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Looking for a list of popular arcade games, anyone knows a reliable one?
MikeDeuce:
--- Quote from: cmoses on August 31, 2010, 10:17:36 am ---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.
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I did the same exact thing and I'm very happy with the "themes only" decision in the Hyperspin config. Much easier to whittle down a list from that point down.
bkenobi:
--- Quote from: cmoses on August 31, 2010, 10:17:36 am ---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.
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So can you post a list of themes? I checked the HS homepage and forums, but am either inept or don't have access to a full list. I found a completed themes list, but it hasn't been updated in almost a year and it's game names, not rom names.
severdhed:
what i did was go through and pick out all of the games i knew i wanted in my main list, which turns out to be about 130. this is the game list that everyone chooses from when they come over. however i still have my "all games" list that has several thousand choices, so if someone requests a specific game that i dont have on my favorites list, i just switch to the all games list, find it, and add it to my favorites. that way you can have a nice list of popular titles, but still have access to all of them if you need it
javeryh:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on August 24, 2010, 08:00:45 pm ---My brother-in-law LOVES Blue Print
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Your brother-in-law is right. Blue-Print is AWESOME.
cmoses:
--- Quote from: bkenobi on August 31, 2010, 12:22:34 pm ---So can you post a list of themes? I checked the HS homepage and forums, but am either inept or don't have access to a full list. I found a completed themes list, but it hasn't been updated in almost a year and it's game names, not rom names.
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There isn't really a list of themes available anywhere. They keep a complete set of themes updated on their FTP site. I will try to take a screen shot or two of the themes directory but that would be the closest you would get to a list. Also they are named the same as the ROMS so it's not always easy to tell what a games actual name is.