Custom list of mame 1player, 2player.....

[lordtodd75]

Is there any way I can get a custom list of ROMS that is separated by "amount of players". For instance I need a list of all of the 4 player simultaneous games. My cab is set up for 4 players and I have a different CP configuration for all 4 player simultaneous games. Which brings me to my next question, can you save more then one CP config. Like maybe have a "Normal" and a "4player" config I can easily switch between? Thank you for all of your help.

[BuZz880]

Ok, what you want is listgen.  There are two versions.  Listgen, a command-line utility by Buddabing and Listgen.net (can't recall who developed it) which is the GUI version.  Listgen.net is easier to find but I prefer the former.  Both will work fine.  I tie various listgen selects together with a bat file to have a 1 button update when a new version of MAME comes out.

Both versions will work, they let you generate custom lists in a number of formats including Mamewah.  You will need Gameplay.ini or nplayers.ini - nplayers.ini is updated more often so start there http://nplayers.arcadebelgium.be

As for multiple "Configs" I know lots of guys are doing that.  I think its with CTRLR files.  I personally am not too knowledgeable there.  I forgot what frontend you use but with Mamewah at least you can easily setup a separate command line format for each gamelist so it would be easy enough to add a  flag to call your -ctrlr 4psim or whatever.

[Buddabing]

Hello,

Screaming's ListGen.NET is described in this thread.

You can download command-line ListGen (my creation) from here.

A couple of notes:
1) You'll need some of the ancillary files, such as catver.ini, gameplay.ini, etc., for full filtering capacity.

2) It's possible that some features of ListGen may not work for the most recent versions of MAME that have had some options removed. I have not tested it recently.

Regards,
Buddabing

[BuZz880]

Buddabing/LordTodd,

Seems to me the only issue is listgen does not generate listxml.txt properly.

So what you have to do is manually from a command prompt enter:
mame -listinfo >listxml.txt

Then within listgen.ini set the "reuse mame listinfo" (or similar) to 1

I forgot about that step because I already had built it into my Bat file.

[Buddabing]

Actually, it's mame -listxml > listxml.txt, and reuse_mame_data = 1.

You can also set reuse_mame_data on the command line:

listgen -reuse_mame_data

I'm glad you have gotten some use out of this little application.

[BuZz880]

Thanks for correcting the syntax I was going from memory. 

I like this app and use it regulary because I can use it from a command line which is so much easier for me than poking around in someone else's GUI.  That said, I'm glad Listgen.net is out there and perhaps when it combines the GUI and the command line ability I will switch over because there are times where it would be nice.