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jukingeo:
Hello all,

I been using Romlister for a while now to generate .xml lists for Mala.  Well, lately I have been taking a liking to Hyperspin and will probably use that for my Windows based projects and it is time to make up some new lists.

Now, for a while now I been planning a single player bar-top cabinet.  Single player meaning that the cabinet will be too small to allow 2 player SIMULTANEOUS playing.  However, alternating 2 (or more) player games will be acceptable.  Many older 80's games were designed like this anyway.

So what I would like to do is set Romlister to allow all alternating player games and all single player games to go through to the final list.   The trouble is that there are no options for settings this specific within the Romlister screen.   But I do know it can be done using the command line interface on the bottom.  The question is how?
I tried to play around with the command line myself, but ended up with weird results.

Is there a site that explains the command line more in detail?  (Specifics, not just how to use the AND, OR, and NOT operands...I seen that wiki already).

I was wondering if someone (NOP perhaps?) could shed some light on the proper use of the Romlister command line, starting off with the example above.

Thank You,

Geo

jukingeo:
Uhhh, does anyone know about the advanced features of Romlister

NOP?  Anyone?  Bueller?  Bueller?

Geo

NOP:
ok, you'd need to have a input file with nplayers.ini built into it.  If you do, you should be able to do this:

add to the end of your -find command line:

 & '2P alt'

That would force all games it comes up with to be 2 player alternating.  You'd maybe want to dig into nplayers.ini file to see what all the possibilities are, then just chain them together like:

 & ( '2P alt' | '4P alt' )


BTW: this is better suited to the software forum..

jukingeo:

--- Quote from: NOP on February 07, 2011, 01:11:44 pm ---ok, you'd need to have a input file with nplayers.ini built into it.  If you do, you should be able to do this:

add to the end of your -find command line:

 & '2P alt'

That would force all games it comes up with to be 2 player alternating.  You'd maybe want to dig into nplayers.ini file to see what all the possibilities are, then just chain them together like:

 & ( '2P alt' | '4P alt' )


BTW: this is better suited to the software forum..


--- End quote ---

Ok, couple more questions:

1) My dilemma is that if I did a search for 2 (or more) player alternating games as you have presented it above, it would filter out 1 player games since alt would = '0'.  So I would need a search that would preserve all one player games AND filter out all multi-player games that don't offer alternating players.   Is that kind of filtering possible?

2) Do you have a document that lists the proper format or rather the proper syntax for more advanced searches like this?

Thank You,

Geo

Hoopz:

--- Quote from: jukingeo on February 07, 2011, 08:44:40 pm ---
2) Do you have a document that lists the proper format or rather the proper syntax for more advanced searches like this?

--- End quote ---
Had you already looked here:

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/RL_tutorials

There's a section for Advanced Searching.    ;D

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