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Title: Search ROMS?
Post by: MameJunkie on October 21, 2004, 11:57:29 pm
There must be a tool out there that allows us to search our ROM's and sort/filter them base on controls used.  Like 4-way joy or 8-way joy...number of buttons.

Can someone tell me what software will do that?
I tried ClrMamePro but not quite what I wanted.
Title: Re:Search ROMS?
Post by: Minwah on October 22, 2004, 05:26:36 am
Use a FE and use custom filtered lists to do this...

Note MW cannot filter on no. buttons, I suspect DK and some others can.
Title: Re:Search ROMS?
Post by: MameJunkie on October 22, 2004, 02:25:52 pm
Thanks, I'll give that a shot.

Let me tell you guys what I'll trying to do, maybe there is another solution to my problem.

I'm building a cocktail cab for old games like Ms Pacman and such.  I need to know what games uses 4 way, and of those, what is the max buttons I'll need.  2, 3, or 4?

I'm setting up the cab with modular CP.
4-way, 8-way figher style, trackball/spinner.

I would like to group/filter the games so that only
the games that are meant to be played on a particular CP will show up.
Title: Re:Search ROMS?
Post by: JoyMonkey on October 22, 2004, 02:33:54 pm
You could try SortInfo (http://hem.passagen.se/robert.palmqvist/Downloads/downloads.html), it's what I used to make the vertical/horizontal sorting BAT's on my site (http://mame.joymonkey.com).

But as a lot of people will tell you, SortInfo gets its information from Mame's ListInfo, which is not entirely accurate controls-wise. I think it's still a good place to start though.
Title: Re:Search ROMS?
Post by: MameJunkie on October 22, 2004, 02:52:47 pm
You could try SortInfo (http://hem.passagen.se/robert.palmqvist/Downloads/downloads.html), it's what I used to make the vertical/horizontal sorting BAT's on my site (http://mame.joymonkey.com).

But as a lot of people will tell you, SortInfo gets its information from Mame's ListInfo, which is not entirely accurate controls-wise. I think it's still a good place to start though.

Ahhh...looks good...thanks alot. ;D