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| Howard_Casto:
I've been trying to navigate through the mess that is the current state of mame (pun intended) and via various scripts I've wrote here is what I've found: Total Machines: ~16,000 Machines with E.M. filtered off: ~12,000 Machines with E.M., Bios, Mahjong and Gambling filtered off: ~9,000 Machines with the above filtered off and preliminary (unplayable) drivers: ~7,000 The above filters with clones filtered off: ~3200 I say about because I don't have a way to properly filter this stuff... a bit of creative programming is required. I know several hundred video poker machines are still in the final number. I'm just posting it here as a bit of interesting info. The current mame rom set is ~44 gigs without chds. That means that the majority of people that use mame are pulling down several gigs of roms but are only using about 20% of them. I just found it a bit over-whelming and I can't imagine how people are managing such a massive game list these days. I'm working on something as we speak, but it isn't perfect so discussion is welcome. |
| voltz:
I would imagine those massive libraries are so folks can demo their cabs with hyperspin via youtube. |
| eds1275:
--- Quote from: voltz on October 29, 2015, 02:55:45 am ---I would imagine those massive libraries are so folks can demo their cabs with hyperspin via youtube. --- End quote --- lol. You know you're happy with your cabinet when the thing you show off the most is the game select menu. To be honest about the download thing, most people I'm sure download a giant torrent and hope everything is in it. I hate doing it, but I have backed it up onto a few bluray discs and likely won't do it again for a long time. I personally do play some of the adult games, and have an all-games list on my cab that takes like 8 minutes to scroll through without stopping. But it's mostly there for when I hear of an interesting game and want to play it. 99% of the time I just leave my menu up on the favourites list and most people are happy with that. But yeah it is a waste to download all that crap, and even worse to then leave 80% of that hogging room on a hard drive. I'm always scared to delete anything because of how easily you can mess up something else due to weird dependencies |
| BadMouth:
I imagine the community will start keeping a curated romset of only arcade games. I'm still on v.146 on my cab and haven't played around with MAME since the mid 150's. IIRC, I ended up with around 2,600 games after weeding out the stuff I didn't want. That also included getting rid of games I didn't have the controls for though. (using romlister, then manual deletion) |
| edekoning:
I wrote some Python scripts that take the mame list xml and flatten it into an CSV file. Then I just load up the CSV in excel and perform all filtering. The resulting list is then fed to some other script that copies all needed roms (including parent ones) to some specified location. Worked pretty well. |
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