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Is there a MAME database better than MAWS?
rockin_rick:
Yes, the program I referenced (RL) does use mame's xml output. So it does suffer from the 'errors', but will allow more advanced sorting (which I what I thought you were mainly interested in...)
If someone would/could write a small app that would take the controls.ini data and "fix" the mame xml output, then you could run 'correct' data through RL and that would be the better than what is currently available. I'm not a (computer) programmer, but it seems doable... I suppose that could be done by hand, but that would be a big job.
Rick
mark shaker:
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--- Quote from: mark shaker on March 05, 2007, 06:56:10 pm ---...Thank you for the reply. But, I think that this is yet another view of the MAWS data.
It says that DDR is played with an 8-way joystick...
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Most of the "MAWS data" comes directly from mame (the -listxml option); the rest comes from history.dat & art stuff. While it's nice to know which know which games used Halls Effect sticks vs Flightsticks vs snapsticks vs normal analog sticks, electronically (and thus to mame codewise) these are the same. Which is why controls.dat exists with the extra info. :)
FWIW, mame calls DDR's input a "16-way" input, but this is grouped as an 8-way in -listxml's output.
FWIW 2, MAWS simplifies some of the info from -listxml: MAWS only shows one input type per game. For example, wacko is listed in MAWS as "double 4 way joystick", while -listxml's output (the source of MAWS info) includes the required trackball as well as the joystick.
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Robin,
Thank you very much for the background info.
I would like to start a simple database that listed the combination of controls by player each game, but with job and family I don't have the time to get that project (or any other) off the ground...
- Mark
jelwell:
wrong thread.
Tiger-Heli:
Joseph - I think you replied to the wrong thread.
Mark - That's basically what Horseboy's link does - a sort routine of MAME games using the controls.ini info.
Buddabing:
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I would like to start a simple database that listed the combination of controls by player each game, but with job and family I don't have the time to get that project (or any other) off the ground...
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This exists already.