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Rudi:

Is there a file, in any usable format, that can tell me the following for each ROM:

-number of simultaneous players
-number of total players
-number of buttons/joysticks/other controls needed
ect

I've been creating a spreadsheet with this info from the Top 100 on KLOV, but was thinking what I can't be the first person to want this.

The reason I do want this is so I can easily figure out how many buttons I need for a cab which will only have a few dozen ROMS, without looking it up each of them in KLOV.  Also, I'd like to use LED-Wiz, or something like it, with translucent buttons on my next 4 player cab, and I'd like only the necessary buttons lit up when the game starts.

Thanks in advance.
-Rudi

gamecreature:
Have you tried MAWS?

SirPoonga:
controls.dat

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Rudi on July 21, 2006, 11:20:11 am ---
Is there a file, in any usable format, that can tell me the following for each ROM:

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No. This data hasn't been collected for every single rom out there, but controls.dat is the closest you'll get.

Rudi:

The control.dat is good.  That will help.

Howard, I believe that PowerMame can use this info to control an LED-Wiz and light up the appropriate buttons.  Is that correct? 

-Rudi

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