[RESOLVED] Possible to only display 2P version of Mame roms?

[eatfreshsub]

What I would like, is to have Mame display either both the 2p and 4p versions of a rom, or just the 2p versions. Games like The Simpsons, only allow you to be certain characters when you play there 4p variant depending on the slot in which your controller is set for. This wouldn't be that big of a problem, if GameEx didn't use them as there default rom, but since it is, I cant simply show all clones or else my list goes from 2.6k to 6.7k. Is there some sort of work around to get other roms to be prioritized?

Thanks .

[Draco1962]

Using Setup Wizard and under the Advance MAME Settings, you can enable/disable Show 4 Player Games. Have you tried disabling that setting? While it only enables the creation of a separate list of 4 player games, when disabled, you will not see the list and should see just the standard multiplayer (2 player) games listed. You can probably also set up your filters to more specifically repress them from the list (you will need to update list following such a change).

[nullPointer]

Also remember that for most of the popular 4p games, the 2p versions are considered to be clones where the 4p version is considered to be the parent ROM. For this reason it's not so much a GameEx issue as it is a MAME thing. You might be able to circumvent this if you enter the name of the 2p clone ROM in the 'Don't Filter these ROMs' field on the MAME Settings screen in the Setup Wizard.

[eatfreshsub]

Managed to fix it by looking up the 2 player clone names and just adding them to do not filter. Changing the categories in Setup Wizard did nothing however. Thanks for suggesting filters, wasn't thinking it would find my clones since there merged.

[nullPointer]

Glad you got it sorted out eatfreshsub! Mind if I take the liberty of marking this one as resolved?

Edited February 10, 2013 by nullPointer
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