Tagging guide/suggestion by Lunar at 5:13 AM EDT on October 3, 2005
I'm wondering if there is a guide for tagging and timing USF sets anywhere around here? I couldn't find one when I looked around. I personally don't know how I'd go about making these batch files if I decided I could chip in and help with something, so I think it'd be cool to have a guide available showing people the correct way of doing it. I'm pretty clueless, myself.
If there is such a guide, I have a suggestion; to link to it on the USF set page, somewhere obvious.
Batchfiles are executables which containing commands for the cmd (command line) console of windows. If u type cmd in "start -> execute" it shows u the prompt console.
Now the guide:
First u need the programm "psfpoint". Download it Here Decompress the files of the downloadet archive in a folder which contains all the .miniusf files of an untagged/unnamed set.now u create a Text-file.Open it with the normal windows notepad and use following commands to tagg a set.
Maybe u want to tag Donkey Kong 64 for example.U know that the first file, maybe named: sparse00.miniusf is... the Title Music.
Now u write in the Textfile:
RENAME "sparse00.miniusf" "Donkey Kong 64 - Title Music.miniusf"
for example..
if u want to tagg, not to rename, u use commands like:
psfpoint "-game=Donkey Kong 64" *.miniusf psfpoint "-year=1999" *.miniusf psfpoint "-title=Title Theme" "Donkey Kong 64 - Title Theme.miniusf" psfpoint "-length=123.456" "Donkey Kong 64 - Title Theme.miniusf"
Its very simple.The command "psfpoint" lets cmd know that u want to run psfpoint for the following commands.
"-game=Game Name" sets the Game Name.If u want to set the Game Name in the tagger field for all miniusf u write: *.miniusf after the "-game=" command.For example:
psfpoint "-game=Donkey Kong 64" *.miniusf
If u want to give a specific .miniusf, for example "Donkey Kong 64 - Title Theme.miniusf", a special length, then u write in the next line:
psfpoint "-length=3" "Donkey Kong 64 - Title Theme.miniusf"
Now the time after the batch run will set to 3 Minutes for the File "Donkey Kong 64 - Title Theme.miniusf".
I know its hard to understand, so here is an example:
RENAME "sparseae.miniusf" "01.Donkey Kong 64 - Nintendo Logo.miniusf" psfpoint "-title=Nintendo Logo" "01.Donkey Kong 64 - Nintendo Logo.miniusf" psfpoint "-length=1:13.640" "01.Donkey Kong 64 - Nintendo Logo.miniusf" psfpoint "-track=1" "01.Donkey Kong 64 - Nintendo Logo.miniusf"
RENAME "sparse4b.miniusf" "02.Donkey Kong 64 - DK Rap.miniusf" psfpoint "-title=DK Rap" "02.Donkey Kong 64 - DK Rap.miniusf" psfpoint "-length=3:39.495" "02.Donkey Kong 64 - DK Rap.miniusf" psfpoint "-track=2" "02.Donkey Kong 64 - DK Rap.miniusf" psfpoint "-fade=0" "02.Donkey Kong 64 - DK Rap.miniusf"
RENAME "sparse86.miniusf" "03.Donkey Kong 64 - Main Menu.miniusf" psfpoint "-title=Main Menu" "03.Donkey Kong 64 - Main Menu.miniusf" psfpoint "-length=2:11.177" "03.Donkey Kong 64 - Main Menu.miniusf" psfpoint "-track=3" "03.Donkey Kong 64 - Main Menu.miniusf"
RENAME "sparse7a.miniusf" "04.Donkey Kong 64 - Story.miniusf" psfpoint "-title=Story" "04.Donkey Kong 64 - Story.miniusf" psfpoint "-length=5:02.261" "04.Donkey Kong 64 - Story.miniusf" psfpoint "-track=4" "04.Donkey Kong 64 - Story.miniusf" psfpoint "-fade=0" "04.Donkey Kong 64 - Story.miniusf"
RENAME "sparse7b.miniusf" "05.Donkey Kong 64 - Donkey Kongs Home.miniusf" psfpoint "-title=Donkey Kongs Home" "05.Donkey Kong 64 - Donkey Kongs Home.miniusf" psfpoint "-length=3:08.713" "05.Donkey Kong 64 - Donkey Kongs Home.miniusf" psfpoint "-track=5" "05.Donkey Kong 64 - Donkey Kongs Home.miniusf"
RENAME "sparse7a.miniusf" "05.Donkey Kong 64 - Donkey Kongs Home.miniusf" psfpoint "-title=Donkey Kongs Home" "05.Donkey Kong 64 - Donkey Kongs Home.miniusf" psfpoint "-length=3:08.713" "05.Donkey Kong 64 - Donkey Kongs Home.miniusf" psfpoint "-track=5" "05.Donkey Kong 64 - Donkey Kongs Home.miniusf"
AFTER u set all taggs,times,names u save the text file and rename the extension ".txt" to ".bat".
Now for example the textfile is named "New Textfile.bat"
This Bat(ch)-File can now be run in the Folder which contains the .miniusfs and the files of the archive of psfpoint.zip.
I hope u understand that, if not, other people could explain it a little bit better.
edit:
Of Course, noone steal pls my first taggs for DK64, which are shown above ;)
edited 9:45 AM EDT October 3, 2005
Rename by Knurek at 12:20 PM EDT on October 5, 2005
You can just type ren, that's enough (saves you 3 bytes on every instance ;) ).
psfpoint "-game=Donkey Kong 64" *.miniusf psfpoint "-year=1999" *.miniusf psfpoint "-title=Title Theme" "Donkey Kong 64 - Title Theme.miniusf" psfpoint "-length=123.456" "Donkey Kong 64 - Title Theme.miniusf"
into
psfpoint -game="Donkey Kong 64" -year=1999 -title="Title Theme" -length=123.456 "Donkey Kong 64 - Title Theme.miniusf"
Please take note that you only need to use " marks when there's a space in the data you're entering. In other words, "Title Theme" requires the quotation marks, where as 'Title' does not (or even Supercalifragilisticexpialidotious, for that matter, since it's one word (though spelled wrong, I'm sure)). This holds true for any time that you enter data into a command prompt. It also makes things cleaner so that you don't have to much extra stuff cluttering up the place.
Hope that helps, in someway, or another. Mouser X over and out.