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Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on November 10, 2015, 10:47:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on November 06, 2015, 06:10:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on November 06, 2015, 12:54:20 am ---CoinOps 6. Every game works, on a $10 console. ::)

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:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

Every game that will run on a crappy old xbox you mean.

Am I going to have to block you or were you just having a bad day?

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It works and all my games I play are in one place.

Arcade friendly and cheap with a nice interface. Let's see your wii do that.

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I think you've lost your mind ark. We are talking about a solution to MAME on the PERSONAL COMPUTER. Suggesting people use a console, which doesn't support their front end of choice, or more modern emulators like supermodel or pc games or mamehooker or led blinky is NOT a viable solution. WTF does the Wii have to do with that?

pbj:
What does Supermodel or PC games have to do with MAME?

B2K24:

--- Quote from: dkersten on November 05, 2015, 11:42:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: B2K24 on November 03, 2015, 05:38:07 pm ---You're the one missing the point.

You and everyone else don't need to create a custom romset. Instead simply create your own custom game listing or favorites listing that fully customizable and can be altered/changed anytime you want.

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Frankly you sound like someone who relies on MameUI to play, which does help to find what you want fairly easy. But it isn't cab friendly.
Have you tried to build a list of all playable arcade games from a complete rom library in a FE like MaLa??? It takes days. Pain in the ass, and once you make a change to your file structure (ie by doing a major upgrade from one version of Mame to another) you have to start over. If you have other emulators in the same list, as soon as you go and edit the list with the easier to use tools, you lose all your manual settings. Sure, part of the problem is MaLa hasn't been updated in too long, but the point is that it shouldn't be that tough at all. Being able to simply filter out the files you want and move the rest to an archive would be great, and having supporting software be OK with that without jumping through hoops would be even better. With a folder of just the roms I want to load on the machine, I can cut a setup in MaLa down by hours and hours.

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No. MameUI is Trash tier when it comes to Front-Ends. Using MaLa isn't the best decision either because it's a dead project from what I understand.

Cab users should be using either HyperSpin or GameEX as both do exactly what I've said about easily creating a favorites listing. GameEX even has config options in it's setup wizard that lets you adjust filters depending on your preference all without shuffling files or stripping out romsets.

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Several HyperSpin community members also create custom XMLs which controls exactly how the game list is generated again all without needing to scan or get names from the global romset.

I understand the nostalgia about continuing to use the Front-end as the very first one that you've discovered MAME with, but if it's no longer developed or updated, you should be probably ditching it and using the latest and better options.

Yenome:
I hated going through the list of all the games to only get the ones i wanted too keep. I even did it the lazy way and it still took time. I didn't want any mature, Gambling, Mahjong, Quiz, and no clones unless it was one I used to play. Filtered out all the games that their driver status wasn't "good". did it all using romlister and clrmamepro. Used romlister to make my XML file and used the XML file as the database for clrmamepro. Then ran it against the huge list of 24k files i had. now down to 1,437 altho i think i may redo my list again and change the main filter to like howard said and make it to where prelim drivers are excluded.

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: B2K24 on November 11, 2015, 02:41:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: dkersten on November 05, 2015, 11:42:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: B2K24 on November 03, 2015, 05:38:07 pm ---You're the one missing the point.

You and everyone else don't need to create a custom romset. Instead simply create your own custom game listing or favorites listing that fully customizable and can be altered/changed anytime you want.

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Frankly you sound like someone who relies on MameUI to play, which does help to find what you want fairly easy. But it isn't cab friendly.
Have you tried to build a list of all playable arcade games from a complete rom library in a FE like MaLa??? It takes days. Pain in the ass, and once you make a change to your file structure (ie by doing a major upgrade from one version of Mame to another) you have to start over. If you have other emulators in the same list, as soon as you go and edit the list with the easier to use tools, you lose all your manual settings. Sure, part of the problem is MaLa hasn't been updated in too long, but the point is that it shouldn't be that tough at all. Being able to simply filter out the files you want and move the rest to an archive would be great, and having supporting software be OK with that without jumping through hoops would be even better. With a folder of just the roms I want to load on the machine, I can cut a setup in MaLa down by hours and hours.

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No. MameUI is Trash tier when it comes to Front-Ends. Using MaLa isn't the best decision either because it's a dead project from what I understand.

Cab users should be using either HyperSpin or GameEX as both do exactly what I've said about easily creating a favorites listing. GameEX even has config options in it's setup wizard that lets you adjust filters depending on your preference all without shuffling files or stripping out romsets.

--- End quote ---

Several HyperSpin community members also create custom XMLs which controls exactly how the game list is generated again all without needing to scan or get names from the global romset.

I understand the nostalgia about continuing to use the Front-end as the very first one that you've discovered MAME with, but if it's no longer developed or updated, you should be probably ditching it and using the latest and better options.

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So your solution is to severely limit our options by giving us a choice of a whopping 2 front-ends, one of which is so graphically busy that half the community hates it with a furious passion.

That's about as dumb a suggestion as using mameui or using the command line.

Again, mame should be able to print a useable, filterable, game list by itself. It was one thing when mame just did arcade games and the game count was fairly small but now mame is so huge it takes it 1-2 minutes just to print the frikkin xml file!

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