sorting games for frontend

[highland04]

how do you sort your games?

if there are several thousand mame games alone on your system, how do you sort them in your frontend?

i took out all but the ones i want... it sucks to scroll through them all.

but if you took out all clones and maybe divided the mames by letter?

[headkaze]

You used to have to have a dat file containing all the ROMs, but in later versions of Mame it can generate an xml file itself. CLRMame is a very good ROM management program for Mame.

Most front ends give you different ways to scroll through a list, for example, most let you either scroll at different speeds, some allow you to jump to each letter of the alphabet, some allow sorting into different genre's and so forth. In a front-end like GameEx, it can do this all except the multi-speed scroll, and you can also delete ROMs you don't want, though I believe it dosn't physically delete them only remove them from the list.

[RayB]

Believe it or not, I went through every file.