diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 1f4b1e168..3ab3b2948 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ endif()
 find_package(Freetype REQUIRED)
 find_package(FreeImage REQUIRED)
 find_package(SDL2 REQUIRED)
-find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS system filesystem regex date_time)
+find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS system filesystem date_time)
 find_package(Eigen3 REQUIRED)
 find_package(CURL REQUIRED)
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c68daaf24..a3d1829eb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ Building
 EmulationStation uses some C++11 code, which means you'll need to install at least g++-4.7 on Linux, or VS2010 on Windows. 
 For installing and switching to g++-4.7 see [here](http://lektiondestages.blogspot.de/2013/05/installing-and-switching-gccg-versions.html).  You can also just use `export CXX=g++-4.7` to explicitly specify the compiler for CMake (make sure you delete your CMake cache files if it's not working).
 
-EmulationStation has a few dependencies. For building, you'll need SDL2, Boost (System, Filesystem, Regex, DateTime), FreeImage, FreeType, Eigen3, and cURL.
+EmulationStation has a few dependencies. For building, you'll need SDL2, Boost (System, Filesystem, DateTime), FreeImage, FreeType, Eigen3, and cURL.
 
 **On Linux:**
 All of this be easily installed with apt-get:
 ```bash
-sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libboost-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-date-time-dev libfreeimage-dev libfreetype6-dev libeigen3-dev libcurl-dev libasound2-dev
+sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libboost-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-date-time-dev libfreeimage-dev libfreetype6-dev libeigen3-dev libcurl-dev libasound2-dev
 ```
 
 Unless you're on the Raspberry Pi, you'll also need OpenGL:
diff --git a/src/FileData.cpp b/src/FileData.cpp
index 710313f85..0c7c652d2 100644
--- a/src/FileData.cpp
+++ b/src/FileData.cpp
@@ -1,11 +1,36 @@
 #include "FileData.h"
-#include <boost/regex/v4/regex.hpp>
 
 namespace fs = boost::filesystem;
 
 std::string getCleanFileName(const fs::path& path)
 {
-	return regex_replace(path.stem().generic_string(), boost::regex("\\((.*)\\)|\\[(.*)\\]"), "");
+	// remove anything in parenthesis or brackets
+	// should be roughly equivalent to the regex replace "\((.*)\)|\[(.*)\]" with ""
+	// I would love to just use regex, but it's not worth pulling in another boost lib for one function that is used once
+
+	std::string ret = path.stem().generic_string();
+	size_t start, end;
+
+	static const int NUM_TO_REPLACE = 2;
+	static const char toReplace[NUM_TO_REPLACE*2] = { '(', ')', '[', ']' };
+
+	bool done = false;
+	while(!done)
+	{
+		done = true;
+		for(int i = 0; i < NUM_TO_REPLACE; i++)
+		{
+			start = ret.find(toReplace[i*2]);
+			end = ret.find(toReplace[i*2+1], start != std::string::npos ? start + 1 : 0);
+			if(start != std::string::npos && end != std::string::npos)
+			{
+				ret.replace(start, end, "");
+				done = false;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/HttpReq.cpp b/src/HttpReq.cpp
index 05423dfa0..5171da636 100644
--- a/src/HttpReq.cpp
+++ b/src/HttpReq.cpp
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #include <iostream>
 #include "HttpReq.h"
-#include <boost/bind.hpp>
 #include "Log.h"
 #include <boost/filesystem.hpp>