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Can't decided...have all mame games on cabinet or only hand picked ones....

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eds1275:
I have a full set, divided into their respective genres - no clones. Of course I also have my favs, my fiances' favs, and a few other custom lists. Anything I do not have the controls to play gets removed from the lists. Every once in a while I will boot up each game in a list and play for a few minutes. Anything that is too slow to play or doesn't boot up correctly gets booted - a few minutes a day trims down the ones that don't work well pretty quick.

bkenobi:
I have a full set available, but I filter out certain games through non-inclusion on the cab (DDR type w/ CHD primarily) and filter the others through the FE.  I keep the full set on my file server so I can keep fully up to date, but don't actually put the large files on the cab to junk up the relatively small drive.  As for the rest of the set, I never play mahjong or casino games (among others), so I let the FE filter those out so they don't show up on the list.  If you use a good front end, you can dynamically filter or search to find specific games in a given genre so you don't have to manually build and maintain umpteen lists.  I'm sure there are other FE's that do this, but I've been using GameEx for years and been very pleased with this feature.

Benevolance:

--- Quote ---If they ask for something or an interesting game pops up on BYOAC, all I have to do is switch over to the "All Games" list, right click on the game, and add it to the smaller list.  When I add new ones, I kick out some of the ones that never get played.  I always keep it under 200 games.  Anymore just seems overwhelming to anyone browsing through them.
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That is a terrific way to do it.

ark_ader:
Put all the legal games and ROMs from boards you own, on the cabinet.

That should simplify your task.

Cynicaster:
I like to maintain a full set of ROMs.  Mostly because I like to participate in things like the AtariAge MAME high score club, and I'd rather not have to hunt down ROMs, I like to just know that I'll have any game that is part of the competition. 

The only annoying thing about this is always forgetting which one to use (set 1, set 2, set 3, ver b.2, ver b.7, etc). 

Also, as somebody mentioned, I fear that if I clean out the list I'll miss out on the discovery of new games.  There are so many on there that I've never played or heard of, and it's fun once in a while to just go exploring. 

Honestly, even though the list is enormous, I don't find it overly cumbersome.  I use MaLa, and I have simply created a separate list for each letter of the alphabet.  I tap the joystick left and right to pick a letter, then up and down to pick a title.  For the longer lists, I just hold down button #1 when and the up/down scrolling goes into overdrive speed.  Never takes more than a few seconds to find the game I want.


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