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Title: ListGen woes - lists based on number of players
Post by: Tyrant Joe on August 23, 2009, 05:43:25 pm: I've been trying to make a custom game list with only 4 player games for Mamewah. Since apparently Mamewah can't figure it out, I looked around and found that ListGen is supposed to be able to do such a thing. However, when I try to run ListGen, it loads up Mame and says "No games found." I hit enter to exit and now the command prompt says "bad mame version" and nothing happens. If I run mame either from Windows or command prompt it works and displays games, however when ListGen tries to do it it doesn't find anything. I have the rompath set right in both listgen.ini and mame.ini, so I don't understand what's going wrong. Please let me know how to get this thing working, because documentation for this program is unbelievably sparse. Also, if there is any quicker or easier way to get a list of 4 player games, I would be very happy to hear it.

Here is my listgen.ini, and yes I have all the .ini's such as nplayers and catver in the mame folder.

rompath C:\mame\roms
mamepath C:\mame
catverpath C:\mame
nplayerspath C:\mame
gameplaypath C:\mame
frontend mamewah
verbose 0
#silent 0
audit_roms 1
#us_version_priority 0
#world_version_priority 0
strip_description 0
#japan_version_priority -1
#reuse_mame_data 0
#output batch2.bat
#force_uppercase_romnames 0
#skip_final_step 1
#boundary_path .
#boundary_file ssf.txt
#frontend romlist
#rompath ..\mame\roms
#mamepath ..\mame\v0.105
use_clones 1
unique 0
reuse_mame_data 1
#output makemovies.bat
output mamewah.txt
skip_final_step 0
Title: Re: ListGen woes - lists based on number of players
Post by: Hoopz on August 23, 2009, 08:55:59 pm: Have you tried romlister?

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=91757.0
Title: Re: ListGen woes - lists based on number of players
Post by: Tyrant Joe on August 23, 2009, 09:05:23 pm: Yes, though it seems it doesn't have support for nplayers.ini, gameplay.ini or any other method for filtering based on number of players
Title: Re: ListGen woes - lists based on number of players
Post by: Tyrant Joe on August 23, 2009, 09:29:28 pm: After some tinkering I found that while there isn't any explicit box to check for the number of players, the controls.xml file it uses has a numPlayers entry, which ends up being merged into the master xml file for Romlister. It was then just a matter of adding numPlayers=4 to the search bar, et voila!
Title: Re: ListGen woes - lists based on number of players
Post by: Cakemeister on August 23, 2009, 09:47:09 pm: Cool. PM me if you have more problems.
Title: Re: ListGen woes - lists based on number of players
Post by: Hoopz on August 24, 2009, 09:34:30 am: You can use MAWS but it isn't as easy to copy the list over. Maybe send NOP a PM or bump his thread and ask if he can add that feature?