[RESOLVED] Screensaver/ All Games rom list

[Noddy]

As part of cleaning up my mame cabinet I'm cutting the games list way down and hoping to end up with a list of under 1000 to increase the chances of people finding games they'll like or know.

It's just occured to me that the screensaver (which I love on the cabinet) gets it's playlist from what Mame considers available and not the GameEx All Games list.

I'm trying to get my head around what the easiest way would be to go back and remove the uneeded roms so that the screensaver reflects what is on the cabinet? I can copy the exclude roms list from GameEx's settings, add it to a batchfile and use that to remove them but it will still leave all the other versions of the game and so will probably leave a huge number of games showing on the screensaver. At a couple of thousand roms that's a lot of time to go game by game and check/add what roms need to be added.

A list of roms in GameExs ALL GAMES list would be perfect as I can then move them to a new folder and clean it up completely. Is there anyway to get a list or does anyone have any suggestions for how I can avoid going game by game to get my mame rom folder back to just games featured in the GameEx list?

[bkenobi]

I was pretty sure there was a setting for this. I know you can tell it to just play the favorites, but I thought it could also be set to only use available roms. I haven't checked in a while, but I know that, by default, GameEx will perform as you describe. On my driving machine I physically deleted all roms I didn't want played so it wouldn't take up HDD space, which solved the screen saver issue.

[Noddy]

But if GameEx doesn't move roms wouldn't mame still class them as available/working?

If not set to favourites I thought the screensaver used any working roms rather than the All Games list in GameEx but after leaving it running for ages I really don't know?

I deleted the bulk of the roms I didnt want by category (mahjong,casino etc) but I'm trying to avoid starting one from scratch and adding the roms because I like having some games I don't know, I've found some new favourites walking past the screensaver at the right time, just trying to get a better balance atm.

[Adultery]

So you deleted the roms or deleted them in GameEx?

[Noddy]

In GameEx

The previous ones mahjong etc I removed the roms with Romlister but now I'm just wondering about games deleted using GameEx.

[Noddy]

Ok so it looks like the screensaver already uses the GameEx all games list, yay for me and sorry all for starting a stupid thread, I think I've been staring at the computer screen for too long .

I'll mark the thread resolved but can anyone tell me how the GameEx All Games list actually works?

I had assumed that as it doesn't remove or move the roms that it was basically the same as the favourites list just starting with all the games listed rather than none. But is GameEx actually telling MAME that the games deleted from the GameEx menu are unavailable roms?

(I switched from mameui to command line as it works better with GameEx but I've never used the command line on its own which is why I havent just opened MAME to check).

[Adultery]

The all games list is basically all the games you have acrossed all emulators and populates off of the DBs for each system.

[bkenobi]

I think the all games list is all games in all systems UNLESS the system is marked as not included in the screen saver. I don't let GameEx use any emulator except MAME for my screen saver, but AFAIK it's set to all games.

[Draco1962]

I have mine set to only use MAME and only from my favorites. Works best IMO.