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Title: What ROM name is what game?
Post by: Encryptor on February 18, 2007, 09:53:22 pm

Is there a listing or a program some where that tells what game each ROM is? Something besides the funky names some of the ROMs have.

Encryptor

Title: Re: What ROM name is what game?
Post by: Havok on February 18, 2007, 11:35:51 pm

Mame can do that:

mame.exe -listfull > games.txt

Title: Re: What ROM name is what game?
Post by: Encryptor on February 19, 2007, 04:57:57 pm

Thank you very much for the info.  Ok. If you don't mind here's another. I'm using Mamewah for a frontend. Is there any way to make them list with their proper names either through the frontend or have mame pass the right names to the frontend? I hope that's not too confusing.

Encryptor

Title: Re: What ROM name is what game?
Post by: bfauska on February 19, 2007, 07:12:19 pm

I haven't really had much experiance with it yet but I know it has to do with the list_generation_method.  You need it to compare your rom files with the known list of available games.  It works for me when I use the default list_generation_method for mame of rom_folder_vs_listxml.  Here is a copy of my mame.ini:

### mame.ini (mamewah v1.62) ###

emulator_title                            MAME

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  C:\Emulation\Mame32\roms
rom_extension                             zip
dat_file                                  auto:[emuexepath]\[emuexename].dat
nms_file                                  auto:[emuexepath]\[emuexename].nms
catver_ini_file                           auto:[emuexepath]\catver.ini
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listxml

### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines             
emulator_commandline                      C:\Emulation\Mame32\mame32.exe "[rompath]\[name].[romext]"
post_emulator_app_commandlines           
general_app_commandlines                 

### Artwork Settings ###
artwork_image_paths                       auto:[emuexepath]\snap;[emuexepath]\titles;[emuexepath]\marquee;
[emuexepath]\control;[emuexepath]\cabinet;[emuexepath]\flyers;[emuexepath]\boxart;
[emuexepath]\cart;[emuexepath]\art9;[emuexepath]\art10
movie_preview_path                        auto:[emuexepath]\previews
movie_artwork_no                          1
enable_fuzzy_search                       0
history_dat_file                          auto
history_dat_artwork_no                    2

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               1
select_random_game                        0
saver_type                                gamelist_slideshow
movie_path                               
movie_fullscreen                          1
quit_delay                                0
saver_commandline                         

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                               
lcd_display_file_path                     
description_display                       [description]{scroll}

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              0






Don't know if it'll help, but hopefully.

Later,
Brian

Title: Re: What ROM name is what game?
Post by: Encryptor on February 19, 2007, 07:47:38 pm

I'm not sure if that is the issue or not. I know I couldn't even get a list until I took the listxml part of this
statement "rom_folder_vs_listxml" out. I also don't know where you got the

auto:[emuexepath]\[emuexename].dat

statement. Below is my ini file and it doesn't have those statements. I had to put the paths in my ini file.


### mame.ini (mamewah v1.62) ###

emulator_title                            M.A.M.E.

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  c:\mame\roms
rom_extension                             zip
dat_file                                  mameinfo.dat
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           c:\mame\catver.ini
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines             
emulator_commandline                      c:\mame\mame.exe [name] -mouse {nodosbox}
post_emulator_app_commandlines           
general_app_commandlines                 

### Artwork Settings ###
artwork_image_paths                       c:\mame\snap
movie_preview_path                        c:\mame\previews
movie_artwork_no                          1
enable_fuzzy_search                       0
history_dat_file                         
history_dat_artwork_no                    2

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               1
select_random_game                        0
saver_type                                gamelist_slideshow
movie_path                               
movie_fullscreen                          1
quit_delay                                0
saver_commandline                         

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                               
lcd_display_file_path                     
description_display                       [description]{scroll}

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              1


Encryptor

Title: Re: What ROM name is what game?
Post by: bfauska on February 20, 2007, 03:52:20 am

Most of my .ini file was filled out by mamewah after running it once.  I know that there was a problem in the initial release of the current version where it wasn't generating gamelists.  The release that worked is MAMEWAH v1.62b13a (07/02/07) in the what's new text file it should be listed at the top, with a bug fix about the list_generation.  Maybe you should see if you need to download that instead.  Other than that I got nothing... I have barely grasped the basics of MameWah myself.

Good Luck,
Brian

Title: Re: What ROM name is what game?
Post by: Encryptor on February 20, 2007, 05:45:04 am

I have the latest version. Maybe I need to delete my current cfg and ini files and let Mamewah remake them. I'll
try that and see what happens. Thanks for the help.

Encryptor