Working Mame Playlists

[kal9000]

I've recently started down the path of setting up Mame with a full romset using Launchbox. I'm not sure how best to handle the fact that so many mame games are not yet working, require steering wheels/light-guns, etc. I checked to see if anyone had created 'working' mame playlists in launchbox but haven't found anything. Does anyone have a recommended way of filtering this stuff out? I like the idea of keeping a full mame romset just for simplicity sake, but an ability to filter out mahjong, adult games, and games that don't require or require non-standard controls would be really helpful. I wonder how other launchbox users are approaching this.

 

Thanks!

[neil9000]

4 hours ago, kal9000 said:

I've recently started down the path of setting up Mame with a full romset using Launchbox. I'm not sure how best to handle the fact that so many mame games are not yet working, require steering wheels/light-guns, etc. I checked to see if anyone had created 'working' mame playlists in launchbox but haven't found anything. Does anyone have a recommended way of filtering this stuff out? I like the idea of keeping a full mame romset just for simplicity sake, but an ability to filter out mahjong, adult games, and games that don't require or require non-standard controls would be really helpful. I wonder how other launchbox users are approaching this.

 

Thanks!

This is all handled by default by the mame fullset importer. Just run the importer from Tools/Import/MAME fullset importer, and on the last page of the wizard are a bunch of filters and playlist options. I recommend leaving everything as is, as this will only import known working games, and will exclude adult, mahjong and mechanical games, just like you want. You will end up with around 2800 working games.