Does anyone have the controls.xml file please? romlister problems

[custard80]

Try to download this but the usual link is dead. Anyone have a copy please?

cheers.

Custard80

[SGT]

Try to download this but the usual link is dead. Anyone have a copy please?

cheers.

Custard80

This link works for me:

http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/controls_dat.php

[custard80]

Weird i tried that earlier and it didn't work.

Thanks for that!

now to make those lists!

[custard80]

maybe i'm having a bad night but now i cant get Romlister to work. Build 008

I have followed the instructions and created a merged file from mame, catver and controls but when i create a gameslist for mala it is 1kb and contains nothing!

I have even tried just creating a text file but that has nothing in it!

I'm not trying to do anything complicated just vertical 3 button and horizontal 6 button.

Please help!

[slsimon]

maybe i'm having a bad night but now i cant get Romlister to work. Build 008

I have followed the instructions and created a merged file from mame, catver and controls but when i create a gameslist for mala it is 1kb and contains nothing!

I have even tried just creating a text file but that has nothing in it!

I'm not trying to do anything complicated just vertical 3 button and horizontal 6 button.

Please help!

Hello custard80.  I tried looking at the Romlister manager, I believe build 008 and ran into the same problem that you have.  I thought that I was doing something wrong but maybe not.  I was able to merge all the neccessary files but was not able to create a master game list.  I will be keeping an eye on this post and if I come up with anything, you will be the first to know.  Thanks, Shane

[NOP]

hi!
I'm here-this is the first I've heard of this issue.

If you could, try and go back a release:
http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/ROMLister_007.zip

If that works, then I've broken something when I released 008 on saturday and I'll take a look into it.  If it's still broken, please post your -find criteria and I'll try and duplicate it.

Either way, we'll get it off the ground in no time.

update: actually, post your -find line here and I'll see what happens.
I just created a very happy 286k mala game list with build 008, so it isn't completely broken....


-jeff!

[slsimon]

hi!
I'm here-this is the first I've heard of this issue.

If you could, try and go back a release:
http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/ROMLister_007.zip

If that works, then I've broken something when I released 008 on saturday and I'll take a look into it.  If it's still broken, please post your -find criteria and I'll try and duplicate it.

Either way, we'll get it off the ground in no time.

update: actually, post your -find line here and I'll see what happens.
I just created a very happy 286k mala game list with build 008, so it isn't completely broken....


-jeff!

I have obtained the lastest version of Mame build .118 and compiled the latest defs .118u4.  I was able to use the latest version of romlister build 008 and output an XML file size of 29,503KB.  So looks like the latest build of both Mame and Romlister work in conjunction with each other.  NOP, I will be attempting to work with your Romlister later this week.  I have a 4 player control panel setup with 6 buttons per player.  I am going to try to figure out how to weed out those games that are not compatible with my layout as well as adult games, quize games, possibly Japan (Mah.) games.  See what I can come up with.  Thanks for the post....  Thanks, Shane

[NOP]

ok, my email addy is at the bottom of the romlister homepage, so if you run into any issues, that's the quickest way to locate me.

The input xml file that I was just testing with was build off of version 114, so I'm a little out of date as far as that goes.  It's tough to keep up with these things!

-jeff!

[slsimon]

ok, my email addy is at the bottom of the romlister homepage, so if you run into any issues, that's the quickest way to locate me.

The input xml file that I was just testing with was build off of version 114, so I'm a little out of date as far as that goes.  It's tough to keep up with these things!

-jeff!

Thanks Jeff.   I am sure you will here from me when I actually have time to sit down and work with all the roms.  What differences are there between build 007 and 008?  Thanks for the build.  Thanks,

[custard80]

HI Jeff

I have tried 007 but with no luck my find is.
(numButtons=3 | numButtons=2 | numButtons=1 | numButtons=0) & (rotate=90 | rotate=270) & (joy2way | joy4way | joy8way)

the merged xml file is 26.2 MB in size.

Mame vesion is 0.104, Mala is version 4

When i press go the screen only stay up for about 10 seconds and then disapears.

I'm sure i must be doing something wrong here!

Any advice greatfully recieved.

[NOP]

yeah, I don't see anything weird with that command line at all.
With my 114 merged file, I picked up 760 matches with your search parameters.

ok, copy the screen data in the large window out for me.  My guess is that the keyword numButtons isn't being found in any of the descriptors, so you get 0 results. 

(copy this stuff..)

<game name="puckmana" sourcefile="pacman.c" cloneof="puckman" romof="puckman">
   <description>PuckMan (Japan set 2)</description>
   <year>1980</year>
   <manufacturer>Namco</manufacturer>
   <category>Maze</category>
   <controls info>numPlayers="2" alternating="1" mirrored="1" usesService="0" tilt="0" cocktail="1"</controls info>
   <player number="1" numButtons="0">
...

As to the differences between 007 and 008, there's a history file on the website which describes briefly what is changed:

build 008 - aug 31st 2007
- fixed logic error with multiple items in parenthesis.  thanks to Andre Bouchard for discovering it.
- changed "ball & paddle" to "ball_&_paddle" in the category description.  The '&' with a space was confusing the logic operators. 
You can always use the underscore character as a space replacement in any search criteria.
- added a popup warning dialog if search criteria contains an '| !' (OR+NOT) sequence.  I can't think of an instance where this combination would be helpful,
but I've most certainly been wrong before.  It's only a warning, it doesn't actually affect your searches.

-jeff!

[custard80]

Jeff

here is the text from the first in the list and mortal kombat.

<game name="puckmana" sourcefile="pacman.c" cloneof="puckman" romof="puckman">
   <description>PuckMan (Japan set 2)</description>
   <year>1980</year>
   <manufacturer>Namco</manufacturer>
   <category>Maze</category>
   <controls info>numPlayers="2" alternating="1" mirrored="1" usesService="0" tilt="0" cocktail="1"</controls info>
   <player number="1" numButtons="0">
      <controls>
         <control name="4-way Joystick">
            <constant name="joy4way"/>
         </control>
      </controls>
   <labels>
         <label name="P1_JOYSTICK_RIGHT" value="Right"/>
         <label name="P1_JOYSTICK_LEFT" value="Left"/>
         <label name="P1_JOYSTICK_DOWN" value="Down"/>
         <label name="P1_JOYSTICK_UP" value="Up"/>
      </labels>
   </player>

<description>Mortal Kombat (rev 5.0 T-Unit 03/19/93)</description>
   <year>1992</year>
   <manufacturer>Midway</manufacturer>
   <category>Unplayable</category>
   <controls info>numPlayers="2" alternating="0" mirrored="1" usesService="0" tilt="1" cocktail="0"</controls info>
   <player number="1" numButtons="5">
      <controls>
         <control name="8-way Joystick">
            <constant name="joy8way"/>
         </control>
      </controls>
   <labels>
         <label name="P1_BUTTON1" value="High Punch"/>
         <label name="P1_BUTTON2" value="Block"/>
         <label name="P1_BUTTON3" value="High Kick"/>
         <label name="P1_BUTTON4" value="Low Punch"/>
         <label name="P1_BUTTON5" value="Low Kick"/>
         <label name="P1_JOYSTICK_UP" value="Jump"/>
         <label name="P1_JOYSTICK_DOWN" value="Duck"/>
         <label name="P1_JOYSTICK_LEFT" value="Move Left"/>
         <label name="P1_JOYSTICK_RIGHT" value="Move Right"/>
      </labels>
   </player>

Hope that sheds some light.

Cheers.
Custard80

[NOP]

ok, that doesn't quite look like an entire game entry (the text window scrolls) as each entry should end with </game> but I think I know what's going on.  This has bitten me in the cheeks a couple times before and I don't know why I can't remember why this issue isn't on the top of my list for tech support whenever no results are found.


I suspect that your mame 104 version xml file still has monitor orientation as listed simply horizontal or vertical.   They switched to "rotate=xxx" sometime around your release number, and romlister isn't smart enough to know which version you're using.  To quickly test this, remove the "& (rotate=90 | rotate=270)" from your search string and try it again.  If that works, poke around somewhere in that big text window and you should see some keyword about monitor orientation. 
You could probably just replace the "& (rotate=90 | rotate=270)" with "& vertical" and I just bet it'll start working.

-jeff!

[custard80]

Got round to trying it out last night and changing it to vertical or horizontal appears to have sorted it.
I haven't had a chance to play with it properly but it is now generating lists.

Thanks for your help Jeff.

[NOP]

fantastic!

I'm tired of having this issue come up, so the next release is going to identify which MAME xml file you're using and then adjust that monitor orientation behind the scenes so it'll be invisible to the end user.  Should be pretty easy to do.  No ETA on that though, so for now you're going to have to continue doing it by hand (or upgrade to a newer MAME)

-jeff!