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Title: Build FE in-game list from games in ROMS dir.
Post by: IIOIOOIOO on May 27, 2003, 01:35:03 am: Any of you FE guys have the ability to cross-reference the list from MAME -listinfo (to get the Name, orientation, etc) against the ROMs I actually have in the configured ROMs dir? I.E. If I have 1800 or so out of the full list, is there a way for me to have only the games I have appear on the game list without editing in/out an enormous number from the default list?

Just curious.
Title: Re:Build FE in-game list from games in ROMS dir.
Post by: )p( on May 27, 2003, 01:54:16 am: Quote from: IIOIOOIOO on May 27, 2003, 01:35:03 am
Any of you FE guys have the ability to cross-reference the list from MAME -listinfo (to get the Name, orientation, etc) against the ROMs I actually have in the configured ROMs dir? I.E. If I have 1800 or so out of the full list, is there a way for me to have only the games I have appear on the game list without editing in/out an enormous number from the default list?

Just curious.

I think all mame parsers of the major fe's cand do this. I actually don't know of one that does not...
(In mine the parser in the internal utility asks for this at the beginning in a yes/no popup box...)

peter
Title: Re:Build FE in-game list from games in ROMS dir.
Post by: SirPoonga on May 27, 2003, 01:54:49 am: Most FE's do that, only list the games you have.
Title: Re:Build FE in-game list from games in ROMS dir.
Post by: Howard_Casto on May 27, 2003, 02:01:54 am: FE's that don't have this option are considered primative in features. I haven't seen one that can't do this since the old dos fe days.
Title: Re:Build FE in-game list from games in ROMS dir.
Post by: IIOIOOIOO on May 27, 2003, 02:43:59 pm: Odd. I have the complete set, and MameWah never MENTIONED that it was doing that, so I just assumed it was doing a listinfo dump. Very cool.
Title: Re:Build FE in-game list from games in ROMS dir.
Post by: Howard_Casto on May 27, 2003, 05:21:22 pm: Why would it? Why in the world would you want games included in your list of games to launch that you don't have?

Common sense alert! ;)
Title: Re:Build FE in-game list from games in ROMS dir.
Post by: IIOIOOIOO on May 27, 2003, 06:22:32 pm: Haha! Surely you will admit that there are more than one sense-bending feature/lack of feature in the most popular FEs :)