Rom Names

[Nightmare03]

Hey,

Is it possible to rename a rom and still run it normally? I want to be able to rename Space Invaders from "Invaders" to.. you guessed it "Space Invaders" Obviously if i do this mame wont run it.

Any ideas?

-Nightmare

[Buddabing]

Is it possible to rename a rom and still run it normally? I want to be able to rename Space Invaders from "Invaders" to.. you guessed it "Space Invaders" Obviously if i do this mame wont run it.

You'll have to modify the mame source. Change driver.c to reflect the new driver name and rename the driver in the drivers subdirectory. Then recompile.

I don't know if it will compile correctly if spaces are used in the filename for the driver.

Are you sure you want to be doing this? The MAME developers named the drivers what they did for a reason.

[Nightmare03]

I never said i wanted to do this... just would have be easier to add games to the program im making, thats all.

-Nightmare

[SirPoonga]

Make a lookup table with "mame -listfull".  Look up the romname and display the game name.

[Minwah]

Hey,

I want to be able to rename Space Invaders from "Invaders" to.. you guessed it "Space Invaders"

I never said i wanted to do this... just would have be easier to add games to the program im making, thats all.

What

[stuzza]

Hey,

I want to be able to rename Space Invaders from "Invaders" to.. you guessed it "Space Invaders"

I never said i wanted to do this... just would have be easier to add games to the program im making, thats all.

What

I believe he is going to try and write his own front end.  See this thread: http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=14836

[Minwah]

I believe he is going to try and write his own front end.  See this thread: http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=14836

I see.  Renaming romnames seems like an easy way out, but actually it would take more work - imagine renaming >4000 romfiles! (+snap files etc.)...

[Howard_Casto]

There are dat files available for figuring out games real names.  Also mame itself can generate such data for you.  Renaming roms is not only a dumb idea (for the reasons you yourself have already pointed out)  but it's a waste of time.  It's much faster and easier to learn how to parse mame directly or said dat files.  

Learn how to use mame, learn how to make it work for you.  Once you figure that out then things will go a lot smoother.