Mame Software List

[indysgill]

Hi, 

Is there a way for Mame to be separated into Arcade and Software roms? I want Mame in Launchbox to just show the Arcade roms, Software files can be opened by the Mame UI.

I want to hide all the Software in Launchbox, currently I have to go through each letter and select what I think are software and use Bulk to hide them, but with over 20,000 files that's going to take ages. I'd like to just be able to have them separated automatically, then I can select them all and hide.

Is there a way to do this?

[JoeViking245]

17 minutes ago, indysgill said:

Is there a way for Mame to be separated into Arcade and Software roms?

LaunchBox doesn't natively import MAME's softlists.  That said, (some/most/all) softlist BIOS and Device files are in with the MAME full Arcade set. (just not the softlist game ROMs)

If you use the MAME Arcade Full Set Import Wizard, on one of the screens is a list of items to check/un-check.  One of them is Skip Games Unplayable in MAME (or similar).  Unchecking that will import the miscellaneous file you're [most likely] seeing.

If you don't want to reimport, you can click the filter icon (when in your Arcade platform) and select Genre - System - BIOS and delete the resulting files.  Do the same with Genre -System - Device.

I say "delete" (in LaunchBox, that is) because they do you no good and you can't play them anyway.  If you want to "Hide" them instead, select All of the above resulting filtered files and press Ctrl+E to start the Bulk Edit Wizard.  Then select Hide and set it to true (or however it's deemed).

[indysgill]

Thanks for that, I've been away so will give that a go tomorrow.