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For folks with this issue, you should consider running the Remote Desktop hack (google "RDP Wrapper") and using Remote Desktop to do your ROM list management. Create another admin user account, and you can log in and do this stuff without disturbing the front end at all. The hack stops the remote desktop user from kicking off the main user and also enables it on "Home" variants of Windows. This way you can use your laptop's native resolution for management, without disturbing the primary desktop. I use both TightVNC and Remote Desktop so I don't need to do this kind of stuff on the cab itself. TightVNC is better for testing stuff since it won't change the sound output or video resolution (mirrors display instead of redirecting).

@Antropus Awesome. Look forward to trying it out! Thanks again for your work on this.

Thanks for this fantastic app! The "All Killer no filler" feature, and more specifically, the ability to assimilate a group of rom lists, was something I was desperately trying to find. I had done all kinds of crazy things with batch files to sort of get there. I think you have mastered the "add" cases. I can build my desired game list brilliantly in several ways now. I can merge my output into my existing Attract Mode gamelist now, or build my custom output search-by-search, or even just drop another txt file into the game list folder. Really awesome. Now I feel like we need a better way to manage exclusions. I tend to remove things from my FE as I go through my Attract Mode wheel (say, japanese games with so much Kanji that it's not playable for me, or games I manually determine I can't control reasonably with my cab). Problem then is that these games "find their way" back into my game list again if I ever refresh from my master gameslists, unless I go through and manually remove them from the killer games lists. Just like how I want to preserve the work I use to build the lists, I also want to preserve my deletions. Would be great if I could 1) Specify a list of roms (exclude.txt) that I always want to exclude from output. If it's in that file, I don't want to see it ever again. 2) Come up with some sort of diffing mechanism that lets me determine things that have been removed from Attract Mode since the last export. I can probably cobble up something with linux command line diffing/parsing to extrapolate and add to exclude.txt if this is too much for LightSpeed to handle on its own. The other thing I'm wondering is if anyone has other ideas of sources for quality game lists to add to the list of killer games? I recommended one on the other forum (see attached), it's a "golden era" list that was thoughtfully put together on another site. It fills a lot of gaps (like Arkanoid). I still have a feeling there are a lot of great games missing from the master lists, and I'm wondering if there are other sources / game ratings sites we can tap into? goldenroms.txt