Fixing my mame mala gamelist

[CoryBee]

Using MAME32 plus 0.83 and when I select "Available" I get a list of games that all work when I load them. Every list I try making with Romlister and with mala's default gamelister has a ton of games that are not playable. I am having difficulties figuring this out to keep Mala's list mint.

Not much sleep so sorry if that didn't come out right. Thanks.

[CoryBee]

No way to transfer the "Available" list from mame32 to a mala gamelist? 



 

[BadMouth]

I usually create a gamelist with malagamelist.exe containing only one or two games.
Then I go into my all games list in mala, highlight another game that I'd like to add, right click with the mouse, and select "add to gamelist"
You have to do one at a time, but I don't make huge lists.

It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure there is a way to have romlister only include working games.
You may have to add an arguement for "emulation status=good" at the bottom of romlister.

[CoryBee]

I usually create a gamelist with malagamelist.exe containing only one or two games.
Then I go into my all games list in mala, highlight another game that I'd like to add, right click with the mouse, and select "add to gamelist"
You have to do one at a time, but I don't make huge lists.

It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure there is a way to have romlister only include working games.
You may have to add an arguement for "emulation status=good" at the bottom of romlister.

I like the idea of having a bunch of games I have never played so I can just hit random and play a game I have never heard\seen before. So one at a time would only work for specific lists.

I will try the emulation status=good and see if that works thanks.

[NOP]

Using MAME32 plus 0.83 and when I select "Available" I get a list of games that all work when I load them. Every list I try making with Romlister and with mala's default gamelister has a ton of games that are not playable. I am having difficulties figuring this out to keep Mala's list mint.

what do you mean by "not playable?" 

In my mind, "not playable" could mean:
1) the game doesn't even load up.  a (missing/incorrect) rom error
2) the game loads but doesn't see your input, or requires 4 buttons but you have only 2, etc.
3) the emulation is bad and the game can't be played because it crashes or throws junk on the screen, etc.

the solution to each of those is completely different, so we need some details.

[CoryBee]

Using MAME32 plus 0.83 and when I select "Available" I get a list of games that all work when I load them. Every list I try making with Romlister and with mala's default gamelister has a ton of games that are not playable. I am having difficulties figuring this out to keep Mala's list mint.

what do you mean by "not playable?" 

In my mind, "not playable" could mean:
1) the game doesn't even load up.  a (missing/incorrect) rom error
2) the game loads but doesn't see your input, or requires 4 buttons but you have only 2, etc.
3) the emulation is bad and the game can't be played because it crashes or throws junk on the screen, etc.

the solution to each of those is completely different, so we need some details.

Number 1

A rom error message from mame32.

Thanks NOP

[CoryBee]

NOP, just noticed that you have responded to this question (or similar) quite a few times. None of what I found was able to help though. No matter the commands used I still can't get rid of all of the roms that aren't able to load.

[BadMouth]

NOP, just noticed that you have responded to this question (or similar) quite a few times. None of what I found was able to help though. No matter the commands used I still can't get rid of all of the roms that aren't able to load.

Do you actually have the roms?

[CoryBee]

NOP, just noticed that you have responded to this question (or similar) quite a few times. None of what I found was able to help though. No matter the commands used I still can't get rid of all of the roms that aren't able to load.

Do you actually have the roms?

Good question, in fact that helped out a lot. Romlister lists "4,997" roms, my rom folder has "3,354" roms. So my issue seems to be that romlister is listing roms that I don't have the files for.

[BadMouth]

NOP, just noticed that you have responded to this question (or similar) quite a few times. None of what I found was able to help though. No matter the commands used I still can't get rid of all of the roms that aren't able to load.

Do you actually have the roms?

Good question, in fact that helped out a lot. Romlister lists "4,997" roms, my rom folder has "3,354" roms. So my issue seems to be that romlister is listing roms that I don't have the files for.

Or bios for.....

[CoryBee]

Indeed....Any ideas on how to display just the game in my rom folder? Good sir

[NOP]

Good question, in fact that helped out a lot. Romlister lists "4,997" roms, my rom folder has "3,354" roms. So my issue seems to be that romlister is listing roms that I don't have the files for.

hehe, despite the absuridty of the name of the program in this situation, romlister does not actually create lists based on the roms you have.

romlister takes the XML file, that your version of MAME generates, and then makes lists based off that data.  At no time does romlister actually look at what roms you have sitting on your hard drive.*


The reason why RL was written this way was twofold:
1) I didn't want romlister actually touching your roms.  there are plenty of programs for that, like cmpro, romcenter, etc. 
2) most people start with a fullset of roms when they figure out what MAME is all about and then go nuts over it and then decide to build a cabinet.


It is up to you to make sure that your roms folder actually has the roms that you're trying to play.  Doing so is fairly easy.  Either get a fullset of roms and then move over the roms that work for your machine, OR, export a list out as a "rom names" list.  That will be a handy text file of the actual filename you are in need of (BIOSes not included).  You can then find a fullset and select to only download those rom filenames you need.



* the above statement is completely untrue, but I didn't want to complicate the discussion.
There is a rom scan utility in the settings+tools menu.  what it does is takes the MAME xml file and then parses it down to match only the available roms you have in your specified folder.  This is an incredibly slow operation, and IMO, a backwards way to make your lists, so I don't recommend it.