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Buddabing:
Just remove the static from the gamename variable.

YGPM.

Howard_Casto:
Wouldn't it be a good idea ot implement this in the official build?  The only real reason I don't upgrade my apps to the listxml format is because it's frikkin huge!  If I could pick and choose the games I needed to read, that woudl make it more viable. 

Buddabing:
I can prepare a patch for submission, but I'm guessing that it will be rejected. You never know, though.

mahuti:
Yeah, I don't know why this hasn't been implimented in the MAME core before. I've been wishing for this functionality for over a year now... maybe a lot longer. Everytime I did anything with the listxml... it just seemed rediculous.

To me this seems a no brainer addition to MAME... if I ever want to check out the listxml file it takes a long time for even the fastest XML reader I have to open and to search for info. Most of the time I'm just looking for info on one game. Not 6000.

u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: mahuti on June 21, 2006, 06:28:25 pm ---Yeah, I don't know why this hasn't been implimented in the MAME core before. I've been wishing for this functionality for over a year now... maybe a lot longer. Everytime I did anything with the listxml... it just seemed rediculous.

To me this seems a no brainer addition to MAME... if I ever want to check out the listxml file it takes a long time for even the fastest XML reader I have to open and to search for info. Most of the time I'm just looking for info on one game. Not 6000.

--- End quote ---

IIRC, the single game xml output wasn't included as part of the "simplefy the options" line.  I guess the idea was "run xml output once, let the other apps do what they want, the xml parsers are good enough", vs "ditto above and/or run mame over and over for each game"

[shrug]  I agree it would be nice to be part of official mame, but when I use listxml, I usually need to look at enough games to make it worth while to do the whole shebang, so I never really worried about it.


Thanks Buddabing, for doing the work. :D

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