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Hoopz:
I think the bigger issue is why he had that card so readily available? 


--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on August 24, 2010, 08:49:15 pm ---I thought we stopped letting creatures use cross-mana powers in Planeshift?  :P

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CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: Hoopz on August 24, 2010, 08:52:40 pm ---I think the bigger issue is why he had that card so readily available? 

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 :dunno
newmanfamilyvlogs:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on August 24, 2010, 08:54:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: Hoopz on August 24, 2010, 08:52:40 pm ---I think the bigger issue is why he had that card so readily available? 

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 :dunno

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maybe sadder-- i first misread your post as questioning why he only cost 2 black.
cmoses:
There have been a lot of valid points made in this post and I wanted to put in my 2 cents.  I am in the process of updating my cabinet and had been thinking of finding a similar list to put on my MAME cabinet once it has been updated.  I originally put about 100 games on my machine thinking that was a good number to have and would have most of top requests.  This was mostly true, but every once in a while someone would ask about a game that wasn't on the list.  So when I started the update I wanted to find a good list to use.  I saw your post  and thought someone beat me to it.  Of course in reading it, everyone has an opinion and really no definitive answer.

So this is what I plan to do.  I use HyperSpin for my front end so I was updating to the newest version and checking out their Themes section when it dawned on me to use their themes as a list.  They have around 800 themes that have been created for individual games.  I figured if someone would go to the trouble of creating a theme then there must be some interest in the game.  This also narrows the roms required from nearly 8000 to 800.  It also makes the download aroun 4 GB's instead of 24GB.  I will have all those roms on my machine in a ALL GAMES list, this will not be the default list but will be available.  I will continue to have the default list around 100, a good selection of games but not overwhelming.  I will probably do some swapping on and off of the DEFAULT list as I see some games getting more play or less play. 

Let me know what you think of this idea.  I haven't incorporated it yet but am working on it. 
ranma:

--- Quote from: cmoses on August 31, 2010, 10:17:36 am ---
So this is what I plan to do.  I use HyperSpin for my front end so I was updating to the newest version and checking out their Themes section when it dawned on me to use their themes as a list.  They have around 800 themes that have been created for individual games.  I figured if someone would go to the trouble of creating a theme then there must be some interest in the game.  This also narrows the roms required from nearly 8000 to 800.  It also makes the download aroun 4 GB's instead of 24GB.  I will have all those roms on my machine in a ALL GAMES list, this will not be the default list but will be available.  I will continue to have the default list around 100, a good selection of games but not overwhelming.  I will probably do some swapping on and off of the DEFAULT list as I see some games getting more play or less play. 

Let me know what you think of this idea.  I haven't incorporated it yet but am working on it. 

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That's an interesting idea and it's more or less what I'm doing right now, taking information from various lists, so I'm interested in it. Nonetheless, I didn't find that theme list, could you provide the location to it? (or just the theme list would be ok, I don't need the actual themes)

About having a larger list of games hidden... it's actually what I'm doing right now but my main concern is that that full list of games are not really configured to work properly, and that's what I don't like about large lists. I hate it when someone comes to the machine and want to play a game but find out that the game is not configured right and controls don't respond, or the game doesn't load right because it needs a special procedure for the first load, or whatever.

My goal is to have a closed games list that I can check work, controls are configured right, etc. If someone asks for something I don't have, I'll take note and add it later. I want to minimize those cases, but I think that's the way to go for me. BTW, I'm aiming at something around 250 games or so...
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