ItchyRobot Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 (edited) Noob here again ... I have the entire 198 MAME rom set. Using the default MAME gui, I have slowly gone through and set about 100 games to "Favorites". Before setting up Launchbox I would like to pull out all of my "Favorites" into a curated rom set, and not use all the other 1000's of roms in the set... just a waste of space. I know MAME is finicky, sometimes not having a single rom, but instead requiring multiple roms (parent, etc) piggy backing on top of each other, and also sometimes requiring separate chd's for the rom to load. Obviously, I have all the needed files, with the roms on one folder, the chd's in another folder... but there are thousands upon thousands of files to look through, and I can not tell which ones are dependent on each other. Is there a tool, or some other easy way to see what files I need for each game? Like I said, I would like to only use the files i NEED for each rom to run. For example, there are a lot of Gauntlet roms in the 198 rom set, but I only want to use the 2-player version that I have setup already. How do I know if I can pull that single rom out, or if I need the other ten or more associated roms. =========== On a side note, is this the same approach you guys take with MAME? I kind of like the idea of maybe leaving the entire set to scroll through and slowly build up my Arcade playlist over time. But I figured I could do that on the side as I continue to find new gems and perfect their bezels and controls before adding them to Launchbox. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Edited July 10, 2018 by ItchyRobot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItchyRobot Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 This looks like it may be what I was looking for. Anyone have experience with the program? https://github.com/longjoel/MameMiner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Just get a nonmerged set and delete what you don't want its set up so it doesn't have any dependencies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItchyRobot Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 26 minutes ago, DOS76 said: Just get a nonmerged set and delete what you don't want its set up so it doesn't have any dependencies. Ok, good. I do have the non-merged ROM set, but my CHD set is merged... will that affect me? I didn't see a non-merged CHD set when searching the P.D. site. That's why I ended up with the merged CHD set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 no if you have the merged CHDs they will all be in the folder so it should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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