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justniz

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New Feature Request
« on: 27 August 2011, 20:14 »

Hi Roman and everyone else,

I like quickly being able to make sure I have a full set of MAME roms, however I am only interested in arcade video games and will never want to mess with pintables or fruit machines.

Since pintables and fruit machines got added to MAME, there are like a million romsets that we now have to download to stop clrmamepro identifying them as missing, even though there are apparently no plans to have MAME emulate slots or pintables playably anytime soon.

It would be great if clrmamepro could have an extra list to differentiate by basic machine type, say a simple list of checkboxes, one for each of "Video Games", "Fruit/Slot Machines", "Pinball" (and eventually maybe "Consoles" for if the devs merge MESS and MAME together), so that if you want those extra sets, then you can check the boxes and clrmamepro will check for them too (like it does now).

Unless the checkbox for the machine type is ticked, clrmamepro should completely ignore all romsets of that machine type just as if MAME doesn't need or even know about those sets. If they are already in the roms directory, then they get moved out to the backup directory just like other unknown files. That way, our roms directories can be smaller and without clrmamepro indicating missing sets.

Whatdya think?
« Last Edit: 27 August 2011, 20:17 by justniz »
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Re: New Feature Request
« Reply #1 on: 27 August 2011, 20:31 »

from what I know, it should not be possible as things are today.
What you require will need those infos (videogame, pinball, fruitmachine, consolle) to be included into MAME, ecause clrmame gets it's data from MAME itself. So you should send your request to mamdevs, not to Roman.

An alternative would be to have someone sort all the games manually, and release a datfile for each separate cathegory.
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Re: New Feature Request
« Reply #2 on: 27 August 2011, 21:04 »

what about optionally filtering on the "ismechanical" attribute in the -listxml output?
Its not perfect but its better than nothing.
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Re: New Feature Request
« Reply #3 on: 28 August 2011, 08:50 »

if I have an exe can I produce a list of dats from it???
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Re: New Feature Request
« Reply #4 on: 28 August 2011, 15:16 »

since I'm on the road today I come back to you tomorrow.....
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Re: New Feature Request
« Reply #5 on: 29 August 2011, 08:53 »

You can simply disable the "mechanical" system in the system dialog. Or use "select sets" in the set information window in combination with the mechanic variable filter to not-select mechanical sets (use "logical not" in combination with %M=1)
Additionally you can enable scanner's advanced option to mark disabled sets as unneeded.
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