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Making mame safe for kids
Generic Eric:
--- Quote from: sstralkowski on July 26, 2010, 03:33:01 pm ---I'd love to delete the adult games from the drive altogether. They seem rather pointless IMO.
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I think Mame content manager does that too.
bkenobi:
Yes, MCM can delete or rename the extension of roms that you don't want. If you delete them, obviously you can't get them back. If you rename the extensions, they won't work or show up, but they are recoverable if you change your mind.
nickynooch:
If you are using Maximus Arcade as a front end, I believe it's as simple as clicking a checkbox to exclude adult games.
severdhed:
this is a great thread, i was just trying to figure this out the other day. I can't seem to get all of them to be removed properly though. I tried using romlister first, which took the game list from 6142 to 383 (see below)..obviously alot of games were missing. i tried using MCM, which seems to work fairly well, but it still misses some. (i removed mature, quiz, tabletop, and a few other categoris and dropped my main list from 6142 to 5328, but there are still adult and quiz games in there)
when i tried romlister, here is what i selected, it removed alot (but not all) of the mature games, but alot of games were missing that shouldnt have been.
i checked:
2way
4way
8way
Buttons Only
Dial
Trackball
6 buttons or less
checked all categories except:
mature
casino
mahjong
bios
quiz
rythm
after that, the list was at 383 and games like Millipede were missing. i dont understand that at all
using mame .124
any ideas
bkenobi:
Why are you selecting anything for the control options? If you leave it as default, you will get all control types. All you should need to do is select Not Mature (and any other categories) and populate the list.
MAWS reports 543 mature games (games that have a category that includes *Mature* in the current catver.ini). There are 4470 games listed as parents, so I would guess that you should have on the order of 4200 games in your list just by eliminating those two groups of games. Remove the tabletop, quiz, and rhythm games, and you can trim it down to close to 3000.
If your front end of choice doesn't support catver based list generation, you really will want to reduce that significantly, though. A list that long will be so overwhelming that the cab won't get played (I know from personal experience).