Help with Ipac and gamelists

[Sprawler]

I have been searching a bit but cant find anything specific.
My first question is with the ipac, I have managed to get it to reprogram according to what game is loaded, but I
was wondering is there a way to get it to reprogram according to the bios used. Example is the metal slug series
which uses the neogeo button layout, but it wont reprogram if I name the ipc neogeo.
Second question is with gamelists if I remove the clones it removes some games like metal slug 6 which is a clone
of metal slug 3 but a totally different game. Not sure if there are many other games like this. Is there a way to
remove real clones without removing clones which are separate games.

PS. Sorry if its hard to understand, still half asleep 

[loadman]

My first question is with the ipac, I have managed to get it to reprogram according to what game is loaded, but I
was wondering is there a way to get it to reprogram according to the bios used. Example is the metal slug series
which uses the neogeo button layout, but it wont reprogram if I name the ipc neogeo.

Not at present

[NOP]

Second question is with gamelists if I remove the clones it removes some games like metal slug 6 which is a clone
of metal slug 3 but a totally different game. Not sure if there are many other games like this. Is there a way to
remove real clones without removing clones which are separate games.

Oooh!  a gamelist question...

what I'd do here is grab romlister:
http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister

and plug in your various controls and screen orientation and whatever else your machine has. 

Click the "no clones" checkbox.

then go into the text box at the bottom, and remove the ! from "!cloneof" toward the end of that jumble of text.

Click the Go! button and you should get a list of all of the clones. 

You can export that list as a text file or even as a mala game list if you like, but I'd go through that by hand to see what all games you're missing when you take out the clones.  There just might be some gems in there.

[Sprawler]

Not at present

Does that mean its coming? 

Oooh!  a gamelist question...

what I'd do here is grab romlister:
http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister

and plug in your various controls and screen orientation and whatever else your machine has. 

Click the "no clones" checkbox.

then go into the text box at the bottom, and remove the ! from "!cloneof" toward the end of that jumble of text.

Click the Go! button and you should get a list of all of the clones. 

You can export that list as a text file or even as a mala game list if you like, but I'd go through that by hand to see what all games you're missing when you take out the clones.  There just might be some gems in there.

Will have a try, thanks!

[clok]

I have been fighting this the last few days. I basicly want to remove all clones all majong, and all non english. I have looked at Romlister but am still confused.

I keep getting" invalid input file. Unable to locate MAME or controls.xml header"

I followed instructions for the first run, but i must have messed something up. How does it rember the locations of the cat and controls files? Can I reset it so to speak? so I can point it at everyting again?

I have went into setting and no matter what i get that error. This is Vista64.

[NOP]

I've never tried it on vista 64.  It is possible I suppose that something there is wonky.
What version of MAME are you using?  It's also possible that MAME has changed their XML format in newer versions.  My last test was MAME 0.127

contact me offline (my email address is at the bottom of the romlister web page) and we'll work through this faster than posting on the forum.


>I followed instructions for the first run, but i must have messed something up. How does it rember the locations of the cat and controls files? Can I reset it so to speak? so I can point it at everyting again?

just click the browse button and you can pick the file wherever it is on your hard drive.

You also likely won't be able to weed out all the non-english games.  The region setting stuff can be used to weed out some, but a lot of games simply don't have any region coding at all, so there's no way to know.