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Title: control types
Post by: st_moose on June 11, 2002, 04:32:24 pm

Does anyone know of a site or a way to generate a report that shows what games use what controls?

ie which use a 4-way joystick, which use an 8 way joystick, trackball, spinner, etc....

thanks..

Title: Re: control types
Post by: cdbrown on June 11, 2002, 07:41:09 pm

Have just sent you an email with excel spreadsheet containing rom name, games, players, controller, button, coins.  This is not 100% acurate.  I can't remember where i got if from but I found it through a link within this forum.

Cheers
-cdbrown

Title: Re: control types(please sendme  too the file)
Post by: tommycoins98 on June 11, 2002, 07:55:16 pm

hi mr cd brown,
I you can sendme that file you make me veryhappy, bacause since 4 week ago I

Title: Re: control types
Post by: jerryjanis on June 11, 2002, 08:33:21 pm

Uh, jeeze, cdbrown, I spend many an hour just trying to figure out what games use which controls...  If you could send it to me, as well, I would be extremely grateful!

jstookey

at

yahoo.com

Thanks!

Title: Re: control types
Post by: jmcg74 on June 11, 2002, 09:31:51 pm

There are some mame front ends that tell you what type of controls are used for each game... arcade@home and emuloader are 2 front ends that I know of that do list what types of controls go with each game.

Title: Re: control types
Post by: gnat3y3 on June 11, 2002, 10:21:33 pm

please send one my way too, i have been working on a catagory file for a month, and have made my way to 'k'

that excel file would save me mucho mucho time, i would be in your debt

natty (at) cosmicbreaks.com

Title: Re: control types
Post by: cdbrown on June 11, 2002, 10:33:32 pm

For those that have requested the file - check your emails as I have sent them.

If anyone could host the file on their website I am happy to send it to them.  That way I won't have to email it out to everyone who wants it  ;).  Let me know if this is possible.

Also - I did not create this file, someone else has but I can't remember who it was to give them the credit.

Cheers
-cdbrown

Title: Re: control types
Post by: jerryjanis on June 11, 2002, 10:33:49 pm

gnat3y3, I'm sending you the file...

Anyone else can download it from:

http://www.geocities.com/jstookey/joystick/gamelist.zip

(until my bandwidth runs out)

Title: Re: control types
Post by: u_rebelscum on June 12, 2002, 02:44:17 am

Quote

Does anyone know of a site or a way to generate a report that shows what games use what controls?

ie which use a 4-way joystick, which use an 8 way joystick, trackball, spinner, etc....

thanks..

typing mame -listinfo > filename will generate an okay output of what games use, with some errors:  if the game used two different types of input (say a spinner and a 8way), only one is listed.

Another list near top of this page (http://www.urebelscum.speedhost.com/), not quite what you're looking for, but it lists all inputs for all games.  Doesn't say if the joystick is 4way or 8way, but gets around the problem of using -listinfo.  However, it has the opposite problem: some games use a common driver that lists all the inputs, but only certain games use certain inputs.  So it has too many inputs for some games.  Take you pick. ;)

BTW, I tried downloading the gamelist.zip, but looks like bandwidth has been exceeded for a couple hours.  Sorry, but I'll try again later.