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grunger106:
What frontends are you using?
I'm using GameEx on the MAME cab
Malenko:

--- Quote from: Le Chuck on April 04, 2013, 01:13:36 pm ---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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Mines pretty close to this. Some games appear on multiple lists , like King Of Fighters shows up on Fighting Games and Neo Geo. Galaga shows up on Favorites, Golden Age, and Vertical shooters.  I do have the "full list" enabled being as only a few people I know are allowed to use my MAME cab. I make the kids play on the other cabs.  I use MaLa as the FE
Le Chuck:

--- Quote from: grunger106 on April 04, 2013, 01:16:03 pm ---What frontends are you using?
I'm using GameEx on the MAME cab

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MALA, just like Malenko.  You can do this with about any FE tho, set up varies widely and most aren't intuitive so there's a learning curve. 
RyoriNoTetsujin:
The first thing I did in organizing my romset was to archive anything that's not currently playable, insignificant clones, pinmame, mahjongg, quiz, foreign language, etc (with a few exceptions, of course!) That easily drops the list down to under 4000. ROMlister is great for this, especially if you have limited controls (no trackball/spinner/guns, etc.)

When I'm alone, if I'm not in the mood for a particular game, I find myself playing games at random from that "functionally complete" romset (usually via mameUI64, to be honest).  If I come across one that is really great or might be notable in some way, I'll put it in the general gamelist that's available when friends are playing, via Mala.

That curated list is big, but not intimidating. Like shpongle's, I think my list is around 200-300 games.

If people ask if I have a particular game that's not on that list I can quickly bring it up, but I have to say that's a pretty rare occurance.
CpCaveman:
I started by selecting 50+ games I consider classics and will play, backed up the rest to a portable hard drive (apparently have 8,000+ roms according to explorer, probably mostly clones and unplayable) , and if someone has a go they usually end up suggesting a game theyre "not sure of what it was called blah blah" , then I add them as they come up, up to about 80+ games on there now so I wasnt far off, but is starting to feel like TOO much choice.
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