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Author Topic: Any easy way to get rid of adult natured games on MAME?  (Read 1862 times)

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Any easy way to get rid of adult natured games on MAME?
« on: September 03, 2015, 12:35:09 am »
I have a lot of games that are not suitable for kids but can't find a way to delete them quickly?  If i view them in MAME there's no way to just press delete and get rid of the file. 

Any ideas?

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Re: Any easy way to get rid of adult natured games on MAME?
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2015, 12:54:10 am »
Which frontend are you using?

If you use Hyperspin, there are tools out there to create a new list / database and you can sort by Genre. Anything in the 'Mature' category you can easily filter out and create a new list.

Hope this helps!

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Re: Any easy way to get rid of adult natured games on MAME?
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2015, 12:57:46 am »

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Re: Any easy way to get rid of adult natured games on MAME?
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2015, 12:40:25 pm »
Romlister will create filtered lists as well.

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Re: Any easy way to get rid of adult natured games on MAME?
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2015, 01:01:11 pm »
   I would have to say just pick and choose... However, It should be said that screening games due to content may extinguish the magical experience for a kid,
"Gals panic, and Grand theft come to mind" These are the kind of games their friends are playing, and your kids will just go to there house.

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Re: Any easy way to get rid of adult natured games on MAME?
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2015, 01:06:05 pm »
If i view them in MAME there's no way to just press delete and get rid of the file. 

try pressing delete on the rom file in the rom folder.
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Re: Any easy way to get rid of adult natured games on MAME?
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2015, 03:52:56 pm »
Romlister will create filtered lists as well.
in fact, here's a tutorial on how to do it.
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/RL_tutorial_removing_adult_titles

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Re: Any easy way to get rid of adult natured games on MAME?
« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2015, 04:03:58 pm »
I used romlister and created a batch file to delete all the roms as well.
For it to work though, it has to be flagged as an adult game and not all of them are.

It got the vast majority of them, but there were still some I had to manually delete by scrolling through my gamelist and looking at the screenshots.