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| thomas_surles:
I wouldn't suggest my approach. it took several hours out of several days. I actually downloaded the roms about 5 at a time, ghave them a quick test. then decided to keep or delete. if one didn't work I went by the screenshots and decided if it was worth the trouble of getting that one working or move on. just a side note. I was able to find some good gems I have never heard of doing it this way. so don't be afraid to play some games you have never heard of. there are plenty of relatively unkown games in there. a terrible method for most but I actually enjoyed doing it this way. and I can actually say that I have played every mame game I have. even if it was for only a minute. oh and I am not done. I started by hand picking all the games I wanted or that were suggested in a top list. then I started the alphabetically. I am only up to the letter L... |
| Hutt:
--- Quote from: yamatetsu on February 12, 2016, 04:16:30 pm ---De nada. Glad that my 'complicated' method is useful after all. Now I'm waiting to see how much you can whittle down those 15,509 lines ... --- End quote --- Hopefully quite fast... its at about 10,100 now.... thanks again, Bro. --- Quote --- It's used as a test and evaluation system. If someone on the forums mentions a game that sounds interesting, it's easy to check it out. When it comes time to transfer files to the cab, you leave the archives behind and only transfer the desired games/artwork/support files. Scott --- End quote --- That's why I'm going to run all the games before I delete them.... many (most) based on interest will not even need to be run. If something like you mention ever happens then its minimal effort to reacquire the rom. But who knows... I have the roms and art zipped into two large files... I may just leave them stored somewhere... --- Quote from: thomas_surles on February 12, 2016, 08:27:07 pm ---I wouldn't suggest my approach. it took several hours out of several days. I actually downloaded the roms about 5 at a time, ghave them a quick test. then decided to keep or delete. if one didn't work I went by the screenshots and decided if it was worth the trouble of getting that one working or move on. just a side note. I was able to find some good gems I have never heard of doing it this way. so don't be afraid to play some games you have never heard of. there are plenty of relatively unkown games in there. a terrible method for most but I actually enjoyed doing it this way. and I can actually say that I have played every mame game I have. even if it was for only a minute. oh and I am not done. I started by hand picking all the games I wanted or that were suggested in a top list. then I started the alphabetically. I am only up to the letter L... --- End quote --- That sounds like it would take years if you actually downloaded EVERY rom like that.... the gambling roms alone (most of which don't even work I think) is well over 10000 The batch file that yamatetsu suggested is awesome in that as soon as you exit a game the next instantly launches. You can zip thought a lot of games really fast this way. I'm using that in combination with MAME UI... this is what I used to weed out most of the gambling stuff in a hurry since I can sort by manufacturer and non working and also that is shows a snapshot of each game. So if I see a game I never heard of and it simply some DigDug clone I can skip that since I'll just use the real one... Many games don't even have snapshots which means that they either don't work or probably suck. I have something going on this weekend or I would have tried to beat the hell out of this rom collection but I'm hoping to be through it all by next weekend. |
| thomas_surles:
the gambling part was easy I just skipped everything that sounded like a slots or mojong game. |
| Hutt:
Yeah.... I honestly don't know why they even bother with it... at the least every gambling rom should start with the same prefix like 'gam' to make them easy for people to avoid. It'll be cool going through all the games though...I'm sure I'll discover some really good ones I never heard of... for example I'm a huge Robotron fan since back in the day... but just found Smash TV like a year which is very similar. |
| BadMouth:
Last time I did this it was on MAME v.146 IIRC, I started out with 8 or 9 thousand roms. Working with romlister to delete the adult, gambling, mechanical, clones, etc got it down to around 1,200. I probably pruned a 50 or 60 more by hand that were missed because they weren't flagged properly. ....and that was leaving in games which I didn't have proper controls for. I also removed large chunks of the xml file by hand, which took forever. Having a smaller xml file is important to me because I have to modify it to add arcade games that run on other emulators so they all show up in my MAME gamelist. (getting off topic though) I've just downloaded a v.170 romset and waiting on the CHDs to finish. When that is done, I plan to make a hand picked list based on the gamelists in my cab and a batch file to copy only needed roms over. It will probably end up around 500-600 games. That's still a lot, but the fighting and shmup gamelists on my cab are just under 200 games each. I will share my lists when I get to them. |
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