How to Categorise PC Games in Gameex

[Geoffers08]

Hi All,

I've played around with Gameex for a while, but never to much depth, until I started my new Mame cab build, so my apologies in advance if this is a newbie-esq question.

 

I have managed (over the last two months) to download a wadge (about 400) free PC games, that I would like to add to my Mame Cab PC.

I have added these to Gameex, largely by directly adding each to my Gameex config file

Example of one game:

Enabled_172=True
name_172=Crime Patrol (LaserDisc Shooter)
path_172=H:\CrimePatrol
cmd_172=CP.exe
snap_172=
showdesktop_172=True
mapkeys_172=
WaitBeforeKeys_172=6000
SendKeys_172="f"

I have a range of games, but mainlt PC remakes, and shoot-em ups.

I am trying to arrange these into categories for easier navigation in Gameex, so I can (for example) group all horizontal shooters together under one categorie, then vertical shooters, and so on.

I have been tinkering and tinkering, but don't seem to be able to find a way. 

Is there a simple way I can achieve this?

 

Many thanks in advance to anyone who can give any advice.

 

Geoffers

[morgoth32]

Hi, the only way I know is to create a database (*.db3 file).

The database folder for Game Ex is in gameex/data/emulators and in the setup wizard you can join the database to your emulator.

It will take a looooot of time.

Good luck.

[nullPointer]

Morgoth32's solution would be one way of doing this, and would be a relatively sound solution.  As he mentioned, there would be a bit of a time investment.

As an alternative you could also (pick one):

1. Categorize games into separate directories
2. Categorize games into separate Map files

And then for each desired category you could create a separate emulator slot in which the directory path/map file pointed to the proper category.  I think I like the database solution better, but this would be another option.