List of 4-way vertical games

[Wade]

What's the easiest way to get a list of all vertical 4-way or 2-way joystick games with 1-2 buttons?

I'm converting a space invaders cocktail to a Mame system and I'd like to make it a simpler version than my other Mame.  I'd like to set it up with a small number of classic games, probably the top 25 games that fit the above description.  I haven't decided if I want to add a 2nd button to each control panel (it depends on how many and which extra games I can get out of the extra button).

Thanks,
Wade

[JoyMonkey]

You could use Sortinfo to get this information from Mame's listinfo pretty easily (thats what I use to generate the vertical rom sorting batch files I put together). Take a look here:
http://mame.joymonkey.com/vtools.html

[Wade]

Thanks!  I thought there was something like that but had never used it and couldn't remember what it was called.

Wade

[JoyMonkey]

I should probably make some more sorters for 4-way/8-way/1-button/2button/3button etc. and put them on the site. I'll see if I can get them together tonight.

[Tilzs]

I'd be handy if the list was available on the web in a sortable database format. Not an overly difficult task with PHP and MySQL but would take some work.

[paigeoliver]

SOMEWHERE on this messageboard there is a thread called "The definitive 4-way vertical list" or something like this. I weeded through the entire vertical gamelist manually and pulled out all the ORIGINAL 4-way games. So much bad info in sortinfo that it can't be trusted. Plus they list all the 2-way games as 8-way, so that is useless.

If you can't find the thread then I GUESS I could reproduce the list from the romlist on my Artic Mini.

[mushmouth]

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=6716;start=msg47379#msg47379

[paigeoliver]

Here, I will just repost the list here so no one gets the good list confused with the autogenerated list that Howard posted (lots of bad info on that one).

Ali Baba and 40 Thieves
Amidar
Anteater
Armored Car
Astro Blaster
Astro Fighter
Astro Invader
Bagman
Balloon Bomber
Black Hole
Burger Time
Carnival
Cavelon
Checkman
Circus Charlie
Commando
Congo Bongo
Cosmic Guerilla
Cosmos1981
Crush Roller
Dazzler
Defend the Terra Attack on the Red UFO (bootleg)
Devil Fish
Dig Dug
Dig Dug II
Disco No.1
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong 3
Donkey Kong Junior
Dream Shopper
Eyes
Faster Harder More Challenging Q*bert (prototype)
Frogger
Galaga
Galaxian
Galaxy Wars
Gals Panic
Guzzler
Heiankyo Alien
Intrepid
Invader's Revenge
Invinco / Head On 2
Joust 2 - Survival of the Fittest
Jr. Pac-Man
Jump Coaster
Jumping Jack
Jungler
Kicker
King & Balloon
Lady Bug
Lasso
Levers
Lock'n'Chase
Loco-Motion
Logger
Lunar Rescue
Mappy
Marvin's Maze
Mikie
Minky Monkey
Monster Bash
Moon Alien Part 2
Moon Quasar
Mr. Do!
Mr. Do's Castle
Mr. F. Lea
Mr. Jong
Mr. TNT
Ms. Pac-Man
Mysterious Stones
Naughty Boy
New Rally-X (Vertical)
Ozma Wars
Pac & Pal
Pac-Man
Pac-Man Plus
Pengo
Pickin'
Pisces
Pleiads
Pooyan
Pop Flamer
Pulsar
Q*bert
Q*bert's Qubes
Qix
Return of the Invaders
Roc'n Rope
Route 16
SWAT
Samurai Nihon-ichi
Satan's Hollow
Scrambled Egg
Sindbad Mystery
Solar Fox
Son of Phoenix
Space Invaders
Space Invaders Part II
Space Laser
Space Panic
Springer
Stratovox
Streaking
Super Bagman
Super Pac-Man
Super Space Invaders '91
Tank Battalion
The Electric Yo-Yo
The End
The Glob
Tomahawk 777
Tower of Druaga
Triple Punch
Van Van Car
Warp & Warp
Wiping
Zzyzzyxx

If you want bad unofficial clones then add Crazy Kong and Zig Zag. Note this list also includes 2-way games as well, since they play properly with a 4-way stick.

[Wade]

Thanks Paige!  I tried sortinfo and chopped out a lot of games but realized that some were missing (8-way, presumably) and there were still lots of clones and hacks.  This list looks much better.

Thanks again!
Wade

[JoyMonkey]

It's unfortunate that the controls information in listinfo is inaccurate in so many places. Hopefully the controls.dat project will eventually get everything ironed out in it. Almost all of  the games in Paige's list have already been documented in controls.dat, maybe soon the Mame source will be cleaned up a little with it?

[menace]

Great utility joy monkey!  I was wondering though, is there a way to search by genre?  In mame32 you can generate a list based on what type of games and was wondering if there was a command to do that with your prog.  My goal is to delete every single mahjong and puzzle game.  Thanks!

[PacManess]

Thanks for the list...I was just thinking today that I would like to see what games are 4-way Vertical vs. 4-way Horizontal and vs. 8-way whatever. I'm still trying to decide if my first MAME machine is going to be a "classics" only thing, or if I want to make sure I can play EVERYTHING on it. I'm thinking everything, but this is still a handy list to have!

nsb

[eightbit]

Great utility joy monkey!  I was wondering though, is there a way to search by genre?  In mame32 you can generate a list based on what type of games and was wondering if there was a command to do that with your prog.  My goal is to delete every single mahjong and puzzle game.  Thanks!

There are lots of rom sorting tools. There is even one that I can't remember the name of right now that can delete/rename/remove (your option) the roms and all their related files like screenshots. flyers, artwork and the like based on filters.