Organizing Mame Roms 2014

[avisioncame]

I know it has been asked a million times. Most of the research I have done refers to older methods, and I always find it easier to learn if I ask it myself.

I have everything running smooth now, and it's time to trim down the roms I don't need within MAME.

I have a two player, six button control panel, and I really do not need games that use broken roms, lightguns, driving wheels, spinners, trackballs, mojang, adult....you get my point.

I would be willing to even use a pre-made XML file from a member with a similar panel. But I know this is a very subjective matter so I am willing to do the work myself if needed.

Is Don's still the best way to organize your XML list? any other pointers I should know? How can I tell if a game uses specific peripheral controls that I do not have?

[rfancella]

I know it has been asked a million times. Most of the research I have done refers to older methods, and I always find it easier to learn if I ask it myself.

I have everything running smooth now, and it's time to trim down the roms I don't need within MAME.

I have a two player, six button control panel, and I really do not need games that use broken roms, lightguns, driving wheels, spinners, trackballs, mojang, adult....you get my point.

I would be willing to even use a pre-made XML file from a member with a similar panel. But I know this is a very subjective matter so I am willing to do the work myself if needed.

Is Don's still the best way to organize your XML list? any other pointers I should know? How can I tell if a game uses specific peripheral controls that I do not have?

Give ROMLister a try.

It allows you to filter based on your CP setup and lots of other settings.

http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/

Thanks,

Ron

[avisioncame]

Give ROMLister a try.

It allows you to filter based on your CP setup and lots of other settings.

http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/

Thanks,

Ron

I tried Romlister a while back just messing around, and was having issues with it not recognizing 7zip files or something like that. Does that sound familiar to you?

[snstay]

Or you can try dons hyperspin. It works out really good

[HzerbThaWizherb]

Or you can try dons hyperspin. It works out really good

Yeah Dons Hyperspin List Splitter worked great for me. It will output the xml by genres so you can at least use it to thin out some of the gun, driving, mahjong, etc games.

[avisioncame]

I am trying to organize using RomLister right now. The tutorial I am following from the BYOAC tutorial site is so outdated. The "controls.xml" and all that good stuff is out of date...and I don't even understand what it's for. Any help guys?

[rfancella]

I am trying to organize using RomLister right now. The tutorial I am following from the BYOAC tutorial site is so outdated. The "controls.xml" and all that good stuff is out of date...and I don't even understand what it's for. Any help guys?

Yea, the controls.xml is out of date. And there is no one keeping it up. It's what tells RomLister what each games uses for controls. So when you choose 2 player 6 button, it looks them up in that file.

Thanks,

Ron

[albert_c]

I am trying to organize using RomLister right now. The tutorial I am following from the BYOAC tutorial site is so outdated. The "controls.xml" and all that good stuff is out of date...and I don't even understand what it's for. Any help guys?

Skip ROMLister and use Don's bro. More stable, robust, and IMO easier to use. Two keys for successful usage of Don's is:

1. Setup the system correctly in HyperHQ, making sure to point to the emulator path correctly and adding in the rom extensions separated by a comma (i.e. for MAME it should be: zip,7z.

2. Run Don's from its own directory in the HyperSpin directory (i.e. C:/HyperSpin/Don's HyperSpin Tools.

Here is a

I created for Don's usage, click on the 3rd section.