Maximus Arcade LST -> Mame

[seven5]

Hey guys, I ran into the need to convert my Maximus Arcade favorites file to a playlist for Mame, so I whipped up a script to do it. It looked like some others around the community have needed this too, so I posted it.

It uses Ruby. It's pretty simple, so if you don't have access to Ruby, porting it to something else should be easy. Parsing the TXT conversion of the LST format is pretty hard do due to the delimiters, but with a little find and replace action, I just turned it into JSON, which is perfectly parseable.

Simply use MA's LST converter from their freebies section. Then use its filename in the script and run it in the same directory. It'll dump a file out named 'favorites.ini'

View the script here: https://gist.github.com/1005911