d8thstar Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 is this possible? just upgraded my set from 255 to 256. would be awesome to have automatic playlists or filters to say “show me all new games in 256” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 On 7/19/2023 at 11:35 PM, d8thstar said: is this possible? just upgraded my set from 255 to 256. would be awesome to have automatic playlists or filters to say “show me all new games in 256” Not natively in LB. Possible with a plugin. LB does not know "what's new" as the Mame.xaml it reads to get the playable games list does not log what changes there are per Mame version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d8thstar Posted July 24, 2023 Author Share Posted July 24, 2023 just thinking out loud on this... wouldn't it be possible for LB to compare two XML's, eg 255 vs 256, and then only display the differences found? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 On 7/19/2023 at 8:35 PM, d8thstar said: is this possible? just upgraded my set from 255 to 256. would be awesome to have automatic playlists or filters to say “show me all new games in 256” Of course it's possible. To accomplish what you're asking, first you need to go to https://mameinfo.mameworld.info/ and download: *NEW* MAMEUI 0.2xx Category-, Version and Alltime inifiles (where "0.2xx" is the most recent MAME release) You might get an 'unsafe to download' warning. There are no executable files inside the zip. Just information (.ini) files [I'm guessing that's why it's flagged]. Inside the zip file is a folder called folders. Extract this folder into (the typical location is) ..\MAME\ini\ i.e. D:\Emulators\MAME\ini\folders\ Next (with LaunchBox closed), download and install this plug in following the instructions under "How to use:". In (How to use:) step #3, select the file "Version.ini". In step #4, select the version you updated to (0.256 as of your writing). Now follow the rest of the steps. You could of course make a playlist for each revision update starting from 0.129u5, if you're so inclined. Note: This assumes you imported the updated set into LaunchBox. That is, the plugin will show all the ROMs that were added (per the ini file) but the playlist created will only contain games you actually have in your selected platform (step #5). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d8thstar Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 Joe, you are my hero! this isn't the first time you've helped with one of my stupid questions I really appreciate your insight man! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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