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| buks:
Hmmmm I'm being dumb here but......... When I used MameWah I loved the fact that you could easily create category based lists. So if I wanted a list of just sports games I would tick all the sports related categories then it would generate the list. So, I'd like to do that in MaLa now. The game list creating program is great for picking the odd game but not for trying to pick every game of a certain genre. So I then saw that Romlister can generate MaLa lists - whoopeeee !!!!!! Except I can only get it to generate lists using the options at the top of the screen (number of buttons, 2-way/4-way/8-way etc). Any ideas how I can do this ? I did try adding this to the -find command at the bottom of the screen - (category=Sports) But that didn't do anything. Am I doing this wrong or does Romlister not do that ? Thanks for reading, Buks |
| Green Giant:
This one is pretty easy to fix. Basically romlister uses the master.xml file to create the lists. For sports games, use something like this on romlister: (buttons=7 | buttons=6 | buttons=5 | buttons=4 | buttons=3 | buttons=2 | buttons=1 | !buttons=) & !emulation=preliminary & (<category>Sports) I found 554 sports games using that. For detailed categories, open up the xml file and scroll down to a game. I will use Jump Shot as an example. It lists "<category>Sports / Basketball</category>". When using romlister, use the exact phrase from the xml to search. If you want all the sports games except basketball, you would type "(category>Sports) & !Basketball". An only basketball lists would be "& (<category>Sports / Basketball)". I guess if romlister gets a hit on anything about a game, it adds that game to the list, so make sure and use stuff like "category>Sports" instead of just "Sports". Otherwise you might get some random extras like trivia games in your sports section. edit: Caps don't matter on romlister, was thinking of the xml viewer I use. Caps do matter so double check your entries. I ended up creating a list for nearly every category there is. Then use the mala tree and you can organize it as you see fit. |
| CM:
I'll ask a dumb question: Could MaLa or Romlister be updated to include an option for genre/category list creation (without leaving it to the user to know or guess all the various query types)? I would point to GameEx as an example of a FE already doing this. |
| buks:
Looks like Green Giant has answered my query - I'll give it a go now. CM - yep, you have a point. I suspect like a lot of software its a "work in progress" and the author will be more more than willing to add the option people want most (please !!!!). Not averse to the odd bit of "regular expression" from my old unix days.... ahh bliss :) Buks |
| Green Giant:
If you can get NOP to read this thread, then it will probably be done by the end of the week. If you will test it, he will code it. So... NOP romlister ROMlister ROM lister NOP hope you are searching for mentions of your name |
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