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Best frontend for MAME-only, with gamelists for different controlsets?
goldenageofarcade:
Sorry, didn't mean to sound negative about Romlister! I'm likely not generating the files right, still researching it, I'm using a very old version of MAME. The first list I created was for 2/4 way sticks with 2 or less buttons, there are a few games missing (Galaga, Galaxian) that I noticed, but by-far the list is definitely a huge step in the right direction for me. If I can perfect the XML generation, I can probably get much more accurate lists.
NOP:
Galaga certainly shows up in a list for 2way or 4way with 2 buttons or less selected, so I'm guessing it's some other parameter you're filtering on. (I'm using a list from mame 135 though)
What i'd do is click on the "list all roms" to generate a list of everything. Then you can either throw games from that master list into your working list by right clicking on it, or 2x click on an individual game in the master list to examine the xml for that particular game. being able to examine the raw xml under a game can help figure out why something got filtered out when it shouldn't have, for example, centipede has the control type as "joy8way" along with trackball. (wtf?!) so it can quickly get filtered out if you don't have the joy8way selection checked too, and that confuses a lot of people, including myself.
TopJimmyCooks:
Romlister is more powerful with more features, but Mala has a rom filtering/gamelist generator in with its package too. It's been a year since I made a list but it seemed more oriented towards genre than controls, maybe.