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Title: 2 player simultaneous 4-way games?
Post by: Jakobud on July 13, 2004, 07:27:46 pm

How can I figure out what game's controls are setup this way?

Title: Re:2 player simultaneous 4-way games?
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 13, 2004, 07:32:18 pm

ahem.... (controls.dat project) ahem :)

Title: Re:2 player simultaneous 4-way games?
Post by: Jakobud on July 13, 2004, 08:42:50 pm

Okay that sounds like thats the solution.  What do I use to get a list from the controls.dat file of what I need?

Title: Re:2 player simultaneous 4-way games?
Post by: SirPoonga on July 13, 2004, 11:45:04 pm

Well, I think you could do it with mame content manager.  controls.dat isn't going to give you all those games right now.  

Also this seems to be a way to convert ini files to excel :)
http://www.exceltip.com/show_tip/General_Topics_in_VBA/Private_Profile_Strings_using_INI-files_using_VBA_in_Microsoft_Excel/490.html

Title: Re:2 player simultaneous 4-way games?
Post by: Jakobud on July 13, 2004, 11:57:16 pm

Hmm all mame content manager seems to do is rename or delete roms/snaps etc, based off of genre...  I can use SortInfo to determine all 2 player 4-way games, but its the 'simultaneous' thing that is the trick...

Title: Re:2 player simultaneous 4-way games?
Post by: SirPoonga on July 14, 2004, 12:39:47 am

ahh, yeah.  Well, there's where controls.dat would help :)

does sortinfo show which games are cocktail?  most of those are not simutaneous.