Help! My roms have been branded "Torrent Zipped"

[Elvis]

Recently I have been going through my MAME rom collection trying to clean
out all the clusturfuxors.

I use the latest CLRMAMEpro

I have the entire v80 set up on DC.

Although a few of my roms have been marked with.
For example cotton.zip

It says inside the .zip file on the right window "TORRENTZIPPED-088FD7F1"

How do I remove all these Torrent zip marked roms?

[Marian Aldenhövel]

Hi,

Post by Elvis
It says inside the .zip file on the right window "TORRENTZIPPED-088FD7F1"
How do I remove all these Torrent zip marked roms?

Why would you want to do so?

TorrentZip is a program for rezipping archives. It has the special feature
that zipping a given set of files always results in the exact same archive,
something not true of archives built by other programs. It does so by
exactly specifying the order of the files, timestamps and values for several
fields in the zip headers. It also adds the comment that you find offending.

Why do that? If the same contents produce the same archive everytime you
can usefully start sharing these archives instead of the individual files
on P2P networks. TorrrentZip's name comes from the BitTorrent protocol
frequently used. Correctly TorrentZipping a romset allows to download only
the parts that changed when updating.

That said, if you want to Un-TorrentZip your roms unpack them and zip
using anything _but_ TorrentZip to repack the lot.

Ciao, MM

[Elvis]

Post by Marian Aldenhövel
Hi,

Post by Elvis
It says inside the .zip file on the right window "TORRENTZIPPED-088FD7F1"
How do I remove all these Torrent zip marked roms?

Why would you want to do so?
TorrentZip is a program for rezipping archives. It has the special feature
that zipping a given set of files always results in the exact same archive,
something not true of archives built by other programs. It does so by
exactly specifying the order of the files, timestamps and values for several
fields in the zip headers. It also adds the comment that you find offending.
Why do that? If the same contents produce the same archive everytime you
can usefully start sharing these archives instead of the individual files
on P2P networks. TorrrentZip's name comes from the BitTorrent protocol
frequently used. Correctly TorrentZipping a romset allows to download only
the parts that changed when updating.
That said, if you want to Un-TorrentZip your roms unpack them and zip
using anything _but_ TorrentZip to repack the lot.
Ciao, MM
--
Marian Aldenhövel, Rosenhain 23, 53123 Bonn. [phone].
http://www.marian-aldenhoevel.de
"It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation,
provided you start with a big one"

Jimny christmas
All I want to know is how to get rid of it without individualy unzipping
and rezziping the entire lot of greater than 5 thousand.

And my collection has been around befor Torrents even started - so I really
do no care for or have an entire torrent branded set.

How small it may be.
you get fed up with all the advertising on the net after awhile.
the slightest advertisement might set off a nuclear bomb. - lol

[Zedders]

Elvis wrote: I'm gay for Moleman!

Post by Elvis

Post by Marian Aldenhövel
Hi,

Post by Elvis
It says inside the .zip file on the right window

"TORRENTZIPPED-088FD7F1"

Post by Marian Aldenhövel

Post by Elvis
How do I remove all these Torrent zip marked roms?

Why would you want to do so?
TorrentZip is a program for rezipping archives. It has the special
feature that zipping a given set of files always results in the
exact same archive,
something not true of archives built by other programs. It does so
by exactly specifying the order of the files, timestamps and values
for several
fields in the zip headers. It also adds the comment that you find offending.
Why do that? If the same contents produce the same archive
everytime you can usefully start sharing these archives instead of
the individual files on P2P networks. TorrrentZip's name comes from
the BitTorrent protocol frequently used. Correctly TorrentZipping a
romset allows to download only the parts that changed when updating.
That said, if you want to Un-TorrentZip your roms unpack them and
zip using anything but TorrentZip to repack the lot.
Ciao, MM
--
Marian Aldenhövel, Rosenhain 23, 53123 Bonn. [phone].
http://www.marian-aldenhoevel.de
"It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation,
provided you start with a big one"

Jimny christmas
All I want to know is how to get rid of it without individualy
unzipping and rezziping the entire lot of greater than 5 thousand.
And my collection has been around befor Torrents even started - so I
really do no care for or have an entire torrent branded set.
How small it may be.
you get fed up with all the advertising on the net after awhile.
the slightest advertisement might set off a nuclear bomb. - lol

clrmame will remove them.

[Hellmark]

Elvis's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his body

Post by Elvis
Jimny christmas
All I want to know is how to get rid of it without individualy unzipping
and rezziping the entire lot of greater than 5 thousand.

Thats the only way, for the most part. Rebuilding might remove the label,
but it doesnt change anything.

Post by Elvis
And my collection has been around befor Torrents even started - so I
really do no care for or have an entire torrent branded set. How small
it may be.
you get fed up with all the advertising on the net after awhile. the
slightest advertisement might set off a nuclear bomb. - lol

The thing is, why go through all the hassle, when it doesn't serve any
purpose? You'll still have the same archives that work just the same. The
only difference, is that it will help others IF YOU CHOOSE TO SEED OVER A
PEER TO PEER NETWORK. And as far as removing the label, well, thats just
fucking stupid to get in such a tissy.

Also, .80 does not predate bit torrent.

[El Rossi]

Post by Elvis

Post by Marian Aldenhövel
Hi,

Post by Elvis
It says inside the .zip file on the right window
"TORRENTZIPPED-088FD7F1"
How do I remove all these Torrent zip marked roms?

Why would you want to do so?
TorrentZip is a program for rezipping archives. It has the special
feature that zipping a given set of files always results in the exact
same archive,
something not true of archives built by other programs. It does so by
exactly specifying the order of the files, timestamps and values for several
fields in the zip headers. It also adds the comment that you find offending.
Why do that? If the same contents produce the same archive everytime
you can usefully start sharing these archives instead of the
individual files on P2P networks. TorrrentZip's name comes from the
BitTorrent protocol frequently used. Correctly TorrentZipping a
romset allows to download only the parts that changed when updating.
That said, if you want to Un-TorrentZip your roms unpack them and zip
using anything _but_ TorrentZip to repack the lot.
Ciao, MM
--
Marian Aldenhövel, Rosenhain 23, 53123 Bonn. [phone].
http://www.marian-aldenhoevel.de
"It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation,
provided you start with a big one"

Jimny christmas
All I want to know is how to get rid of it without individualy unzipping
and rezziping the entire lot of greater than 5 thousand.
And my collection has been around befor Torrents even started - so I
really do no care for or have an entire torrent branded set.
How small it may be.
you get fed up with all the advertising on the net after awhile.
the slightest advertisement might set off a nuclear bomb. - lol

Elvis,

Seriously,

Older P2p methods are dead, like hubs... ratehr than 1:1 methods like
FTP or similar, bit-torrent allows for multiple users downloaders to link
to multiple servers...

The comment field is just an identifier... Its not a problem, & its not
identifying a site or a religion, or even a brand of soda drink.

Granted, its not going to be the smallest version of that file youll see,
but what it allows is easy access to update your romsets on the fly, not
downloading to a seperate folder then rebuilding...

Its a new century, Its a new millenium, DC++ just couldnt keep up.

[Marian Aldenhövel]

Hi,

Post by Elvis
you get fed up with all the advertising on the net after awhile.
the slightest advertisement might set off a nuclear bomb. - lol

The TorrentZip-entry in the comment-field is not advertising!

If you run TorrentZip on a set of archives it first checks this
entry and compares it to the current CRC of the archive. If they
match it's done. If they do not match someone somewhere has touched
the archive and it is no longer in standard format. So the archive
is repacked.

Post by Elvis
And my collection has been around befor Torrents even started

That does not matter. Somewhere upstream someone has used TorrentZip
on the archive.

Ciao, MM

[Elvis]

Post by Elvis
Recently I have been going through my MAME rom collection trying to clean
out all the clusturfuxors.
I use the latest CLRMAMEpro
I have the entire v80 set up on DC.
Although a few of my roms have been marked with.
For example cotton.zip
It says inside the .zip file on the right window "TORRENTZIPPED-088FD7F1"
How do I remove all these Torrent zip marked roms?

OK Thanks for the help.
It seems as though the rebuilder will remove this.
I just did not want to have to run it unless I was sure it would work.
But wiith your info I figured to give it a try.
since the scanner did not remove such branding.

To bad know that my hard drive is full and I did not mark remove source
files so I am manually deleting them after the rebuilder passes over the
file
Muawhahwhahwa muawhahwhhhahwha
fun fun fun
This is why people hate stuff like marking roms.

Got me in a fix now.

*Busy removing roms off a full hard drive*

Bah. - Take care

[Elvis]

Post by Elvis
Recently I have been going through my MAME rom collection trying to clean
out all the clusturfuxors.
I use the latest CLRMAMEpro
I have the entire v80 set up on DC.
Although a few of my roms have been marked with.
For example cotton.zip
It says inside the .zip file on the right window "TORRENTZIPPED-088FD7F1"
How do I remove all these Torrent zip marked roms?

OK I canceled the rebuild then removed the partial rebuilt rom that it was
on and checked remove source files in clrMAMEpro and now my computer should
be safe to let it finish on it's own without filling up my hard Drive.
Started the rebuilder again.

Will give it a once over scan when it is finished - but for now I am out of
here.

Toodles

[Psycho]

Post by Elvis

Post by Elvis
Recently I have been going through my MAME rom collection trying to clean
out all the clusturfuxors.
I use the latest CLRMAMEpro
I have the entire v80 set up on DC.
Although a few of my roms have been marked with.
For example cotton.zip
It says inside the .zip file on the right window "TORRENTZIPPED-088FD7F1"
How do I remove all these Torrent zip marked roms?

OK I canceled the rebuild then removed the partial rebuilt rom that it was
on and checked remove source files in clrMAMEpro and now my computer should
be safe to let it finish on it's own without filling up my hard Drive.
Started the rebuilder again.
Will give it a once over scan when it is finished - but for now I am out of
here.
Toodles

A lot of work to remove a comment from a zipfile that will reappear
when he decides to update to the newest version. Whether it's .98 or
not, I'll bet the comment will be there...

[SINNER]

* Psycho wrote in alt.games.mame:

[...]

Post by Psycho
A lot of work to remove a comment from a zipfile that will reappear
when he decides to update to the newest version. Whether it's .98 or
not, I'll bet the comment will be there...

Depends on where and from whom he gets his updates.

[Psycho]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:29:58 GMT, SINNER

Post by SINNER
Join the army, see the world, meet interesting, exciting people, and kill them.

Been there, done that, ENJOYED it!

[Terra Cresta]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:29:58 GMT, SINNER

Post by SINNER
[...]

Post by Psycho
A lot of work to remove a comment from a zipfile that will reappear
when he decides to update to the newest version. Whether it's .98 or
not, I'll bet the comment will be there...

Depends on where and from whom he gets his updates.

If he gets them from a torrent he'll get the comments back OR if he
gets them from the next ABEM flood he'll *still* get the comments cos
we TorrentZip prior to posting a flood!


Cheers,
Terra Cresta

PC Arcade
http://www.pcarcade.tv

[Elvis]

Post by Elvis
Recently I have been going through my MAME rom collection trying to clean
out all the clusturfuxors.
I use the latest CLRMAMEpro
I have the entire v80 set up on DC.
Although a few of my roms have been marked with.
For example cotton.zip
It says inside the .zip file on the right window "TORRENTZIPPED-088FD7F1"
How do I remove all these Torrent zip marked roms?

But I wanted to add my own comment there.
Something like This rom passed through Elvis MAME rom Guru.

I am not saying Torrents suck or anything like that.
This site is great for torrents here.
http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/mameftpgroup/index.php

Bah. I give up. I give up.

I found there is only one solution.
I will add my comment to the one that is already there.
This ASCII is what I am adding to all MAME roms downloaded from Elvis.


·~~~·.
( o o )
+-------------.oooO--(_)--Oooo.----------- ------+
|
|
| .oooO Elvis was here |
| ( ) Oooo. Roms |
+-----------------\ (--------( )---------------------+
\_) ) /
(_/

[MCR]

Post by Elvis

Post by Elvis
Recently I have been going through my MAME rom collection trying to clean
out all the clusturfuxors.
I use the latest CLRMAMEpro
I have the entire v80 set up on DC.
Although a few of my roms have been marked with.
For example cotton.zip
It says inside the .zip file on the right window "TORRENTZIPPED-088FD7F1"
How do I remove all these Torrent zip marked roms?

But I wanted to add my own comment there.
Something like This rom passed through Elvis MAME rom Guru.
I am not saying Torrents suck or anything like that.
This site is great for torrents here.
http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/mameftpgroup/index.php
Bah. I give up. I give up.
I found there is only one solution.
I will add my comment to the one that is already there.
This ASCII is what I am adding to all MAME roms downloaded from Elvis.
·~~~·.
( o o )
+-------------.oooO--(_)--Oooo.----------- ------+
|
|
| .oooO Elvis was here |
| ( ) Oooo. Roms |
+-----------------\ (--------( )---------------------+
\_) ) /
(_/

So lets get this straight (if I may fella's), you want to remove the
torrentzip identifier because it narks you that your ROMz (yes I did say
ROMz) are 'branded'. Then you go ahead and re-brand them with your own
fucking pointless advert?

And the point of that being... perhaps it's a good idea they are
branded with your sig of sorts, so when the ROM police come they can
definately identify YOU as the source!

man I wish that's all I had to worry about...

[Terra Cresta]

Post by MCR

Post by Elvis

Post by Elvis
Recently I have been going through my MAME rom collection trying to clean
out all the clusturfuxors.
I use the latest CLRMAMEpro
I have the entire v80 set up on DC.
Although a few of my roms have been marked with.
For example cotton.zip
It says inside the .zip file on the right window "TORRENTZIPPED-088FD7F1"
How do I remove all these Torrent zip marked roms?

But I wanted to add my own comment there.
Something like This rom passed through Elvis MAME rom Guru.
I am not saying Torrents suck or anything like that.
This site is great for torrents here.
http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/mameftpgroup/index.php
Bah. I give up. I give up.
I found there is only one solution.
I will add my comment to the one that is already there.
This ASCII is what I am adding to all MAME roms downloaded from Elvis.
·~~~·.
( o o )
+-------------.oooO--(_)--Oooo.----------- ------+
|
|
| .oooO Elvis was here |
| ( ) Oooo. Roms |
+-----------------\ (--------( )---------------------+
\_) ) /
(_/

So lets get this straight (if I may fella's), you want to remove the
torrentzip identifier because it narks you that your ROMz (yes I did say
ROMz) are 'branded'. Then you go ahead and re-brand them with your own
fucking pointless advert?
And the point of that being... perhaps it's a good idea they are
branded with your sig of sorts, so when the ROM police come they can
definately identify YOU as the source!
man I wish that's all I had to worry about...

Heh heh, you could tell where the thread was going right from square
one. What a twat.

Cheers,
Terra Cresta

PC Arcade
http://www.pcarcade.tv

[Elvis]

Post by Terra Cresta

Post by MCR

Post by Elvis

Post by Elvis
Recently I have been going through my MAME rom collection trying to clean
out all the clusturfuxors.
I use the latest CLRMAMEpro
I have the entire v80 set up on DC.
Although a few of my roms have been marked with.
For example cotton.zip
It says inside the .zip file on the right window
"TORRENTZIPPED-088FD7F1"
How do I remove all these Torrent zip marked roms?

But I wanted to add my own comment there.
Something like This rom passed through Elvis MAME rom Guru.
I am not saying Torrents suck or anything like that.
This site is great for torrents here.
http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/mameftpgroup/index.php
Bah. I give up. I give up.
I found there is only one solution.
I will add my comment to the one that is already there.
This ASCII is what I am adding to all MAME roms downloaded from Elvis.
·~~~·.
( o o )
+-------------.oooO--(_)--Oooo.----------- ------+
|
|
| .oooO Elvis was here |
| ( ) Oooo. Roms |
+-----------------\ (--------( )---------------------+
\_) ) /
(_/

So lets get this straight (if I may fella's), you want to remove the
torrentzip identifier because it narks you that your ROMz (yes I did say
ROMz) are 'branded'. Then you go ahead and re-brand them with your own
fucking pointless advert?
And the point of that being... perhaps it's a good idea they are
branded with your sig of sorts, so when the ROM police come they can
definately identify YOU as the source!
man I wish that's all I had to worry about...

Heh heh, you could tell where the thread was going right from square
one. What a twat.
Cheers,
Terra Cresta
PC Arcade
http://www.pcarcade.tv

Well I am back and surprised to see this thread still running.
And whats fine for your collection does not mean it has to be for my
personal collection.
Many peope here know where to find me and know what is and is not in my
collection.
And don't be an arse and misguide people.
My roms are clean.
Bye

[Troy]

Post by Elvis

Post by Terra Cresta

Post by MCR

Post by Elvis

Post by Elvis
Recently I have been going through my MAME rom collection trying to clean
out all the clusturfuxors.
I use the latest CLRMAMEpro
I have the entire v80 set up on DC.
Although a few of my roms have been marked with.
For example cotton.zip
It says inside the .zip file on the right window
"TORRENTZIPPED-088FD7F1"
How do I remove all these Torrent zip marked roms?

But I wanted to add my own comment there.
Something like This rom passed through Elvis MAME rom Guru.
I am not saying Torrents suck or anything like that.
This site is great for torrents here.
http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/mameftpgroup/index.php
Bah. I give up. I give up.
I found there is only one solution.
I will add my comment to the one that is already there.
This ASCII is what I am adding to all MAME roms downloaded from Elvis.
·~~~·.
( o o )
+-------------.oooO--(_)--Oooo.----------- ------+
|
|
| .oooO Elvis was here |
| ( ) Oooo. Roms |
+-----------------\ (--------( )---------------------+
\_) ) /
(_/

So lets get this straight (if I may fella's), you want to remove the
torrentzip identifier because it narks you that your ROMz (yes I did say
ROMz) are 'branded'. Then you go ahead and re-brand them with your own
fucking pointless advert?
And the point of that being... perhaps it's a good idea they are
branded with your sig of sorts, so when the ROM police come they can
definately identify YOU as the source!
man I wish that's all I had to worry about...

Heh heh, you could tell where the thread was going right from square
one. What a twat.
Cheers,
Terra Cresta
PC Arcade
http://www.pcarcade.tv

Well I am back and surprised to see this thread still running.
And whats fine for your collection does not mean it has to be for my
personal collection.
Many peope here know where to find me and know what is and is not in my
collection.
And don't be an arse and misguide people.
My roms are clean.
Bye

Just gotta say, I've only seen one arse in this thread, and I've
re-branded him!

Troy.

[Elvis]

Seems like you cut and pasted that together there.

You left out a few things.

Nonetheless .

My collection of MAME roms remains official.
Crisp and clean audited with ClrMAMEpro most powerful checks and settings.

Hows your Collection doing. :-)

I win you lose.

Sucker free since 1995
Toodles.

[SINNER]

Post by Elvis
Seems like you cut and pasted that together there.

Who are you talking to? Please attribute your posts.

Post by Elvis
You left out a few things.

So did you, like Quotes and an attrbution.

Post by Elvis
Nonetheless .

That is not a sentence.

Post by Elvis
My collection of MAME roms remains official.

So?

Post by Elvis
Crisp and clean audited with ClrMAMEpro most powerful checks and settings.
Hows your Collection doing. :-)

Just fine thanks for asking.

Post by Elvis
I win you lose.

Erm, I dont think so. Looking back over the thread it would seem
youve lost but are not willing to admit it. Typical Usenet behavior.

Post by Elvis
Sucker free since 1995

I wish we could say the same for AGM sometime...

[Elvis]

You butcher...........................

What did you do?

You have not been selling roms on E-bay again?

[Elvis]

Well just thought I would stop by once again.

Well all the BS aside now.

I do not visit here all that much anymore.
and use to use a different handle.

Hello goes out to this newsgroups old timers.

Sinner
PRoToCol
Captain Rotundo
Andreas Kohlbach
MCR
Dungeon Dave
Mark Ross

And the others I recognize over DC

[MCR]

Post by Elvis
Well just thought I would stop by once again.
Well all the BS aside now.
I do not visit here all that much anymore.
and use to use a different handle.
Hello goes out to this newsgroups old timers.
Sinner
PRoToCol
Captain Rotundo
Andreas Kohlbach
MCR
Dungeon Dave
Mark Ross
And the others I recognize over DC

Well thanks for the Hi! but who the hell are you?... go on tell... :-)

[PRoToCoL]

Post by Elvis
Well just thought I would stop by once again.
Well all the BS aside now.
I do not visit here all that much anymore.
and use to use a different handle.
Hello goes out to this newsgroups old timers.
Sinner
PRoToCol
Captain Rotundo
Andreas Kohlbach
MCR
Dungeon Dave
Mark Ross
And the others I recognize over DC

Hi.........so you are who then ?

[MCR]

Post by Elvis
Seems like you cut and pasted that together there.
You left out a few things.
Nonetheless .
My collection of MAME roms remains official.

There are no 'official' and 'unofficial' ROMs :-) Just ROMs. The
header of the zip file has no bearing on the authenicity or capability
of the ROM files it contains. Unless you have copied your ROMs to
another directory, I take it you have finished sharing over at
Pleasuredome? Because if you now wanted to do a simple update, you
would have to torrentzip your entire set again.

My zip headers contained the a date in the 18th century for Puckman, and
while I am sure the game is a classic, I am sure it wasnt an Elizabethan
essential :-)

Post by Elvis
Crisp and clean audited with ClrMAMEpro most powerful checks and settings.

If you did download them from pleasuredome, then auditing at the lowest
level was not nessesary, you could have done a quick scan 'just to be
sure'.

Post by Elvis
Hows your Collection doing. :-)

My collections fine thank you. Hows yours?

Post by Elvis
I win you lose.

Not on Mr Do! you don't mister!

Post by Elvis
Sucker free since 1995
Toodles.

Ooooo... was the operation to remove the suckers painful ;-)

[Dead_Dad]

Post by Elvis
Seems like you cut and pasted that together there.
You left out a few things.
Nonetheless .
My collection of MAME roms remains official.
Crisp and clean audited with ClrMAMEpro most powerful checks and settings.
Hows your Collection doing. :-)
I win you lose.
Sucker free since 1995
Toodles.

<SIGH>

<PLONK>
<THREAD_PLONK>

[unknown]

Post by Elvis

Post by Elvis
Recently I have been going through my MAME rom collection trying to clean
out all the clusturfuxors.
I use the latest CLRMAMEpro
I have the entire v80 set up on DC.
Although a few of my roms have been marked with.
For example cotton.zip
It says inside the .zip file on the right window "TORRENTZIPPED-088FD7F1"
How do I remove all these Torrent zip marked roms?

But I wanted to add my own comment there.
Something like This rom passed through Elvis MAME rom Guru.
I am not saying Torrents suck or anything like that.
This site is great for torrents here.
http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/mameftpgroup/index.php

All our sets are TorrentZipped, it is a 'standardized zip format' we
developed to make sharing on P2P networks easier.

*If* we were branding we would have put a link to the website in every
set, it is simply a marker to enable hashes to perfectly match up and
to make re-scanning quicker.

We have well documented it too so it is no secret.

Post by Elvis
Bah. I give up. I give up.
I found there is only one solution.
I will add my comment to the one that is already there.
This ASCII is what I am adding to all MAME roms downloaded from Elvis.
·~~~·.
( o o )
+-------------.oooO--(_)--Oooo.----------- ------+
|
|
| .oooO Elvis was here |
| ( ) Oooo. Roms |
+-----------------\ (--------( )---------------------+
\_) ) /
(_/

If it honestly truly bothers you so much, stop downloading sets from
our site and get them from another source.

-
www.pleasuredome.org.uk

[Erik Sommerdyk]

Post by Elvis
I am not saying Torrents suck or anything like that.
This site is great for torrents here.
http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/mameftpgroup/index.php

Oh my fucking god, what a great site! I just downloaded my first full
set! Thanks alot!

[Elvis]

Heavens to Mergatroid even.

Exits stage left.

[Mike]

Post by Elvis
I found there is only one solution.
I will add my comment to the one that is already there.
This ASCII is what I am adding to all MAME roms downloaded from Elvis.

Seems like you are (a) a megalomaniac and (b) pretty useless at ASCII art
:)