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Title: MAWS broken?
Post by: Turnarcades on October 05, 2011, 05:13:41 pm
This is probably a stupid question, but I've not used MAWS for a while and now I come back to use it, neither browsing for roms nor searching is turning up any results. Is the site down or am I doing something drastically wrong?
Title: Re: MAWS broken?
Post by: Hoopz on October 05, 2011, 05:22:20 pm
The site is up, which it wasn't a week or two ago.  But you are right that the search function isn't returning any results. 

So, yep, its broke.
Title: Re: MAWS broken?
Post by: Turnarcades on October 05, 2011, 05:29:21 pm
It's not something I use often as I tend to do weeding and filtering manually for accuracy, but right now time's of the essence so is there something similar close to MAWS online?
Title: Re: MAWS broken?
Post by: Vigo on October 05, 2011, 06:39:47 pm
If I remember right, you can do certain filtering things with MameUI.
Title: Re: MAWS broken?
Post by: Turnarcades on October 05, 2011, 06:44:19 pm
If I remember right, you can do certain filtering things with MameUI.
Would have been my second avenue, but unfortunately not detailed enough for the filtering I need to do.
Title: Re: MAWS broken?
Post by: Donkbaca on October 05, 2011, 07:17:26 pm
it is down.  MiniMAWS is up though:
http://maws.mameworld.info/minimaws/ (http://maws.mameworld.info/minimaws/)
Title: Re: MAWS broken?
Post by: Turnarcades on October 05, 2011, 07:58:22 pm
Thanks for the link, but it's not that helpful in this case. A good backup if all else fails though.
Title: Re: MAWS broken?
Post by: NOP on October 06, 2011, 10:52:52 am
romlister is as good or better as any maws search+filtering query.  it takes just a bit more work to set up, but it'll never go offline!

http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister (http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister)
Title: Re: MAWS broken?
Post by: randjamal on October 06, 2011, 11:17:38 am
It's not as good as MAWS, but mamedb.com is passable when MAWS is down. And KLOV is often more accurate than MAWS for things like control type and orientation.