Mame Folder Question

[topdawgg]

A friend of mine told me if you setup a folder called "Fighting Games" and a second one named "Sports Games" you can have roms for each category inside these folders with the snapshots the corosponding artwork, marquee's, etc etc. 

Do these folders all go in the "Roms" section or do they go directly into the Mame folder?

Also, what do I need to change within mame to make this setup work?

[Savannan]

I have personally never done what your friend has done..not saying that its not possible..but why? If you want a seperate catagory for each genre of game, I would set that up in the front end rather than messing with the mame directory structure.   I use hyperspin as a front end and it has the ability to pick different genre's. (ie, Fighting, shooter, sports, ect) with of press of a button...I'm sure other front ends can do that function also.   Check your front end instuctions.

99.9% of the people have all their roms in the ROMS folder, not a seperate folder per genre....  I would just leave yours alone and work on your frontend.

If you need snapshots, in game titles, control panel, ect pics...then just head to http://www.progettosnaps.net/index_en.html and put them in their respective dir.

Sav

[Howard_Casto]

A friend of mine told me if you setup a folder called "Fighting Games" and a second one named "Sports Games" you can have roms for each category inside these folders with the snapshots the corosponding artwork, marquee's, etc etc. 

Do these folders all go in the "Roms" section or do they go directly into the Mame folder?

Also, what do I need to change within mame to make this setup work?

Either your friend didn't explain it right, you didn't understand them right, or they are simply incorrect.  Mame has no such functionality and it would be pointless anyway.  Front-ends handle all of that stuff virtually via parsing a catver.ini or something similar.  It's actually a hinderance to seperate your roms and artwork like that. 

[topdawgg]

Hmm... ok.  I am using Mala and right now the filtering in there is kinda messy.  It shows all the bios i have installed and its annoying.... ooh well another thing to learn

Thanks.

[Yenome]

i hated having my bios files listed by my frontend as well so i edited the roms line in the mame.ini that line tells mame to look in the roms and a folder named bios. i then put all the bios files in that bios folder. thus your games will all work fine and the bios files will be listed by mame it self. but just pointing your FE to your roms folder will leave out all the bios files in your lists. Worked wonders on maximus arcade and hyperspin.
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