Game lists for different button schematics

[Shmizzle]

I'm currently building a smaller cab with only 2 buttons. That being the case, I only want MAME games that require 1 to 2 buttons.

Does anyone know of any game lists or anything available for achieving such a task?

Just curious what everyone's method is for building cabs with different #'s of buttons without going through EVERY game,

thanks,

[Shmizzle]

Also, do you think it would make a cool feature for Gameex to be able to select how many buttons your cab has and have a built in game filter or something?

[Tempest]

Also, do you think it would make a cool feature for Gameex to be able to select how many buttons your cab has and have a built in game filter or something?

I do think that this is an interesting idea. I don't know if I'll ever do it, but I as thinking of building a cabinet with a rotating control panel. I hadn't though of having a different game list for each panel. It would also be handy for people with "swap-able controls".

If you look at the controls.xml (I cut this from a post by Headkaze)

<player number="1" numButtons="2">
	<controls>
		<control name="8-way Joystick">
			<constant name="joy8way"/>
		</control>
	</controls>
<labels>

It shows that player #1 use two buttons, and an 8 way joystick. So its definately do-able.

Do you have the ability to write a script to sort all of the games based on a variable? (numbuttons =, constant name=,etc.)

You would have to be able to sort the games, and build a map file for each set of variables.

If you can write something to do that, I'd do my part, and download it to use!

I'm still think out loud...

Maybe it wouldn't be a map file, It seems to me that if would be a list of games like found in multiplayer.ini.

[Shmizzle]

Thanks for the ideas Tempest.

Never written script so the ability to do so is unknown, but like you said an .ini file would be the way to go.

I checked out the controls.ini and it does list the games and the controls it goes with. So I can go with that information and get to work...

...but then again, anyone know how complete that list is?

[Tempest]

Thanks for the ideas Tempest.

Never written script so the ability to do so is unknown, but like you said an .ini file would be the way to go.

I checked out the controls.ini and it does list the games and the controls it goes with. So I can go with that information and get to work...

...but then again, anyone know how complete that list is?

I think as long as you have the latest version, that the contols.ini is as good as it gets. There might be enough of this type of thing around that It's possible that I might be able to figure it out. On the other hand, if some one who already knew what they were doing would do it.....

[bkenobi]

I've worked with the controls.ini in the past to come up with a list for each number of buttons. I don't remember how old it is and it relies on everything being present and correct in the controls.ini. Anyway, here's what I came up with. It's setup to be a MAME32 compatible file, so you can put it in your customfolders directory and next time you update your list, it will show up too.

Not that it matters, but this was originally written in an attempt to help configure 5 and 6 button games quicker since I would know which ones they were straight away!

Buttons_Per_Game.ini.txt

[Shmizzle]

I've worked with the controls.ini in the past to come up with a list for each number of buttons. I don't remember how old it is and it relies on everything being present and correct in the controls.ini. Anyway, here's what I came up with. It's setup to be a MAME32 compatible file, so you can put it in your customfolders directory and next time you update your list, it will show up too.

Not that it matters, but this was originally written in an attempt to help configure 5 and 6 button games quicker since I would know which ones they were straight away!

THANKS bkenobi! That is pretty much what I was looking for.

Much appreciation.

[Tempest]

I've worked with the controls.ini in the past to come up with a list for each number of buttons. I don't remember how old it is and it relies on everything being present and correct in the controls.ini. Anyway, here's what I came up with. It's setup to be a MAME32 compatible file, so you can put it in your customfolders directory and next time you update your list, it will show up too.

Not that it matters, but this was originally written in an attempt to help configure 5 and 6 button games quicker since I would know which ones they were straight away!

I appreciate this, but I am wondering, how you came up with the list, and if it was an automated process, could that process be easily modified to sort out trackball,spinner,steering wheel games, etc. It would be pretty handy to be able to sort to your own needs, especially if you had a sit down driving cab!

[bkenobi]

It was automanually generated

I use Excel for pretty much everything these days, so I imported the controls.ini file into Excel and via some carefully selected filtering equations I was able to come up with a list that contained the game name and the number of buttons for player 1. This could be done for any other control if desired. I actually used this same procedure to filter the driving and spinner games.

[Tempest]

It was automanually generated

I use Excel for pretty much everything these days, so I imported the controls.ini file into Excel and via some carefully selected filtering equations I was able to come up with a list that contained the game name and the number of buttons for player 1. This could be done for any other control if desired. I actually used this same procedure to filter the driving and spinner games.

If I asked really nicely, would you mind sharing the other files for that you have for different control types? Please?

[Barcio]

Hi, maybe you already know it, but Romlister is a software which can output lists of roms in several file formats and with maaaaany filter settings (controls type, category, screen orientation).

I found it because I wished to load a button configuration based on the number of buttons of each rom. Unfortunately scripting is a completely unknown world to me, then the software lies abandoned in my hd.. Well, I hope this link can help.

Link:

Romlister

[Tempest]

Hi, maybe you already know it, but Romlister is a software which can output lists of roms in several file formats and with maaaaany filter settings (controls type, category, screen orientation).

I found it because I wished to load a button configuration based on the number of buttons of each rom. Unfortunately scripting is a completely unknown world to me, then the software lies abandoned in my hd.. Well, I hope this link can help.

Link:

Romlister

That looks interesting! I will check it out as soon as I fix what I broke 30 minutes ago

[bkenobi]

ROMlister does basically what I did except in a much better way. I could upload the driving games list, but I think using that software would get you better results. I'm going to give it a try!

[bkenobi]

Yeah, ROMLister is much faster than what I did and can create lists much better. Although it has things to select at the top, I found in my quick test that it was much easier to just write my own logic at the bottom to get more precise control of the list being generated.

[Shmizzle]

Wow Romlister looks like like a great program. I was hoping a utility like this existed!

Hey... anyone experiencing download difficulties?

Edit: Nevermind I got it... ...for some reason it didn't want to download but I tried it later and it worked...