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grunger106:

So how do you guys decide which games go on your MAME cabs, do you put the full romset and use your frontend's filtering options on or do you pick and choose manually.

I've had the full set on mine for ages (with filters) but 1000+ games are a bit of a pain to scroll through.

I'm getting tempted to pull the 200 or so games I actually want out of the romset and just use those, but its quite cool to see unknown games show up on attract mode as the screensaver from GameEX.

Just wondered what people do...

Paul Olson:

I make a bunch of small gamelists based on controller type since I have a modular panel. I try to keep less than 20 games or so per list for easy navigation. I keep a list with all games for when I feel like exploring.

severdhed:

I have multiple lists..I have a favorites list with about 100 games that is the default. I have a 4 player only list I switch to when there are going to be a lot of children visiting, and I have the all games list with several thousand games that I use sometimes to find new games...I don't leave it on this list because there are you many mahjong porn games that pop up when I least want them to.

shponglefan:

I test individual games and pick 'n choose the best, since most games are pretty crap to be honest.  I think I've got around 200 games or so, which is plenty.

Le Chuck:

I group my games by genre, screen orientation, as well as by controls.  I am pretty choosey about what makes the lists for each genre too.  For example, under fighters I'll only have two versions of SFII rather than scores of them listed there. 

Some of the categories I like having around (controller and rotation dependant of course)

Vert Classics
Horizontal Classics
Fighters
Brawlers
Platformers
Vert Shooters
Horizontal Shooters
Spinner
Trackball
Gun
Neo Geo
Favorites

This means some games appear more than once over varied lists but that isn't necessary. 

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