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| B2K24:
Why the need to filter or delete data you've already downloaded? That's wasteful. Many Front-ends allow you to create your own favorites listing so you can create your own customized game listing without losing any data at all. GameEX has filtering already built in and customization via it's setup wizard. It also has pre-built categories to align the game listing such as CHD games, light gun, golden age, driving, etc. --- End quote --- --- End quote --- This entire thread makes me sad Oh the entire romset is at 32 GB and not 44. MAME has supported 7-zip for a very long time now :) You should take a look at how the latest sets are organized. Having clone files organized into their own sub folder is pretty cool :) --- End quote --- --- End quote --- |
| 8BitMonk:
--- Quote from: B2K24 on November 03, 2015, 03:31:12 am ---Why the need to filter or delete data you've already downloaded? That's wasteful. Many Front-ends allow you to create your own favorites listing so you can create your own customized game listing without losing any data at all. --- End quote --- Because moving the whole set is a waste of time when it contains clones and non-working games you never use. If you only keep one set maybe it's not an issue, personally I have mame in multiple locations and moving/updating the whole set is a PITA. I have one location where they're linked to the torrent for updating, another location with my frontend build and multiple other machines with mame on them. Every time I go to move/update the collection I have the choice of manually picking out only what I need (an arduous process) or moving the whole set which takes many hours to copy. |
| B2K24:
You're doing many things wrong and are unorganized then. Even if you have many sets in many different locations, you simply update by using Clrmamepro. Scan + fix and then use the rebuilder. Process only takes minutes. Copying the entire set over at each update or when you want to update is the wrong way to be doing things. |
| Howard_Casto:
I mean this in the nicest possible way so don't take it any way other than that. You mamedevs are out of touch with the general public. You are intimately familiar or at least generally familiar with all the roms in mame... we aren't. Because of your insistence in not properly labeling roms, we can't download what we want, we have to download the whole she-bang. I mean rom center, for example allows you to filter off EM games which are thankfully flagged and that's about it. When you are putting a cheapo 250gb or less hdd in a mame cab there is a big difference between 40 gigs and 11 and that's not even counting the chds. Yup mame supports 7 zip, and practically nothing else does. Meaning for all other emulators using the mame set, they have to be in zip format. It's all irrelevant anyway because all the roms you download on the net are still in zip format. I figured that one out the hard way after wasting my time converting an entire set. The new way of organizing things is basically merged sets, which is nothing new. Nobody uses merged sets. Why would I want to inflate the size my my parent rom with clones that I will most likely never play? I think you are missing the entire point of this thread. None of us ever wanted to download a full set but we had to, because mame's internal labeling is inadequate. The point of the utility is to hopefully generate a list you can use before downloading to quell this problem. GameEX does custom lists for use in the front-end via Filtering. I was doing that stuff pre 2000 and while I suppose you could technically use that as a download list it isn't exactly what we need. If anything we need mame to spit out xml dats via the filtering you feed it, but I know that is never going to happen. |
| B2K24:
I'm not a mamedev and I mean this in the nicest possible way as well. Of course it's your option and choice to continue wasting your time with cheap hardware and un-necessary pointless filtering. I'm going to continue playing the games using the latest convenience of technology which allows me to have a list easily exactly the way I want. You guys obsessing over only having games on your machine that you play is what's out of touch as you say. 30 GB is nothing in today's world and even good enough for your 250 GB 1999 HDD if you don't add CHDs to the mix. You remind me of the guy that spent an entire night creating savestates for all the DECO cassette games thinking he's gonna have some perfection of an Arcade experience because he hated the countdown. He couldn't even be bothered to map a fast forward button to his cab or use a wireless keyboard for such things. Anyway, of course you're free to do what you want. Several Front-ends have adapted to only show Arcade games if you want them too. It also literally takes just minutes to create some sort of favorites listing (again depending on Front-end) to play or show the games you only want displayed. |
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