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AGGIEZ:
Check out what this guy used for his MAME frontend! Nice and clean, easy to make custom lists and sort by genre. What every frontend should have. Setup sounds a little painful, but the results are awesome!


http://www.pyronious.com/

under Arcade Emulation --> last page


Jakobud:
I have looked into this.  It was a royal pain in the butt.  You had to have stuff mySql server running to database all your games and all sorts of stuff.  It was just too much of a pain to setup.  I approached this originally though, because I loved the idea of using a HTPC-type interface to browse through games.  It is something that no Mame frontend has really done well yet.  I hope someone goes that direction eventually.

mcdo15:
intresting.. my intent is to get my windows media center to show games...this would be a good place to look

NoOne=NBA=:
You can do genre sorting on most of the current frontends if you want to put some effort into it.
You just have to do it a different way.
With this method, you need to program a database, which needs to be running as mentioned above.
With the other frontends, you can custom build your genre settings by putting games in, or taking them out of a given list.

I have gamelists that sort by control type (shooting/driving/double stick/spinner/etc...), screen orientation, and monitor type (vector/raster)--which has always been good enough for me.
If I WANTED to put the effort into it, I could further divide the current lists into fighter/shooter/climber/maze/etc... but have never seen a need for this myself.

Sasquatch!:

--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on September 29, 2004, 05:32:43 pm ---I have gamelists that sort by control type (shooting/driving/double stick/spinner/etc...), screen orientation, and monitor type (vector/raster)--which has always been good enough for me.
If I WANTED to put the effort into it, I could further divide the current lists into fighter/shooter/climber/maze/etc... but have never seen a need for this myself.
--- End quote ---
I have two categories in Game Launcher: "favorites" (AKA "stuff I actually play") and "all".  ;)

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