Game description file available?

[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]

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

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

[Howard_Casto]

Not sure.  It was my understanding that pm just used mame's internal data, I could be wrong.