Dragon King Game Lists

[Terry]

Hope this is a quick one.  When I generate my roms list in DK it puts all my parent and clone roms into the main list.  This is fine.  But it also puts in all the non-working roms.  Yes I have a few since I have not sorted them all out yet.  In Mame32 I noticed that using the exact same roms folder, it automatically elimated any games that are not playable from the list.

Is this possible to configure DK to do the same?

Thanks

[Howard_Casto]

in your filters put: 7=Unplayable

[Terry]

I tried this and it still does not work.  This is the scenario.  Below are the game lists I have set up.

[startvd]
[path]
logo=complete.png
caption=Mame
useclones=1
searchstrings:5=MAME
filters:7=unplayable
[/path]
[path]
logo=racing.png
caption=driving
useclones=1
searchstrings:6=racing*
filters:7=unplayable
[/path]
[path]
logo=fighting.png
caption=fighting
useclones=1
searchstrings:6=fighter*
filters:7=unplayable
[/path]
[path]
logo=shooter.png
caption=shooting
useclones=1
searchstrings:6=shooter*
filters:
[/path]
[path]
logo=gun.png
caption=light gun
useclones=1
searchstrings:6=gun*
filters:
[/path]
[path]
logo=platform.png
caption=Platform
useclones=1
searchstrings:6=platform*
filters:
[/path]
[path]
logo=maze.png
caption=maze
useclones=1
searchstrings:6=maze*
filters:
[/path]
[path]
logo=sports.png
caption=sports
useclones=1
searchstrings:6=sport*
filters:
[/path]
[path]
logo=misc.png
caption=Other
useclones=1
searchstrings:6=misc*
filters:
[/path]
[/startvd]

I added the 7=unplayable to my filters line on the first three game lists.   When I rescan for roms, the game lists are unchanged.  For testing purposed, I am focusing on one certain game, Street Fighter Alpha 3 (US 980629).  This is a clone, and I do not have the other roms necessary for it to play correctly.  So when I choose this game in DK, nothing happens.  I set the 7=unplayable and this particular game (along with others with the same problems) are not removed from the game lists.

When I set useclones=0, then like I would have expected, those games are removed, but so do other clones that I do not want removed.

Exactly how does this particular filter work.  Where does it look to get the information that a game is not playable?  Or is this generated on the fly?  I feel like I am missing some other dat file or something on those lines.  I currently have the latest catver file in the proper directory.

Thanks again for the help.

[Howard_Casto]

First off it's 7=Unplayable, not 7=unplayable.  
There is a difference.  

I get the data from the catver.ini, as it has a section for games that are added to mame but have broken drivers.  


Secondly you are wanting to remove games with missing or corrupt roms from your list, not non-working roms.  There is a huge difference.  

Here's how you do it...... go to the directory that the rom is in. Locate the rom in question and click on it.  Now press delete.  Presto, rescan your roms and it's gone from the list!

Seriously I don't do crc checks for roms when generating a list.  If I did making a gamelist would be slower than when romcenter reads the mame.dat file upon bootup. (Just as an example, romcenter has nothing to do with dk)

However there is a verify roms option in the fronend.ini.  It asks mame if the rom is ok prior to loading the game.  If it's not, it will give you a message to let you know that this rom or roms require attention.  

It's your responsibility to make sure that your roms are ok. I just let you know if they are there or not.  You'll find that almost every fe out there is like this.  

[Terry]

Thanks.  Makes sense!