Software Request (ATTN: NOP!?)

[DillonFoulds]

Hey guys, is there a program that does the REVERSE of Romlister?

Ie: Here's a folder with my roms, search through it and tell me what are the maximum controls needed by the roms. 8-way, 4 buttons (excluding start/coin)?

I don't imagine the syntax would be too much different from Romlister, but I wouldn't really know...

[NOP]

Indirectly, it's already there.

romlister has a rom scan utility in which it will take your complete merged xml file and truncate it down to just the roms that exist on your hard drive.  after doing that, you will have an xml file that contains all the information about all the roms on your drive.  Then, you could do a "list all roms" and output that list as a CSV file, in which you export out the controls, number of buttons, etc and then sort that list to know what the maximums are.

clumsy for sure, but already in your hands.

[DillonFoulds]

Thanks NOP, I tried this, and I'm getting oddball results.

Some say 2&2, some say 0&1, others say just 4, or just 0.

How do i decipher these results?

[NOP]

2&2 stuff comes from the fact that we've merged both MAME and controls data.  The 1st # is what MAME says, the 2nd is what controls.xml has.  when there are multiple values, you should prolly always go with the 2nd number, as controls.xml seems to be closer to reality.

we can also work around the doubles altogether, but we'd need to go back and make a new merged input xml file.  Pop me an email or PM and I can step you through that.