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Title: Mame Info Resources
Post by: EssexMame on June 20, 2013, 05:11:31 am

What is the best site (or sites) to categorically determine what Roms need BIOS and CHD, and which ones? mamedb.com gives some info but I've not seen a resource that lists the BIOS and CHD's needed for each rom - is there one (or a combo of a couple of sites)?

Title: Re: Mame Info Resources
Post by: edekoning on June 20, 2013, 09:41:19 am

Doesn't that depend on the Mame version that you are using? Anyway, its all in the mame.xml file. I have a script should be able to extract such information in csv format. I'll give it a try when I get home.

Title: Re: Mame Info Resources
Post by: Malenko on June 20, 2013, 09:43:06 am

download mameUI , it categorizes the games by BIOS and CHD as well.

Title: Re: Mame Info Resources
Post by: EssexMame on June 20, 2013, 10:25:06 am

excellent - will do - thanks

Title: Re: Mame Info Resources
Post by: edekoning on June 21, 2013, 02:53:20 pm

Here is the csv file I promised (had to change extension to txt). It contains the following data for each rom (mame 145):

name;disk_name;biosset_name;biosset_description

Note that I only included the first biosset.