Listing a Game Twice in a Playlist?

[DelugeIA]

Is it possible to list a game twice in one playlist?

For example, I have a playlist called "Cabinet" that I use with Big Box on my MAME Cabinet. I would like to list Ms Pac-Man (mspacman) and Ms Pac-Man Fast (mspacmnf) separately. They are both part of the same merged game set and only show up once in the "All" playlist.

Thanks!

[Retro808]

15 hours ago, DelugeIA said:

Is it possible to list a game twice in one playlist?

For example, I have a playlist called "Cabinet" that I use with Big Box on my MAME Cabinet. I would like to list Ms Pac-Man (mspacman) and Ms Pac-Man Fast (mspacmnf) separately. They are both part of the same merged game set and only show up once in the "All" playlist.

Thanks!

If both version are under a single game listing in your arcade platform then they will not show as a separated game in the playlist. Only way right now to do that is to have the roms separated in the original platform.

[DelugeIA]

1 hour ago, Retro808 said:

If both version are under a single game listing in your arcade platform then they will not show as a separated game in the playlist. Only way right now to do that is to have the roms separated in the original platform.

Thank you Retro808! That is exactly the hint I needed. For posterity... 

In my example, I changed the name of the existing entry to "Ms. Pac-Man (Fast)". Created a separate ROMS folder "Duplicates". Copied the ROM to the Duplicates folder and imported it with the wizard.

When prompted, "Would you like to move or copy the files?", choose the third option "Use the files in their current location."

When prompted, "Would you like to specify any custom options?", check "Force importing duplicate games" and uncheck "Combine ROMs with matching titles into a single game."

That created the duplicate entry which I was able to add to my playlist.

Also... If you don't change the name of the original first, but instead change the name afterwards, it moves all the images and then the duplicate has no images. You can simply edit the duplicate and re-click "Download Image/Media" and it will grab it all again with that entries name.

THANKS AGAIN!