visual pinball game list sorting/renaming program??

[hulkster]

i know there is romlister and such for mame, goodtools for the consoles....but what about pinball games?

ive got all the pinball roms/tables but when i pull them up in mala, they are all lowercase, and some dont even work.  is there a program that will correct the puncuation, and filter out the ones that dont work/clones?

the mala gamelist utility will remove the brackets, but it doesnt have the functionality to sort out the ones that are nonworking like in mame...at least to my knowledge.  any help would be appreciated.

[Howard_Casto]

I pretty much gave up trying to "fix" vp at this point.  The table authors seem unwilling to standardize anything, even knowing some of the problems we face due to the way they currently do it.  There is a dat, but it's seldom updated and it's format is unweildy (it's good for renaming the tables, but esentially useless for finding and renaming the artwork to match and also requires the dat author to actually have a copy of the table, which isn't always the case as there isn't any "official" list of vp games anywhere or an official clrmamepro dat.)

My suggestion would be to find a torrent with all the tables that has the names done reasonably well and go with it.   

[hulkster]

I pretty much gave up trying to "fix" vp at this point.  The table authors seem unwilling to standardize anything, even knowing some of the problems we face due to the way they currently do it.  There is a dat, but it's seldom updated and it's format is unweildy (it's good for renaming the tables, but esentially useless for finding and renaming the artwork to match and also requires the dat author to actually have a copy of the table, which isn't always the case as there isn't any "official" list of vp games anywhere or an official clrmamepro dat.)

My suggestion would be to find a torrent with all the tables that has the names done reasonably well and go with it.   

yikes!  and i thought it was just another case of me not knowing enough.  well this sucks! 

[shock_]

I've been hand-picking tables one at a time, and setting up snap, table file names, machine photos etc.

But I only did about 50 or so, and those were tables that

• played well enough
• didn't look like garbage in the snap
• were recreations

I also have this problem with Commodore 64 games - but without a proper C64 keyboard a whole lot of stuff isn't cab-playable so I'm not too bothered by the incompleteness of it all.

I do have a program that performs some sort of directory sorting on the VP stuff from a certain torrent site I can't mention, I'll see if I can find a link.

[Kangum]

I've been hand-picking tables one at a time, and setting up snap, table file names, machine photos etc.

But I only did about 50 or so, and those were tables that

• played well enough
• didn't look like garbage in the snap
• were recreations

I also have this problem with Commodore 64 games - but without a proper C64 keyboard a whole lot of stuff isn't cab-playable so I'm not too bothered by the incompleteness of it all.

I do have a program that performs some sort of directory sorting on the VP stuff from a certain torrent site I can't mention, I'll see if I can find a link.

i also been hand picking them one by one. i started the other way through a torrent and it was really really crappy. i hand picked aboute 50 future pinball tables. they have the best home made none recreations and they are rated. so its a bit easier to tell what to download.

visual pinbal has the best working recreations. there may be some good home made tables but when 800 are crap and 50 are good, not even worth looking.

[Howard_Casto]

I also have this problem with Commodore 64 games - but without a proper C64 keyboard a whole lot of stuff isn't cab-playable so I'm not too bothered by the incompleteness of it all.

Now I don't care for c64 much, so I can't confirm, but some console roms, especially the older ones have data displayed in mess that can be used to make a clrmamrpro dat with.  There is a program in the misc utilities section of my website called mess-ed, download a copy of mess and see if your roms show additional data in it's interface.... if they do then mess-ed can be used to fix your roms for you. You have to install mess to use mess-ed, but you don't have to play the games via mess.