âll i managed to do so far is this:

I have the following game ID folders inside my GAMEZ folder:

BLES00319
BLES00604

And i got a SAMPLE.INI with this info inside it:

[Section1]
BLES00319 = Brothers in Arms - Hells Highway
BLES00604 = Kane and Lynch 2 - Dog Days

And i've written this batch file:

@echo off
setlocal enableextensions
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%? in (
'find /i "BLES00319" ^< sample.ini') do set ID=%%?
if "%ID:~0,1%" equ " " set ID=%ID:~1%
REN BLES00319 %ID%_BLES00319
setlocal enableextensions
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%? in (
'find /i "BLES00604" ^< sample.ini') do set ID=%%?
if "%ID:~0,1%" equ " " set ID=%ID:~1%
ren BLES00604 %ID%_BLES00604
echo.
Echo ----------------------------------------
echo All folders completed!
echo ----------------------------------------
pause

But rename doesn't work with this syntax... and i think this way is a no go... since it does manually involve editing the sample.ini file with the GAME ID = NAME OF THE GAME format!

Could anyone help me?

All i wanted was a APP to automatically read from param.sfo the GAMEID and the name of the game and rename this way for example:
BLES00319-[Brothers in Arms - Hells Highway]

Could anyone help me? Please? Thanks!

Edit:

I'm asking for help to start learning!

[zylor]

Anyone?

[chesh]

Looks like you need to encode your ID's with " around the name (Ex: "Brothers in Arms - Hells Highway_BLES00319").

[zylor]

Looks like you need to encode your ID's with " around the name (Ex: "Brothers in Arms - Hells Highway_BLES00319").

chesh thanks for the help and it did indeed work! I'll make a basic programming in batch and will read the directories inside GAMEZ folder and will use that as a referance for naming to correct format!

Anyway i did install cygwin but i just wanna know.. is it hard to program in it? Or should i do a program in QT framework?

Thanks for response

Edit: Downloading Qt framework so i can start learning something and help the community

[chesh]

Cygwin is pretty much just a *nix emulator for windows. You can program in a vast amount of languages inside of it. Grep/awk/perl/c/etc... Really just depends on what you're looking at doing.

[zylor]

Cygwin is pretty much just a *nix emulator for windows. You can program in a vast amount of languages inside of it. Grep/awk/perl/c/etc... Really just depends on what you're looking at doing.

QT framework i think does the job!

All i want is to create an app that checks if the dirs inside GAMEZ are in format:
[<game name>]_[<gameid]

If they aren't the app will fix the name and put it in the right format!

A simple app but will make me learn something!

Just a thing that i don't know... how do i read a param.sfo? To extract info for example like this:
GAMEID: BLES12345
GAME NAME: EXAMPLE NAME!
?
I'm just asking that because i searched google and never found a solution for this and all i want it to put those values in variables when being read

[chesh]

You're probably better off using cat on PS3_DISK.SFB and looking for the titleID in there.

[zylor]

You're probably better off using cat on PS3_DISK.SFB and looking for the titleID in there.

Never thought on that! I'm still downloading qt framework!

All the programming i did so far is a little visual basic and pascal!

Qt framework is basically visual basic plus c++ right?

I'm going for this and will reply on this topic if i have any doubt

Could you subscrive to this topic chesh? So you can help me? I won't do much questions since i wanna learn by myself

[chesh]

I'm pretty sure that's all Qt is. I'm not really a programmer, but I can read source code and generally figure out what's wrong, if that makes any sense. I've been using linux for 10-15yrs, so it kind of comes with the territory. I'll try to help as much as I can though

[zylor]

Well i started with linux about a year ago and i love it!
I've bought a Nokia N900 and since it is based on linux (maemo) i love the possibilities that i have with linux eheheh

I'll share my source code with you!

Thanks for being cooperative