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Easy way to edit Mame.lst file in Maximus 2.10?

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viking245:
In Preferences, check your Mame configuration, Scan tab.  Is only
--- Code: ---.zip
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listed there?  Or is it something like
--- Code: ---.zip, .bin
--- End code ---
Should only have   .zip

If it is only   .zip   , then you probably have some non-playable games that just need to be deleted from the folder.

Wzrd0803:

--- Quote from: viking245 on October 24, 2018, 03:22:06 pm ---In Preferences, check your Mame configuration, Scan tab.  Is only
--- Code: ---.zip
--- End code ---
listed there?  Or is it something like
--- Code: ---.zip, .bin
--- End code ---
Should only have   .zip

If it is only   .zip   , then you probably have some non-playable games that just need to be deleted from the folder.

--- End quote ---

Sorry, I didn't state clearly what I was asking.  The BIOS files like NAMCO50, NAMCO51, stvbios, etc. is what I keep having to remove from the games list.

viking245:
OK. I understand now. But now I'm wondering why the bios files are even being listed.
(this is kinda bugging me, and I'm bound and determined to figure this out. Or have someone else tell us)  ;D

I believe Maximus Arcade (MA) get it's list (.lst file) from: executing mame64.exe -listxml, then comparing that with the roms folder to get the available games and their 'proper' names. So it shouldn't 'show' the bios files on the list.

Maybe... (as a thought)
In MA Preferences, Options, MAME
...check "Disable unplayable roms.."
(I really don't know. Just reaching....)

What emulator are you using to run the MAME games? I assume mame64.
Is your mame64.exe compatible with (the same version as) your roms?
(not sure how much difference these would make for this issue)


If worse comes to worse and MA does not cooperate (though it should), I found another (multi-step) way of creating a mame.lst file of your games without having to go through and delete individual roms/bios/games... off the list.
(Run mame to generate an xml of your [working] games. Run [something like] LightSpeed to convert it to a 'special' MA-type txt file. Then run Game List Converter to convert that to a MA .lst file.)

nexusmtz:
Drive-by answer:

Set up your mame.ini to use two rom directories, like
rompath       c:\mame\roms;c:\mame\noshow

Move the bios files to noshow. They'll still be available to MAME, but Maximus won't see them when you scan the roms directory.

Good luck.

viking245:
Holy guacamole!  I figured it had to be something simple.  Didn't think it would be that simple.

Thanks nexusmtz!

Still a little perplexed though that MA is grabbing the bios files as games.
Based on the thought that it needs the mame created xml file to [at minimum] get a games' name.
i.e. Donkey Kong vs. dkong
...and mame knowing that namco50 is not a game.


Regardless, gotta love a good [Homer Simpson - forehead slap] "doh!" solution!! ;D

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