DK and the detailed catver.ini file

[Frostillicus]

By detailed I mean the standard one - I guess there is the 'genre' catver.ini which has less info.

DK question: if I want to include ALL mame-only shooters what would my searchstring and filter look like?  Is this close?
searchstring:6=Shooter / Flying Vertical;6=Shooter / Misc. Horizontal;6=.....{continue with all 'Shooter / etc' entries};
filters:5="non-mame emu name";5="non-mame emu name";{etc}

Is there a list somewhere of all possible categories and their subcategories? or can you search by a character-string like "shooter".  Can I use asterixes like in the filter area? (such as --->  filters:6=*mature*;5=*control joy*

[Howard_Casto]

Yup you got it.....

Although for cats and only cats (don't hold me to this it's been a while).  I don't think you even have to do that much....  just put in 6=shooter and that should work.

If it doesn't make the search string 6=shooter* and that'll definately work, it's just wildcards slow down the searching process a little so it's best not to use them unless you have to.  

Since there aren't any catvers for other emus (that have gun games anyway)  there isn't any need to filter off other emulators.  But if you were you would use the "5=emulatorname" in the filters for each additional emu you run.  

Btw for laz and dk the following wildcards are accepted....

string*   for entries starting with the string specified

and *string* for entries that contain the text in the string specified.  

*string is not supported as I couldn't find a use for it that *string* wouldn't fill.  Also *.* isn't supported as that'd just be dumb to make a huge list of everything you have like that.  

[Frostillicus]

cool - thanks