Mame database website?

[Jakobud]

A while back, there was a website where you could search for and filter every Mame game by stuff like "# of buttons", "# of players", "type of joystick" etc... So you could essentially do a filtered search for something like, "how many games are 4 players, use 3 buttons per player and use 8 way joysticks" and it would give you a list of all the games that match that.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?  Is there a website like that out there still?

[spoot]

Yeah, I recall I grabbed some of the code/db after it went off-line but I never got around to doing anything with it.  Not even sure where it is atm.   

OTOH, I did create a sqlite3 database with around 575k games in it with all the data I could collect.  Obviously this contains MESS data as well as MAME data.  I should really do sumthing with it, eh?   

[headkaze]

Check out MAWLER or ControlsDat

[Jakobud]

Yeah okay the site was similar to Mawl.  Basically I guess it would parse mame.xml which should include all the relevant info right?

[BadMouth]

It was MAWS.  The website is no longer available.  It was removed because something about it could be exploited, which didn't sit well with the company whose servers it was sitting on.

Mawler was written from scratch to have the functionality of MAWS, but run locally on your PC.

It gets the data from mame.xml and a lot of different .dat files.
You'll have to round all those up yourself.
See the instructions.