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Title: How can I create a list of non-working games?
Post by: gonzo90017 on May 06, 2006, 12:32:39 am: How can I create a list of non-working games?
Title: Re: How can I create a list of non-working games?
Post by: Pi on May 06, 2006, 06:32:44 am: This is how I would do it:

1. Get Logiqx's DatUtil (http://www.logiqx.com/), transform a MAME XML into tab-delimited text keeping details (-k), load in a spreadsheet, and discover which column has the driver status. IIRC it is the first data column in the game_driver rows (so you just need those rows). Sort accordingly, remove the crap, leave the list.

Or:

2. Go to MAWS (http://www.mameworld.net/maws/), select Browse, select by "driver status", select imperfect or preliminary, and copy the list from your browser.

Note that "non-working" games is a loose definition which varies from game to game. Some games marked as non-working can be played, and some games marked as "imperfect" are unplayable.
Title: Re: How can I create a list of non-working games?
Post by: Howard_Casto on May 06, 2006, 05:32:59 pm: Quote from: Pi on May 06, 2006, 06:32:44 am
This is how I would do it:

1. Get Logiqx's DatUtil (http://www.logiqx.com/), transform a MAME XML into tab-delimited text keeping details (-k), load in a spreadsheet, and discover which column has the driver status. IIRC it is the first data column in the game_driver rows (so you just need those rows). Sort accordingly, remove the crap, leave the list.

Or:

2. Go to MAWS (http://www.mameworld.net/maws/), select Browse, select by "driver status", select imperfect or preliminary, and copy the list from your browser.

Note that "non-working" games is a loose definition which varies from game to game. Some games marked as non-working can be played, and some games marked as "imperfect" are unplayable.

What he said.... the short of it, is you really can't make a list of non-working games as mame doesn't output a non-working list.

Imperfect can mean anything from player 3's inputs aren't hooked up to the game *might* crash if you press up 4 times in front of a window in level 5. I've also found the prelimenary tag to be mis-leading. In a few instances even those games are playable, they might just have the wrong color pallette or no sound or something.
Title: Re: How can I create a list of non-working games?
Post by: mackem on May 06, 2006, 08:57:16 pm: http://www.mameworld.net/maws/gamelist.txt

It looks like you have to copy and paste that link into your browser. Direct linking doesn't work.
Title: Re: How can I create a list of non-working games?
Post by: Pi on May 06, 2006, 10:10:27 pm: Gamelist doesn't list clones, unfortunately. Never did, and current renditions of the old file (in MAWS and also in DatUtil) don't do them either.