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| zerocle:
I just have a quick question, how do the front end's get the rom information(game name, required files, game type, controller, etc. ) from the rom files? is it a database file that they just reference? or a mame function? |
| screaming:
MAME ROM information comes from MAME itself. Front ends will run MAME and pass a commandline parameter (-listxml), which will output an XML file with all the info. Front ends then parse this information and normalize it with its list of available ROMs. |
| Howard_Casto:
Before you ask, other emulators get their data from clrmamepro dat files, which are based on listinfo, which is what listxml is also based upon. |
| zerocle:
Wow thanks for the quick replies guys, that helps alot, I had gone through the mame command line options and I hadnt been able to find it. Thanks for the help :-) |
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