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Mark70:
I love spending my time messing with my cabinet and it's games; however there are many titles which I would have been better never bothering with.

I was windering if Mamewah is capable of taking a game list from someone else and plug it in.

I thought it would be cool for people to post game lists and info like, user prefers side scrolling brawlers, or user prefers overhead shooters, or puzzle games  etc..

somunny:
I would think that as long as the lists came from the same version of Mamewah that there wouldn't be a problem.  Nice idea, btw...

screaming:
MAMEWAHs game list format hasn't changed in years.  I don't see a problem organizing something like that other than not everyone has all the ROMs, which would render the list unusable.

*shrug* go for it.

joe jet:
In a similar vein, i have played EVERY game and filtered the truly worthwhile games down to 220 games or so.

Is there anyway to convert the filtered list to a text file?  I try to backup my .ini files from time to time, but my greatest fear is losing my filtered list somehow as it took probably 60 hours of playing to get the list i love.

It would also be nice just to have a clean list to share with others that use another frontend, or for comparison to another person's list.

Is there a way to do this other than manually writing it out?  The mamewah file is filled with all sorts of other information that doesnt look like a batch file could do it.

Mario:

--- Quote from: joe jet on February 25, 2006, 12:13:32 pm ---In a similar vein, i have played EVERY game and filtered the truly worthwhile games down to 220 games or so.

Is there anyway to convert the filtered list to a text file?  I try to backup my .ini files from time to time, but my greatest fear is losing my filtered list somehow as it took probably 60 hours of playing to get the list i love.

It would also be nice just to have a clean list to share with others that use another frontend, or for comparison to another person's list.

Is there a way to do this other than manually writing it out?  The mamewah file is filled with all sorts of other information that doesnt look like a batch file could do it.

--- End quote ---

I wrote a Perl script which can take your Mamewah list and print it out as a text file, or as a tab-delimited file suitable for viewing with Excel. It can also take in a list of games and generate a filtered Mamewah list with only those games chosen. I did this as an easy way to generate custom lists. Example: generate an Excel file, then in Excel you mark those you want to include in your list, and then use this to generate the custom list. So, if you post your game list (using ROM names), I can read it in and generate a Mamewah file.

The script can also generate lists based on category choices (e.g., all trackball games), and it can use the catver.ini file to generate categoried lists.

If there's interested, I'll get it up onto a web site with some instructions.

Mario

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