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| yamatetsu:
--- Quote from: Hutt on February 12, 2016, 08:09:24 am ---@thomas_surles What did you use to play them? --- End quote --- He is using MAME itself, manually starting each game. That's why I made a batch file for that, it just starts every game automatically. |
| shponglefan:
--- Quote from: PL1 on February 11, 2016, 09:46:00 pm ---Instead of a "taking out garbage" approach, consider using a "bring in goodies" approach. --- End quote --- That's been my approach. I think my last setup had less than 100 games on it, all carefully handpicked. I've never understood the want for those giant arcade game collections, 90% of which it seems are Mahjong clones. |
| Hutt:
--- Quote from: yamatetsu on February 12, 2016, 05:26:50 am ---The biggest hassle for me is having to start each game manually. To avoid this, I use a batch file. The games. I go into the roms directory and start a DOS prompt. Then I make a .bat file that contains the name of all the game roms. dir /b >mametest.bat Now I start a text editor that has a 'macro' feature, opening mametest.bat. I put the cursor at the beginning of line 1. Now I make a macro that puts 'mame ' in front of every rom name (without the ' of course), then goes to the beginning of the line and then goes one line down. Then I use the macro until every line in the .bat is done. Now I have a batch file that starts every .zip file in the roms folder automatically. --- End quote --- I wouldn't mind trying this but not sure how to do what your saying. I opened a command prompt and got up the directory with my mame roms and typed dir /b >mametest.bat space after dir and after /b... but it didn't create a bat file... Also the only text editor I have is notepad... What are you using? A quick search I found one called EmEditor... Also going to look into the romlister and GameEx options. To the people saying that hard space is cheap that's not the point. I have more external drives dedicated to backups than most peoples total hard space... but I just don't want them filled with junk I don't need. Like dkersten said it might be cool to say I have 20,000+ games in my cabinet but who cares when 95% are garbage... and if that's the case why have them at all. I've wasted more time on stupider things so I'll get this done one way or another... at least its a one time thing. |
| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: Hutt on February 12, 2016, 12:04:51 pm --- --- Quote from: yamatetsu on February 12, 2016, 05:26:50 am ---The biggest hassle for me is having to start each game manually. To avoid this, I use a batch file. The games. I go into the roms directory and start a DOS prompt. Then I make a .bat file that contains the name of all the game roms. dir /b >mametest.bat Now I start a text editor that has a 'macro' feature, opening mametest.bat. I put the cursor at the beginning of line 1. Now I make a macro that puts 'mame ' in front of every rom name (without the ' of course), then goes to the beginning of the line and then goes one line down. Then I use the macro until every line in the .bat is done. Now I have a batch file that starts every .zip file in the roms folder automatically. --- End quote --- I wouldn't mind trying this but not sure how to do what your saying. I opened a command prompt and got up the directory with my mame roms and typed dir /b >mametest.bat space after dir and after /b... but it didn't create a bat file... Also the only text editor I have is notepad... What are you using? A quick search I found one called EmEditor... Also going to look into the romlister and GameEx options. To the people saying that hard space is cheap that's not the point. I have more external drives dedicated to backups than most peoples total hard space... but I just don't want them filled with junk I don't need. Like dkersten said it might be cool to say I have 20,000+ games in my cabinet but who cares when 95% are garbage... and if that's the case why have them at all. I've wasted more time on stupider things so I'll get this done one way or another... at least its a one time thing. --- End quote --- I don't tell people I have 20000 + games in my cabinet. But when somebody says hey, have you played <insert title here>, & I haven't, I don't have to go hunting on the internet to find it. For me, it's about convenience. |
| Hutt:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on February 12, 2016, 12:30:18 pm --- I don't tell people I have 20000 + games in my cabinet. But when somebody says hey, have you played <insert title here>, & I haven't, I don't have to go hunting on the internet to find it. For me, it's about convenience. --- End quote --- I don't really foresee that being an issue for me. Most likely anyone playing my machine will not bring up a game I don't have. When I'm done if I don't have it then its probably not worth playing. Anyway... it appears the gambling roms starting with m1 through m5 will kill 8000 roms for me! If this whole process was this simple I'd be done in 20 minutes :-) |
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