Detect cocktail mode from mame cfg?

[arzoo]

Does anyone know if it's possible to detect when a mame game has it's cocktail dip set? The cfg file lists dipswitch settings, but there's no indication what each dip is used for. I guess I could parse the mame source for each game and determine the cocktail dip mask, but I was hoping for an easier solution.

[u_rebelscum]

Use ROMlister to parse mame's listxml file.  Seach for "cocktail" and output to whichever format you want.

[NOP]

with one caveat as mentioned in the wiki:
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Lists

There are some games with hidden cocktail modes!  There aren't any dipswitches so no utility is going to find them, but if you root around in some of the maintenance modes on some games, there are sometimes options for cocktail.  Pretty cool, but also a PITA to try and find them.  The wiki is there so we can list 'em as we find them.  (I haven't actually been looking)

-jeff!

[arzoo]

Thanks for the help!

[squirrellydw]

Thanks for the help!

is this a good thing?