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Is there a MAME database better than MAWS?
Tiger-Heli:
That's what I just said. :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:
mark shaker:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on March 07, 2007, 03:31:28 pm ---Mark - That's basically what Horseboy's link does - a sort routine of MAME games using the controls.ini info.
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Not quite. It's not searchable. I don't see any easy way to figure out what games use:
An Analog Steering Wheel + a 4 Speed Shifter + 2 Analog Pedals
or
An Optical Steering Wheel + an Up/Down Shifter + 1 Analog Pedal
or
A 8 Way Trigger Grip Joystick + a Push-To-Fire Spinner
or
An 8 Way Joystick + 6 Buttons
- Mark
Tiger-Heli:
True - Now that I look at it, it's not very complete either, but we have only ourselves to blame for that.
NOP:
hey gang,
here's something you can try. I took my ROMLister program, and with just a couple minor tweaks, I was able to get it to run with controls.xml
So, first grab this:
http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/controls_dat.php
snag controls.xml.0.111.1.zip
Then go here:
http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/
and grab the controls.xml version of the software.
Run ROMLister and browse for the controls.xml file, and then you should be able to do your normal searching through that file.
This was pretty much just a hack job on it-I am pretty sure I can merge the 2 versions together and just tweak the search keywords based on what input xml file you use.
Kick it around, see if it does what you need, and if it's good, I'll put a bit more work into it. THis was literally a 20min job.
-jeff!
mark shaker:
--- Quote from: NOP on March 08, 2007, 12:00:24 pm ---hey gang,
here's something you can try. I took my ROMLister program, and with just a couple minor tweaks, I was able to get it to run with controls.xml
So, first grab this:
http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/controls_dat.php
snag controls.xml.0.111.1.zip
Then go here:
http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/
and grab the controls.xml version of the software.
Run ROMLister and browse for the controls.xml file, and then you should be able to do your normal searching through that file.
This was pretty much just a hack job on it-I am pretty sure I can merge the 2 versions together and just tweak the search keywords based on what input xml file you use.
Kick it around, see if it does what you need, and if it's good, I'll put a bit more work into it. THis was literally a 20min job.
-jeff!
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Jeff,
If it also searched on the controls.dat keywords, it would be just what what I need.
If you don't have the time to include all the other control names, I do have a plan B. While I'm not yet sure exactly how, I'm sure that I could "flatten" the XML file and then load it into a relational database, so I could run SQL queries on it.
- Mark