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Monitor Orientation Filter?
Havok:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on December 19, 2006, 06:12:20 pm ---Havok...that only filters by category...not by orientation.
:-\
Thanks for trying though.
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You think I am so easily defeated? Ha! Save the attached file, and rename the extension to .ini. Point to it in the ini file field of MCM, and enjoy!
FrizzleFried:
How did you get/make that filter? THANKS! I should be able to delete all the horizontal games without issue now.
YOU ROCK!
EDIT: Yup...works kickass! I'd love to know how you made the ini... next it may be time to remove the non-working....
THANKS HAVOK!
Rockin' Rick...I found my solution (or it found me actually).
Havok:
Hehe - ancient Chinese secret!
I generated the list by using Nop's utility from the thread that Rockin Rick posted, with a dash of Excel to throw in the attribute. I started to write my own, but had some problems with it and decided to check out Nop's. His utility doesn't work for non-working games, as the xml file is a little funky how they assign the runnable status to a game. But it works great for many of the characteristics that you can query for.
I'll keep you posted about the non-working games...
NOP:
>I started to write my own, but had some problems with it and decided to check out Nop's. His utility doesn't work for non-working games, as the xml file is a little funky how they assign the runnable status to a game. But it works great for many of the characteristics that you can query for.
Interesting.
Can you give me the details on what the xml file does for non-runable games?
I'd be happy to add a -working or something if it can be isolated down to runable/non-runable in some obvious way, funky or not.
I hadn't noticed that there was an issue there, but then again, for my purposes, I was only trying to find vertical, 1button, 4way joystick games, and I'd imagine 99% of those are runable by now. :)
-jeff!
Havok:
--- Quote from: NOP on December 21, 2006, 03:38:16 pm ---Interesting.
Can you give me the details on what the xml file does for non-runable games?
I'd be happy to add a -working or something if it can be isolated down to runable/non-runable in some obvious way, funky or not.
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The runnable status is not contained within the <game name="x"> </game> section for some odd reason. Near the end of the file, if references each game that is not runnable, for example:
<game runnable="no" name="cpzn1" sourcefile="zn.c">
<description>ZN1</description>
<year>1995</year>
<manufacturer>Sony/Capcom</manufacturer>
<rom name="coh-1000c.353" size="524288" crc="50033af6" sha1="486d92ff6c7f1e54f8e0ef41cd9116eca0e10e1a" region="user1" offset="0"/>
</game>
And then continues to list other not runnable games. It does not list all the games, so it appears that if one of these entries is not present for a particular game, Mame assumes the game is runnable.
While you are looking at modifying the program, could you add a switch to output the game description, instead of just the rom name?
Thanks!
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