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Title: Game description file available?
Post by: Rudi on July 21, 2006, 11:20:11 am

Is there a file, in any usable format, that can tell me the following for each ROM:

-number of simultaneous players
-number of total players
-number of buttons/joysticks/other controls needed
ect

I've been creating a spreadsheet with this info from the Top 100 on KLOV, but was thinking what I can't be the first person to want this.

The reason I do want this is so I can easily figure out how many buttons I need for a cab which will only have a few dozen ROMS, without looking it up each of them in KLOV.  Also, I'd like to use LED-Wiz, or something like it, with translucent buttons on my next 4 player cab, and I'd like only the necessary buttons lit up when the game starts.

Thanks in advance.
-Rudi

Title: Re: Game description file available?
Post by: gamecreature on July 21, 2006, 12:09:19 pm

Have you tried MAWS (http://www.mameworld.net/maws/)?

Title: Re: Game description file available?
Post by: SirPoonga on July 21, 2006, 12:11:36 pm

controls.dat (http://fe.donkeyfly.com/)

Title: Re: Game description file available?
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 21, 2006, 06:26:43 pm

Quote from: Rudi on July 21, 2006, 11:20:11 am

Is there a file, in any usable format, that can tell me the following for each ROM:

No. This data hasn't been collected for every single rom out there, but controls.dat is the closest you'll get.

Title: Re: Game description file available?
Post by: Rudi on July 23, 2006, 09:22:01 am

The control.dat is good.  That will help.

Howard, I believe that PowerMame can use this info to control an LED-Wiz and light up the appropriate buttons.  Is that correct? 

-Rudi

Title: Re: Game description file available?
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 23, 2006, 11:00:38 pm

Not sure.  It was my understanding that pm just used mame's internal data, I could be wrong.