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NOP:
I think this is the current question, but it's not obvious with the thread edits.
--- Quote ---I simply have no idea why Spaceharrier (and possibly others) wouldn't be included in the list.
--- End quote ---
Any time a game that you're expecting in a list doesn't show up, do this:
1) create the all games list by hitting the button on the main UI.
2) locate the game in that new list
3) 2x click on that game and romlister will show you the XML for that game. There is probably something in that XML which you're telling romlister to filter OUT of your current list.
4) If you can't figure out what it is, post the contents of your -find: window here in a message and the XML for that game and I'll step you through it.
5) (optional) while you're in the "all games list" view, you can right-click on any game in that list and "throw" it into your working list. Useful really only for single games (like pacman) that you've filtered out but want to add in without changing your search criteria.
edit: also, posting this question in the software forum would have gotten my attention earlier, likely. i hang out there more...
edit2: my guess for why space harrier doesn't show up is that the control is tagged as:
--- Code: --- <Controls>
<Control Name="Flightstick (Analog)">
<Constant Name="stick" />
<Button Name="P1_BUTTON1" />
</Control>
--- End code ---
but there isn't actually a "flightstick" option for romlister's checkboxes, so those games were never getting pulled into your list. You can do this by getting your hands a little dirty:
In the -find: window, change the text that looks something like this:
& (joy2way | joy4way | !'control type=')
and change it to say this:
& (joy2way | flightstick | joy4way | !'control type=')
that is, insert the keyword "flightstick" into the list of acceptable controls you're looking for.
Knightlore:
Thankyou so much for your help, I will look into this later today - unfortunately I'm just off to work.
The reason it wasn't posted up in the software forum was that this post was previously another question that I edited when the problem with Romlister came up, noted for future though.
Knightlore:
You had it spot on. Worked a treat, thanks again ;D
Trying more to understand Romlister, I can't seem to get RedEarth to show up in my list. I had a look through the xml data for it and can't seem to find anything that I could add in. If needs be I can post it up later, failing that I will do as you suggested and just manually add in some games.
NOP:
red earth says it's a 6 button game. do you have that many in your romlister criteria?
The only other control is joy8way, which you probably have checked.
it shows up when I have at least those 2 selected.
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At its core, romlister is nothing more than a search engine. You tell it what you want or don't want with the -find text, and it checks each game xml's data looking for text matches of that criteria. It does absolutely nothing more than matching text against text. It does not make any decisions for you that are not present in the -find text. (It has been accused of being too strict in what it filters in and out, and that's not actually up to romlister!) The GUI controls just change the text for you to make it easier, but it's impossible to come up with a GUI control for every conceivable search that someone would want to do.
The only trick is getting to understand its parsing language of &, !, |, (), etc.
To help with that, I put together these tutorials:
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/RL_tutorials
Yenome:
huh seeing analog on the line with flightstick i would of fig'ed analog being checked would of added it. oh well too picky as they say.
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