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Title: Frontend that bases MAME game list on available ROMs?
Post by: Blanka on May 12, 2009, 12:59:21 pm: On the mac I'm used to MacMame and Emulaunch. Both programs base the game list in Mame on the available roms.
With Mame OSX and all the PC frontends, they seem to start with the gigantic 8000+ standard gamelist of all MAME roms, which you have to clean up, by hand or with programs like Romlister.

What I look for is a frontend that makes a list of games based on the contents of the ROM folder. Is there any?
And more specific: if the folder contains pacman.zip, I want it to display Pac Man (midway), not Puckman and then under the clones "Pac Man". Is there a front end that works a bit like I suggest? I like the displayed names to be editable too.
Title: Re: Frontend that bases MAME game list on available ROMs?
Post by: brian_hoffman on May 12, 2009, 01:33:24 pm: Gameex will scan your rom directory and you can toggle between show only available roms and show all roms. You can also configure it to not show mahjong or adult games and filter or include/exclude any game you want.

Puckman is the original pacman. Pacman is a clone. You will need to either have show clones enabled or add it to the do not filter list.
Title: Re: Frontend that bases MAME game list on available ROMs?
Post by: Ummon on May 12, 2009, 03:51:12 pm: Yeah, same with MaLa, Maximus, probably others. You just have to find the feature.
Title: Re: Frontend that bases MAME game list on available ROMs?
Post by: NOP on May 12, 2009, 04:40:28 pm: heck, romlister itself can do that for ya!
I added a rom scanning utility in build016.
Title: Re: Frontend that bases MAME game list on available ROMs?
Post by: Cakemeister on May 12, 2009, 05:07:11 pm: Quote from: Blanka on May 12, 2009, 12:59:21 pm
On the mac I'm used to MacMame and Emulaunch. Both programs base the game list in Mame on the available roms.
With Mame OSX and all the PC frontends, they seem to start with the gigantic 8000+ standard gamelist of all MAME roms, which you have to clean up, by hand or with programs like Romlister.

What I look for is a frontend that makes a list of games based on the contents of the ROM folder. Is there any?
And more specific: if the folder contains pacman.zip, I want it to display Pac Man (midway), not Puckman and then under the clones "Pac Man". Is there a front end that works a bit like I suggest? I like the displayed names to be editable too.

Lots of them. For MAMEwah it would be easier to use Romlister or similar utility. Kymaera, Khameleon, others have this option in the config program.
Title: Re: Frontend that bases MAME game list on available ROMs?
Post by: youki on May 13, 2009, 05:02:35 pm: AtomicFE does too.
Title: Re: Frontend that bases MAME game list on available ROMs?
Post by: Space Fractal on May 14, 2009, 10:53:59 am: MultiFE have a internal config which is pretty much what ROMLister do and remove deleted games automatic from the list.

ROMLister can also export gamelist files for comply of frontends.