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Author Topic: Quick way to delete all MAME mechanical roms?  (Read 5152 times)

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Quick way to delete all MAME mechanical roms?
« on: March 01, 2012, 11:17:44 am »
Is there any way to output just the mechanical games from mame, or another easy route to get the rom names so I can delete them?

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Re: Quick way to delete all MAME mechanical roms?
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2012, 04:18:03 pm »
Is there any way to output just the mechanical games from mame, or another easy route to get the rom names so I can delete them?

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Simple go to your closet, workshop, storage shed and fish out all the mechanical games that you own and match them up to what is listed in Mame.  :laugh2:

Seriously it sucks to have these in MAME anyway.  Couldn't the mamedevs just fork these mechanical roms that don't work?  What a PITA.

This application will help you weed them out.

http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/
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Re: Quick way to delete all MAME mechanical roms?
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2012, 04:23:57 pm »
Aye I generated a master list without the mechanical games:

In the -find text, in the section that says something like this:
!('BIOS' | casino | minigames | mature)

just add "Electromechanical" like this:

!('BIOS' | casino | minigames | mature | Electromechanical)

Thanks to Jeff (RomLister coder)