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1 hour ago, dmjohn0x said:

Monkus shared a great curation project for MAME called All-Killer No Filler, and while it cuts down the set to around 25%

It's not even 25%, it's far less than that. A full rom set imported into Launchbox using all the filters to remove the junk is approximately 2700 games and my No Filler Mame set is 429 roms with a few duplicates for choice between 2 player and 4 player games like Gauntlet and TMNT.

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1 hour ago, Lordmonkus said:

It's not even 25%, it's far less than that. A full rom set imported into Launchbox using all the filters to remove the junk is approximately 2700 games and my No Filler Mame set is 429 roms with a few duplicates for choice between 2 player and 4 player games like Gauntlet and TMNT.

Nice, did you update it? Last time I ran it, It took me down to somewhere between 600 and 800games if I remember correctly. Either way, it was a great start and at least made it manageable for me to further curate the set by hand.

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Oh you must have been talking about the first No Filler batch file which wasn't mine exactly, I stole it from a forum thread on arcadecontrols.com site.

I did a version 2 of the No Filler project where I took feedback from people here on the forums and on Discord and built a set / batch file which uses the Non Merged Mame rom set.

 

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Just now, Lordmonkus said:

Oh you must have been talking about the first No Filler batch file which wasn't mine exactly, I stole it from a forum thread on arcadecontrols.com site.

I did a version 2 of the No Filler project where I took feedback from people here on the forums and on Discord and built a set / batch file which uses the Non Merged Mame rom set.

 

Nice. Gives me an excuse to update to the latest MAME set. Thanks for your work, brother.

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It should grab all the roms, nothing changed in that regard. It should pull out 439 roms files if you use the 201 batch file uploaded to the Third Party Apps downloads page.

Though if you are using Mame 201 the Capcom stuff that uses Qsound may or may not work because there was some changes made to it. I have no idea though since I have not tried the 201 roms on Mame 200.

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Yeah it's big download. What I do is this, I have a seedbox which I update every month with the newest rom set and then I use the text list of rom files to copy / paste into the filters of WinSCP which I use to FTP into my seedbox and that filters out everything but the rom files I want. I then select all and download telling it to only download new & updated files. Takes only a few minutes to update the No Filler set on my hard drive.

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I wonder if there is a way to run a script that automagically just updates and downloads using your list to my seedbox without my having to interfere. It'd be even better if I didnt have to manually grab the torrent, but that doesnt seem feasible as the only reliable host ive found for the updated sets are PD. 

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Updating from PD isn't hard at all. Just remove the torrent file from your seedbox torrent UI but leave the content on the server. Download the new torrent from PD and rename the folder on your seedbox to match what the new set will be and pull the torrent into your seedbox torrent. It will do a check and only download what is new and updated, which won't take long at all. Then you can use the text list to grab what you want from your seedbox how I described above.

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7 minutes ago, Lordmonkus said:

Updating from PD isn't hard at all. Just remove the torrent file from your seedbox torrent UI but leave the content on the server. Download the new torrent from PD and rename the folder on your seedbox to match what the new set will be and pull the torrent into your seedbox torrent. It will do a check and only download what is new and updated, which won't take long at all. Then you can use the text list to grab what you want from your seedbox how I described above.

I know its not difficult. I was simply thinking about how much better it'd be if we could figure out how to completely automate the process.

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7 hours ago, Thanos Reigns said:

I had 2 8tb drives, one was a backup. Completely lost both and have to start over from scratch. 

Holy crap, that is devastating. That’s my worst nightmare. There was a big storm here the other night so I turned the computer off and pulled the plug out from the wall. I know you’d do that in a storm anyway but I did it just with the games in mind as they are so precious to me. How did both of yours die?

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You were warned because you offered to fill a hdd with copyrighted material and send it to someone else making profit or not doesn't make it any less illegal and that in itself was the issue. If you were living up to your user name anything like that would have been discussed in private and then there wouldn't have been any warning.

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