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Title: Software to Sort ROMS
Post by: dwmcqueen on July 14, 2006, 12:52:48 pm

Is there any software out there that will sort roms by both controls (I only have a joystick and 4 buttons) and by year (for example, I only want pre-1989).

Title: Re: Software to Sort ROMS
Post by: MKChamp on July 14, 2006, 01:33:54 pm

I don't know what frontend you use, but I would strongly recommend MAMEWAH. It will let you create different game list based on several different categories(from catlist) such as year, control, type of games, etc...

Title: Re: Software to Sort ROMS
Post by: dwmcqueen on July 14, 2006, 02:25:08 pm

Well, I don't even want to copy over ROMS that don't meet the above.  And I am debating between either DOS or Linux for the box (Linux because I want to run Daphne).

Title: Re: Software to Sort ROMS
Post by: Lilwolf on July 16, 2006, 09:45:17 pm

I wrote a program that would move roms around based on controls used, and a bunch of other features (number of players, screen rotation, age, ect).  But it used the database that my frontend uses.  I asked if anyone thought they would use it (because then instead of using the database, I would just parse the -listxml file directly and have it as a standalone program... nobody seemed interested.

Anyway, I like it a lot and use it to seperate the roms for each of my control panels.  Makes it easy to setup my frontend.

Title: Re: Software to Sort ROMS
Post by: NOP on July 17, 2006, 11:07:10 am

I have also written a program to parse out roms from the xml file generated by MAME:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=55636.0

and here's an example of it being used to locate cocktail, vertical, spinner and trackball games:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=55638.0

-jeff!