Idea: GameEx Project Scorecard

[mightypeniz]

Having recently rebuilt my arcade cabinet PC, I'd forgotten just how HUGE a GameEx environment can get when you have more than a handful of emus set up. Polishing up the end user experience can be pretty daunting.. Anyway, I created a spreadsheet to help me work out where I was in the project.. Worked well, but there's always a better way.

So... I'm thinking about writing a script which does this:

Read GameEx config file

---> For each emulator which is enabled in GameEx

---------> Read file/folder details for roms, snaps, titles, boxes, carts, movies, etc.

---------> Count roms/snaps/etc in those folders

---------> Output results in HTML or something similar, with percentage of extras vs roms.

Anyone else interested in this? I'll gladly stick to my spreadsheet if not

Would be sweet if this functionality was eventually rolled into the Setup Wizard, but I'll happily do a proof of concept in the meantime

Spreadsheet is online at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pUK...Uxb-M8kiRmtyaA.. (attachment feature won't stop initialising when I tried to attach it.)

edit: this time it would let me upload the spreadsheet..

GameEx_Project.zip

[mightypeniz]

When you enter "OK" in the first few columns, it goes green. But I just realised this version of the spreadsheet doesn't have the right conditional formatting or formulas as the previous one I'd done. Use your imagination - when you fill in the ROMS and snaps/carts/boxes/etc, it shades each box in as a ratio of how many snaps/carts/boxes you have vs ROMS.