Anyone good at generating game lists for Hyperspin? Tips wanted!

[jhuie]

HyperList won't do it.  Romlister won't do it.  Here's what I'm trying to do...

I'd like to generate databases for Hyperspin that have the following attributes:

All games that are:
1) Not adult
2) Not clones
3) Playable (HyperList won't do this one)
4) Not gambling
5) Not Mahjong
6) Separate lists for each "Genre" (ROMLister won't do this one)

Bonus points for also being able to eliminate games that require .CHD files.

I've been trying to figure this out for quite a while now and posted about it on the Hyperspin board as well with no luck.  I can do parts of it with either tool but haven't been able to figure out how to get the overall result.  Anyone out there know how to do this short of manually editing everything or writing a new piece of software?

Thanks!

[Dazz]

I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for.  All of this except for (not playable) can be done via HyperList, just log in and click on "Create ROM List".  Then select "List generated from our custom filters (Clones, Genre's, etc)".  Enter a name for your rom list and select MAME for system.  Step 3 will allow you to use filters to create your rom list.

 If you want a list with only Basketball games, select ONLY Basketball, and generate the list and save.  If you want a complete list then select everything, if you don't want Mahjong then don't select Mahjong.  

All games that are:
1) Not adult - HyperList - "Include Mature Games?" select no and no adult/mature games will be included on the list output.
2) Not clones - HyperList - "Include Clones?" Change this to NO if you don't want clones on your list.  Keep in mind, not including close will remove games such as Pac-Man since it is a clone of Puck-Man.
3) Playable (HyperList won't do this one) - This isn't a filter in the current version of HyperList.
4) Not gambling - HyperList - don't select casino, horse racing, etc.
5) Not Mahjong - HyperList - again, just don't select Mahjong when creating your list.
6) Separate lists for each "Genre" (ROMLister won't do this one) - HyperList - Select only the Genre you want a list of and generate the list.

I personally use a list with clones, no mature (adult), no casino, no mahjong, no quiz, no bios, no Horse Racing.  I then create separate lists for each individual Genre.

As far as eliminating games that require a chd, you'll probably have to do that manually as there is not a flag in the database for this.

[jhuie]

Well you stated the problem exactly.  I can't eliminate the non-playable ones.  Why would you want games in the list that are not playable?  Isn't there a way to get rid of those?

Someone in another thread suggested only showing the games that have themes made for them.  But there are a lot of fun, playable games that don't yet have themes so that solution isn't really great either.

[NOP]

>6) Separate lists for each "Genre" (ROMLister won't do this one)

romlister can do that, just not all at the same time. 
It shouldn't be that hard to generate each one individually.

don't you also want to filter out games that your machine can't play?  (ie spinner games if you don't have one). that's my favorite feature for romlister that i see a lot of people gloss over very quickly.

[kronic24601]

Well you stated the problem exactly.  I can't eliminate the non-playable ones.  Why would you want games in the list that are not playable?  Isn't there a way to get rid of those?

Someone in another thread suggested only showing the games that have themes made for them.  But there are a lot of fun, playable games that don't yet have themes so that solution isn't really great either.

As the above users states, Romlister does not do all at once, but it does everything else on your list. Besides, in practicality, when generating the "others" for all the genre lists, you are going to want to customize the "input" selections anyway. (ie. Gun games will need lightgun, etc..)

One other thing I found was that you can TYPE instructions into Rom Lister that are not on the list of check boxes. So for example, in RomLister there is only 1 check-box for SPORTS, but there are misc categories within that you can further define it by ... simply change Sports to "Sports / Bowling", or whatever ...

Refer to http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/ and click the category drop-down for available options.

[jhuie]

One other thing I found was that you can TYPE instructions into Rom Lister that are not on the list of check boxes. So for example, in RomLister there is only 1 check-box for SPORTS, but there are misc categories within that you can further define it by ... simply change Sports to "Sports / Bowling", or whatever ...

Ooooooooh, ok....that's the part I was missing.  I didn't realize you could do the subcategories.  Let me see if I can figure that out.  Thanks!

[jhuie]

Yes!  This worked perfectly.  Thank you so much for the idea.  I'm not sure why it didn't occur to me to try editing the category directly in the box at the bottom.  This will finally let me make a list of all the working games in each genre.   Cool!

[kronic24601]

Glad I could help