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Title: Quick way to delete all MAME mechanical roms?
Post by: jimmy2x2x on March 01, 2012, 11:17:44 am

Is there any way to output just the mechanical games from mame, or another easy route to get the rom names so I can delete them?

Thanks

Title: Re: Quick way to delete all MAME mechanical roms?
Post by: ark_ader on March 02, 2012, 04:18:03 pm

Quote from: jimmy2x2x on March 01, 2012, 11:17:44 am

Is there any way to output just the mechanical games from mame, or another easy route to get the rom names so I can delete them?

Thanks

Simple go to your closet, workshop, storage shed and fish out all the mechanical games that you own and match them up to what is listed in Mame.  :laugh2:

Seriously it sucks to have these in MAME anyway.  Couldn't the mamedevs just fork these mechanical roms that don't work?  What a PITA.

This application will help you weed them out.

http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/ (http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/)

Title: Re: Quick way to delete all MAME mechanical roms?
Post by: jimmy2x2x on March 02, 2012, 04:23:57 pm

Aye I generated a master list without the mechanical games:

In the -find text, in the section that says something like this:
!('BIOS' | casino | minigames | mature)

just add "Electromechanical" like this:

!('BIOS' | casino | minigames | mature | Electromechanical)

Thanks to Jeff (RomLister coder)