eezetee Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 While using a few tools and creating my list of games that I know (not necessarily the games that people that play my arcade know) and seeing posts from folks with thousands of games, I wondered Do you keep the entire Hyperlist database in your hyperspin build or do you edit? I can't image sifting through thousands of games to find the one i'm looking for. I do however use my memberships to download the themes and videos for all the games but edit the XML with only hte games I want. Is there a better way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marxkemp Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Download complete sets to forfill my ocd. I create favorite wheels, favorites or specific genre's from the full sets to trim it down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eezetee Posted August 18, 2014 Author Share Posted August 18, 2014 I figured most were hoarders of old school ROM sets. What do you do if you have some buddies over and you have to scroll through thousands of games? I guess the favourites work. Maybe it comes down to a bit of a "yeah, I have that game" kinda thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marxkemp Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 - Try Hypersearch - create a genre.xml and a top100.xml from a list from the web - create favorites.txt with your personal favorites - create a whole party wheel with all of the above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albert_c Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 For MAME, nope. Silly to do so. Too many clones. Too many games that require special controls. Too many mahjong games. Too many casino games. Too many adult games. I edit down the HyperList with Don's HyperSpin Tools. Also, makes it so there is less media to have to download/sync with HyperSync. I documented how I did this (3rd section). It's the easiest way I know how to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eezetee Posted August 19, 2014 Author Share Posted August 19, 2014 @Albert, yep, that's exactly what I do. Minor difference is that I exclude all and spent a couple of hours going through the media/system/video games (after hypersync) and using those I'll have one window open with the playlist of videos and another window with Don's hyperspin tools then just do my control-F to add it. Worked well for me. I just checked and I've got 198 games in my MAME list. Well plenty for me. Good video and I've added it to my list of helpful links that I'll share back with the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrmikey73 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 I use brolly a XML in his folder on the FTP that gets rid of mahjong and casino games. I then use themes only which covers most popular games and makes my cab look awesome in mame. I'm sure I'm missing some good games but when new themes come out its like getting a new game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damageinc86 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 I think it's a great idea to have a list based on themes/artwork. That way like you said, it's kind of like finding a new game when you see a new theme and add it to the wheel. With thousands of games, I think that kind of brings the fun back into discovering games you either haven't played in forever, forgot about, or never knew about in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bondy Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 I do the same as you guys - Don's Hyperspin Tools, sorted basically by themes. I figure if a theme was made, the game can't be tooooo terrible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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