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Title: Send game lists to text file?
Post by: Turnarcades on April 26, 2010, 11:24:29 am

This is probably a noob question I can't believe I'm asking, but I can't seem to find the exact info I want anywhere online.

I want to dump the game lists from my cab to a text file, which I know is easily done using several tools, but most tools only dump the rom file name (as it appears in the Windows folder), rom names as they appear in the CRC header or dump the info with a load of other tat I'm not interested in like the rom info or audit info from MAME.

I want something to dump the game titles pretty much exactly as they appear on my front-end, with no other info. So for example, wheras MAME's gamelist.txt shows rom name, year, status etc., I would just want the list to dump as it appears when I pick a game eg:

720
Aliens
Bubble Bobble
Cabal
Exidy

etc.

I also want to do this for my other platforms too
any ideas?

Title: Re: Send game lists to text file?
Post by: bkenobi on April 26, 2010, 11:32:02 am

RomLister might help.

Title: Re: Send game lists to text file?
Post by: Congui on April 26, 2010, 01:08:33 pm

Hi there.

From your site, it seems you're using Mamewah as a frontend.  In case that is true, I've quickly made a vbs file that will generate a GameTitles.txt file.  Just execute it from the dos promt with the following sintax: createlist.vbs list.lst

Example: createlist.vbs mame-1.lst

And voilla, GameTitles.txt is generated.

Note, the vbs file must be in the same directory as your list.lst file.

Cheers, :cheers:
Congui

Title: Re: Send game lists to text file?
Post by: Turnarcades on April 26, 2010, 01:25:19 pm

Brilliant Congui, thanks for that. It works great and I've just listed all my games in a few minutes without having to delete all the crap usually obtained.

You should add this item to the file repository on this site, if it's not already there.