Lazarus ROM specific options

[bhille]

In Lazarus is there a way to have rom specific options within the same vdir?  For example, if warlords is launced, you could run analog mame instead of dmame, but have warlords listed in the same vdir as the rest of the mame roms?  Or, if a certain game was selected, it would pass an extra option (like "-nomouse" or something).  Not sure if this can be done with all the games listed in the same vdir.

Brian

[Howard_Casto]

yes you can but it's not very practical.  why not just use analog mame for everything?  It has all the options of regular mame.  

I though about all of this before this latest release when I decided to auto parse mame.  

The fact of the matter is I honestly couldn't find a single reason to have two versions of mame on a pc with enough power to run lazarus.  

To answer your question though, there are a lot of ways to do it, but the only way to do it and retain the extra info needed for 3d cabinets is to do as follows.

Run the listgen program externally.  When it's finished open it up and search (either by rom name or description)  for any game you wish to run in analog mame.  Change the entry in the 5th slot of each of these games from MAME to AMAME or whatever you want.    Now copy your mame.cfg in the cfgs folder and rename the copy amame.cfg.  Set the path to look for amame and your all set.  Just go into lazarus and refresh the list, but DO NOT regenerate the list as it will overwrite all of your manual settings.

The downside is you will have to manually do this every time you regenerate the list, but if you copy the entries into a text file when you do it the first time, you can use notepad's replace functions to fix it almost automatically later down the road.