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Title: Game Lists
Post by: wmanst on March 24, 2015, 03:20:04 pm

I have been using mala for a while im satisfied but whats missing is custom game lists for a system lets say neo geo, cps1 , cps2 , cps3.I know i can do them  manualy but its time consuming so if anyone have them ready that would be great .

Thanks

Title: Re: Game Lists
Post by: Malenko on March 24, 2015, 03:50:17 pm

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,140777.msg1472934.html#msg1472934 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,140777.msg1472934.html#msg1472934)

Title: Re: Game Lists
Post by: wmanst on March 24, 2015, 03:58:09 pm

Thanks for the link Malenko now i have neo geo game list :) Now if anyone have cps 1 and 2 game list ?

Title: Re: Game Lists
Post by: mike boss on March 24, 2015, 07:16:29 pm

ROMlister is awesome!
I used that and created an all Nintendo list (FUN-tendo I called it).
I think you could do the same thing for CPS1 and 2.
I forget how I did it tho........sorry

Title: Re: Game Lists
Post by: wmanst on March 24, 2015, 09:22:37 pm

I have tried already romlister and that doesnt make it much easier to do a cps1 or 2 gamelist only listing genre

Title: Re: Game Lists
Post by: BadMouth on March 25, 2015, 01:54:10 pm

you can make a list based on mame driver, which should yield cp1 and 2 lists

sorry, don't have time for a full explanation of how to do it.

Title: Re: Game Lists
Post by: NOP on March 25, 2015, 07:44:56 pm

It's really quite easy with romlister.

Assuming you already have a valid MAME input XML file, simply highlight all the text in the -find window, delete it, and paste in this instead: sourcefile="cps1.c"
and then press enter.  That will give you a list of every game in MAME that uses the cps1 system.

If you want the cps2's you replace the -find text with this:

sourcefile="cps2.c"

If you want to trim your lists down to genres, no clones, etc, do your normal checkbox tweaking to build up your -find criteria and then ADD this to the end:
& sourcefile="cps1.c"
or
& sourcefile="cps2.c"

Title: Re: Game Lists
Post by: wmanst on March 25, 2015, 09:05:22 pm

Thanks NOP thats what i was looking for. I have made the list well done.Is there a list of mame drivers i could use because i was trying to list Toaplan.c and it didnt find anythin as well neogeo.c what im doin wrong ?

Title: Re: Game Lists
Post by: NOP on March 25, 2015, 09:50:21 pm

for neogeo, try this:

sourcefile="neogeo

There must be multiple neogeo* source files with different names, which is why you didn't find it directly with simply "neogeo.c"
(remember romlister is a simple text search tool)

For toaplan, or any other group that you want to search like this, type in a game you know is of that group into the "rom search" function.  I typed in "whoopee" into the window.

RL comes up with a small-ish list of games.  2x click on any game in that list and you will eventually be shown the XML behind that game.
The first line is the stuff you want: "<game name="pipibibsbl" sourcefile="toaplan2.c" c..."

So then do a -find: text of sourcefile="toaplan2.c" and you'll get your list.

anything that is in that XML data for any game is fair game to search on, and of course you can combine multiple search items together on the same -find line to dig out whatever criteria you want.  Have fun!

Title: Re: Game Lists
Post by: wmanst on March 26, 2015, 05:34:20 am

Thats a comprehensive help NOP thanks again..Now i have all the game lists i ever need..Listing by driver is usefull and romlister too.