How can I create a list of non-working games?

[gonzo90017]

How can I create a list of non-working games?

[Pi]

This is how I would do it:

1. Get Logiqx's DatUtil, transform a MAME XML into tab-delimited text keeping details (-k), load in a spreadsheet, and discover which column has the driver status. IIRC it is the first data column in the game_driver rows (so you just need those rows). Sort accordingly, remove the crap, leave the list.

Or:

2. Go to MAWS, select Browse, select by "driver status", select imperfect or preliminary, and copy the list from your browser.

Note that "non-working" games is a loose definition which varies from game to game. Some games marked as non-working can be played, and some games marked as "imperfect" are unplayable.

[Howard_Casto]

This is how I would do it:

1. Get Logiqx's DatUtil, transform a MAME XML into tab-delimited text keeping details (-k), load in a spreadsheet, and discover which column has the driver status. IIRC it is the first data column in the game_driver rows (so you just need those rows). Sort accordingly, remove the crap, leave the list.

Or:

2. Go to MAWS, select Browse, select by "driver status", select imperfect or preliminary, and copy the list from your browser.

Note that "non-working" games is a loose definition which varies from game to game. Some games marked as non-working can be played, and some games marked as "imperfect" are unplayable.

What he said.... the short of it, is you really can't make a list of non-working games as mame doesn't output a non-working list. 

Imperfect can mean anything from player 3's inputs aren't hooked up to the game *might* crash if you press up 4 times in front of a window in level 5.  I've also found the prelimenary tag to be mis-leading.  In a few instances even those games are playable, they might just have the wrong color pallette or no sound or something.

[mackem]

http://www.mameworld.net/maws/gamelist.txt

It looks like you have to copy and paste that link into your browser. Direct linking doesn't work.

[Pi]

Gamelist doesn't list clones, unfortunately. Never did, and current renditions of the old file (in MAWS and also in DatUtil) don't do them either.