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Title: List of vertical games in mame.
Post by: SirPoonga on January 19, 2003, 04:06:22 am: http://www.geocities.com/thepinnyparlour/
Title: Re:List of vertical games in mame.
Post by: )p( on January 19, 2003, 08:48:49 am: Quote from: SirPoonga on January 19, 2003, 04:06:22 am
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what is so special about that...sortinfo can give you such a list for years ;-)
and most fe's can filter them out anyway...

peter
Title: Re:List of vertical games in mame.
Post by: Cowboy Mac on January 19, 2003, 08:51:35 am: sortinfo is a very useful way of deciding on what you acually 'need' in you control panel.
Title: Re:List of vertical games in mame.
Post by: Frostillicus on January 19, 2003, 11:07:17 am: I always just export the whole list from sortinfo into excel - you can do a lot more with it there.
Title: Re:List of vertical games in mame.
Post by: MrBond on January 19, 2003, 11:54:24 am: Sorry for my ignorance, but what the heck is "sortinfo"???
Title: Re:List of vertical games in mame.
Post by: telengard on January 19, 2003, 10:11:21 pm: Quote from: MrBond on January 19, 2003, 11:54:24 am
Sorry for my ignorance, but what the heck is "sortinfo"???

If it's the tool I've used in the past, it parses the output of a mame with
a certain command line argument, and shows an excel like table with
all kinds of information for each game. What fields are shown can be
modified IIRC.
Title: Re:List of vertical games in mame.
Post by: OSCAR on January 19, 2003, 10:19:03 pm: Quote from: MrBond on January 19, 2003, 11:54:24 am
Sorry for my ignorance, but what the heck is "sortinfo"???

Nice little utility. Becareful with the results, though. It parses the information from the mame -listinfo command, and MAME isn't exactly accurate when it comes to control configurations. MAME categorizes Galaga as having an 8-way joystick (it is really a 2-way!).

http://hem.passagen.se/robert.palmqvist/Downloads/downloads.html
Title: Re:List of vertical games in mame.
Post by: SirPoonga on January 19, 2003, 10:25:39 pm: Quote from: OSCAR on January 19, 2003, 10:19:03 pm
Quote from: MrBond on January 19, 2003, 11:54:24 am
Sorry for my ignorance, but what the heck is "sortinfo"???

Nice little utility. Becareful with the results, though. It parses the information from the mame -listinfo command, and MAME isn't exactly accurate when it comes to control configurations. MAME categorizes Galaga as having an 8-way joystick (it is really a 2-way!).

http://hem.passagen.se/robert.palmqvist/Downloads/downloads.html

All 2ways come up like that in mame. A liitle flaw in they didn;t make a bit pattern for 2ways.
Title: Re:List of vertical games in mame.
Post by: OSCAR on January 19, 2003, 10:29:47 pm: Quote from: SirPoonga on January 19, 2003, 10:25:39 pm
All 2ways come up like that in mame. A liitle flaw in they didn;t make a bit pattern for 2ways.

There are quite a few more errors other than the 2-ways from what I understand, I just used that as an example. If you follow RGVAC, then you will seem them talk about the MAME inaccuracy errors like this from time to time.
Title: Re:List of vertical games in mame.
Post by: MrBond on January 21, 2003, 10:26:16 pm: There wouldn't be a need for the controls.dat project if it worked perfectly
:)
Title: Re:List of vertical games in mame.
Post by: jerryjanis on January 22, 2003, 05:28:10 am: It seems like the controls.dat would be a good reference if Mame were updated to be correct, though.