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Default genre for MAME


Alex1471

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I created some genres to keep track on the many arcade games.

Is there a way to set a default genre in hyperspin? It always starts with all games.

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Make whichever genre XML you want to start with the default mame.xml file, then have the complete database as a selectable genre.

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Thanks for the fast replay.

I renamed MAME.xml to All Games.xml, my favorites to MAME.xml and added All Games in Genre.xml.

Unfortunately this didn’t solve my problem: the Wheel now starts with my favorites (that’s good) but if I choose All Games in the genre-wheel I just get the favorites and not all games. Furthermore it’s a little bit confusion, that if MAME.xml is choose the message “current genre: All Games” is shown, even though only the favorites are shown.   

Do you know what’s the use of "start_on_favorites=false/true" in the MAME.ini? Maybe using this is a possible solution?

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Yeah HS is setup such that the "All Games" toggle takes you back to your primary xml; in this case mame.xml. You probably have 2x "All Games" on the genre wheel somewhere now. The method's functional but it's a bit of a workaround and requires a few tweaks. If you still want to go that route I can help you out once I'm at hope and able to poke through the files.

Give the MAME.ini option a shot if its your favourites you're after.

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