filter all games by screen orientation: horizontal???

[Joels Arcade]

Hello I have tried to figure out how to create a filter to sort out games that have horizontal orientation. I have built a Vertically oriented cabinet and would like to do the opposite of the Vertically oriented games playlist that is automatically created when importing a mame set. in the metadata there is a field called screen orientation : horizontal. but i cannot select that field in the filter selection drop down. 

im simply trying to filter my all games to only display horizontal games so that i can easily remove them from this setup without having to go through each game one by one. Can anyone provide assistance please? thanks

[launchretrogirl2562]

Is this possibly a solution?
 

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[damageinc86]

I've just created horizontal.ini and vertical.ini using powershell scripts running against my romset (.220). 

vertical.ini horizontal.ini

[launchretrogirl2562]

8 hours ago, damageinc86 said:

I've just created horizontal.ini and vertical.ini using powershell scripts running against my romset (.220). 

vertical.ini 8.48 kB · 0 downloads horizontal.ini 63.82 kB · 1 download

nice work.
Of course, it should be named horizont.ini 

[JoeViking245]

5 hours ago, launchretrogirl2562 said:

it should be named horizont.ini 

The file is just a MAME derived list of the machines (games) only (no configurations).  So can be named whatever_descriptive_name.ini.  This would get placed in /MAME/ini/folders/ then can be accessed in the MAME interface by selecting Custom Filter.

Alternately, it can be used by something like the MAME (Custom) XML Importer plugin for importing just the games listed.

Correction: can be used by something like the Create Playlists from MAME category ini files plugin for creating playlists from just the games listed.

Or, one could just look through it to see all the ROM names for horizontally oriented machines.

[damageinc86]

6 hours ago, launchretrogirl2562 said:

nice work.
Of course, it should be named horizont.ini 

Yeah, im only using these ini files with the launchbox playlist from ini plugin.  So i have them named what i want them to be named.  Like this file control_type.  

Also, my lists probably technically don't have every single MAME game in them, as my set has been culled down a little.  I'm not even sure I have any chd games included at all, since I never had the hard drive space for them.  But these would still be helpful for most setups.  As a good starting point if nothing else.

control_type.ini

Edited Saturday at 04:23 PM by damageinc86