MAME History.xml Viewer

[JoeViking245]

MAME History.xml Viewer

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View game specific history from MAME's history.xml

Inspired from MAME's built in feature in the main UI and via their in-game Tab menu

 

Prerequisites

• Requires LaunchBox 13.3 or newer
• MAME or MAMEui set as the game(s) emulator
• "history.xml"  (download it from https://www.arcade-history.com/)
  • MAME users:  Place the file in the "history" subfolder of your MAME emulator.
    • i.e.  D:\Emulators\MAME\history\history.xml
  • MAMEui users: Place the file in the "dats" subfolder of your MAME emulator.
    • i.e.  D:\Emulators\MAMEui\dats\history.xml

Currently only available in LaunchBox (not BigBox)

Installing

• Download and then open the plugin file using 7zip.
  • if you don't use 7zip, first unblock the file (Right click, select Properties, and click Unblock) then open it as you normally would.
• Extract the main folder from inside the zip file into ..\LaunchBox\Plugins\
  • i.e. D:\LaunchBox\Plugins\MAMEhistoryXml\ 
• Start LaunchBox

Using
Right-click on a game and select View MAME History.

Updating history.xml
When loading the plugin, it will check your local version of history.xml against what's available on https://www.arcade-history.com/.
If a newer version is available, you will be given the option to Update your local copy.
    Updating will attempt to download and then replace your existing file.

As always, all thoughts, views, opinions, suggestions, comments and accolades are welcome. 😎
 

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• Submitter
  JoeViking245
• Submitted
  12/19/2024
• Category
  Third-party Apps and Plugins

 

[Joe35car]

Seems like the updates don't work anymore. It stopped at .275.

[JoeViking245]

2 hours ago, Joe35car said:

Seems like the updates don't work anymore. It stopped at .275.

That must be about the time this plugin was depreciated and replaced with the 'new and improved' all-in-one MAMEdatsViewer plugin.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

See here for the replacement plugin: