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Title: Adult ROM filtering
Post by: fatfingers on March 19, 2009, 02:38:58 pm
I realize this has been asked umpteen million times before, but....it seems all the tools I can find online to do this are very outdated.

What is the recommended way these days to filter out Adult ROMs from my romset?  Basically I want to run the MAME screensaver at work, but don't want the adult ROMs included.

Thanks.


EDIT: I have mame106
Title: Re: Adult ROM filtering
Post by: TelcoLou on March 19, 2009, 03:49:10 pm
I used Mame Content Manager for my 40gb full .110 romset. I got rid of all adult and maajong games using it.
Title: Re: Adult ROM filtering
Post by: fatfingers on March 19, 2009, 05:58:15 pm

Seriously?

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MAME Content Manager
Designed and programmed by Douglas Good

Current version: 2.0 Final
Released January 17, 2005
Title: Re: Adult ROM filtering
Post by: NOP on March 19, 2009, 08:19:30 pm
how about romlister then?

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/RL_tutorial_removing_adult_titles

If catver is up to date, so is romlister's output.
Title: Re: Adult ROM filtering
Post by: Turnarcades on March 19, 2009, 09:51:19 pm
None of the availabletools are perfect at doing this so you will probably have to pull a few games out manually anyway. Personally I weeded all those games myself to leave a very clean MAME set without all the non-working/mahjong crap. It takes a while but is worth it.
Title: Re: Adult ROM filtering
Post by: Sardu on March 19, 2009, 10:13:24 pm
When I first put together my mame cab, some relatives came over and wanted to play.  They were 3 girls under 15 and man, it was embarrassing.  Their mom was there watching as the first game they selected was some breakout clone with naked ladies.  The more I explained that I don't play those games and that they were part of a full MAME set, the more confused they got and the more I felt like a perve. lol   ;D
Title: Re: Adult ROM filtering
Post by: ViciousXUSMC on March 19, 2009, 11:25:41 pm
I did the same as turnarcades, go through them and take out what you do not want.  I have an excell spreadsheet and I go through listing the games I like, there full title, mame command (as I use the command line version), type of game it is, and comments.

Im in the M's right now, when I get done with the list from A-Z everything not on my list as a keeper gets deleted..

The reward in doing this is saving space and probably running into a ton  of games you never knew exsisted that you like.

Of course you own every single one of those games rom, so you already knew about them.
Title: Re: Adult ROM filtering
Post by: fatfingers on March 20, 2009, 12:00:06 pm

Thank you.  ROMLister it is.

Title: Re: Adult ROM filtering
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 20, 2009, 12:02:30 pm
I just leave the roms and let Mamewah do the filtering for me, that way I can still play those games if I want (there are some fun games, regardless of content).
Title: Re: Adult ROM filtering
Post by: Silverwind on March 23, 2009, 12:20:10 pm
When I first put together my mame cab, some relatives came over and wanted to play.  They were 3 girls under 15 and man, it was embarrassing.  Their mom was there watching as the first game they selected was some breakout clone with naked ladies.  The more I explained that I don't play those games and that they were part of a full MAME set, the more confused they got and the more I felt like a perve. lol   ;D

yeow, did they ever come back to play again?
Title: Re: Adult ROM filtering
Post by: Crapahute on March 24, 2009, 03:21:30 am
You could have a try with http://www.mamedata.com (http://www.mamedata.com)

It is a personal tool I use in this case.
Title: Re: Adult ROM filtering
Post by: garnerb350 on March 24, 2009, 08:47:42 am
Be careful and doublecheck with Romlister...There has been cases where I made lists and I ended up losing games i wanted and getting games i did not want...

Title: Re: Adult ROM filtering
Post by: NOP on March 24, 2009, 09:29:48 am
tell me more about these errors you were seeing.
i wrote the dern thing, I might be able to fix it if I knew the problem!
Title: Re: Adult ROM filtering
Post by: urbecrisch on March 24, 2009, 10:45:20 am
When I first put together my mame cab, some relatives came over and wanted to play.  They were 3 girls under 15 and man, it was embarrassing.  Their mom was there watching as the first game they selected was some breakout clone with naked ladies.  The more I explained that I don't play those games and that they were part of a full MAME set, the more confused they got and the more I felt like a perve. lol   ;D

Funny S**T!
Title: Re: Adult ROM filtering
Post by: clok on March 24, 2009, 11:53:23 am
majong gone=bliss  I may have to look into this, dont want rid of the Adult games (gals panic is actually quite fun i think) but being rid of majong... it almost brings a tear of joy to my eye. Downside is 50% of the games in the working list would be gone.


Clok