RegionExtractor.py

# coding: utf-8

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import re
import sys

myname = sys.argv[0][:sys.argv[0].rfind(".")]
print(myname, 'v0.2')


if len(sys.argv) < 4:
    print('usage: python', sys.argv[0], 'in.dat out.dat region1 [region2 region3 ...]')
    sys.exit(1)

indat = sys.argv[1]
outdat = sys.argv[2]
print('[in] ', indat)
print('[out]', outdat)

search_regions = set([region.lower() for region in sys.argv[3:]])
#print(search_regions)

tree = ET.parse(indat)
root = tree.getroot()

pattern = re.compile('\((.+?)\)')

for child in root.findall('game'):
    name = child.attrib.get('name', '')
    if not any([search_regions.intersection([region.strip().lower() for region in regions.split(',')]) for regions in re.findall(pattern, name)]):
        root.remove(child)
        #print(name)

print('count =', len(root.findall('game')))
tree.write(outdat)

Usage

$ python RegionExtractor.py
RegionExtractor v0.2
usage: python RegionExtractor.py in.dat out.dat region1 [region2 region3 ...]

only Europe

$ python RegionExtractor.py ps2.dat ps2_europe.dat europe
RegionExtractor v0.2
[in]  ps2.dat
[out] ps2_europe.dat
count = 2767

USA & Japan

$ python RegionExtractor.py ps2.dat ps2_usa_japan.dat usa japan
RegionExtractor v0.2
[in]  ps2.dat
[out] ps2_usa_japan.dat
count = 4615

History

v0.2

solved the region extraction issue.
You can extract all titles now!

v0.1

initial release.