Cutting down MAME

[tazfaedodge]

I have a full ROM set for MAME 0.151, as you know it is a very big file full of good games and a LOT of crap that I have no use for like bandits and these silly cut out the naked woman games.

I know that I can use romlister to make a list file for use with whatever frontend I pick, but is there a way to cut out all these games completely from the folder? That way if I ever build that Pi system I keep promising my nephew I could have a smaller MAME file to put on a SD card without downloading each game one at a time.

Nick

 

[joe34]

you can use romlister to make a batch file which you can then run in your roms folder and it will delete the roms you dont want (that ones which u have chosen and added to the batch file list)

romlister should let you add groups of games to the list to be deleted quickly and easy. by selecting categories such as adult games or gambling/fruit machine games etc

this link below might be helpful (i cant view it at the moment but give it a try yourself)

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/RL_tutorial_batchFiles

 

[RygarR]

Romlister and the like are great at cutting out swathes of crud. But with filtering systems it's also possible to delete games you want to keep because, eg. the only working version is a bootleg, and you've told it to kill all bootlegs. I would suggest you keep a backup folder with all ROMS just in case, and create a new personalised ROM folder. Keep it empty to begin with. Then get a piece of paper and a pen, write down the names of the games you actually want to play, and then copy the relevant zip files to the new folder ticking them off on the list as you go. At most you'll be starting with a couple of hundred. After a while, you probably won't move outside a few dozen classics. But if you hear about a 'new' game later, you can just copy it in...