MAME Support Files (category, catver, series, version, etc.)
Home Page: https://www.progettosnaps.net/
The following files have been updated in this MAME cycle:
Home-page: https://www.progettosnaps.net/support/ Github : https://github.com/AntoPISA/MAME_SupportFiles
Hello
How exactly do you update the dat files when mame is updated: add missing games and correct renamed games?
Did you make a tool for that?
The file languages.ini has many duplicate ROMs, meaning a game is in 1 or more language filters.
Are some games in MAME having more then 1 language?
Hello @AntoPISA
Can we have the samples DAT in here please?
I want to add samples to MAME-AO be nice if I can grab from this repo and get to the SHA1s.
Cheers
Sam
MAME_SupportFiles/catver.ini/catlist.ini
Line 9211 in f8123a4
Is this correct? Is there a better way to categorize the King of the Monsters 1 & 2? They have been categorized in this way for years it appears.
I don't see what is "Multiplay" about these games? There are no mini-games or games-within-games to choose from. It's just the fighting monsters on multiple levels. Everyone single other "Multiplay" categorized rom is either a casino game (that has multiple subgames) or a sports game (which also has sub games).
Seems like a better category would be Fighter / Field ? Or Fighter / 2.5D ?
Thoughts on this?
Dear AntoPISA,
Find the link to a new MAME support website (at the bottom): MAMElicious: Home of MAME's INI Filter files
https://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=download
Feel free to make a link to my page on your website. All files are GNU GPLv3 and you are free to modify, share or copy them for any purpose
Regards
ROMMonkey
What is the goal of renameSET.ini?
It can't be opened by MAME since the format is not anything MAME can read.
What software can load this file or what is its goal?
The file series.ini has impossible duplicate ROMs. I use the word impossible since I strongly believe a game can only exist in ONE serie. (unless you proof I'm wrong)
The duplicates list is attached
An excerpt of the file:
[Cruis'n USA]
crusnexo
crusnexo
crusnexoa
crusnexoa
crusnexoaa
crusnexob
crusnexob
crusnexoc
crusnexoc
crusnexod
crusnusa
crusnusa11
crusnusa20
crusnusa21
crusnusa40
crusnusa41
crusnusa44
crusnwld
crusnwld
crusnwld13
crusnwld13
crusnwld17
crusnwld17
crusnwld19
crusnwld19
crusnwld20
crusnwld20
crusnwld23
crusnwld23
crusnwld24
crusnwld24
You can see many games are just written twice inside the same filter. Possible some games exist in more then one serie in the file, but I didn't check manually.
You can find all duplicates in the list reported by my database.
The bestgames.ini has 2 unused ROMs when you compare to MAME 0.262.
I compare this in my database of MAME 0.262 so it should be correct. I don't manually check this of course.
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Pretty sure that danceyes.zip should be marked mature. It's 2 clones are marked mature and listed in mature.ini but it is not.
Hello
I think your freeplay file is missing some games.
I generated mine and I have more games supporting free play.
The games not supporting free play are also missing. You could add them like I do in my file (for completeness of the file)
See file below.
Hello
Attached my [GAME INFORMATION] Unofficial.ini which contains bootleg/no bootleg and prototype/no prototype
I found a mismatch in counts with your bootleg file.
I"m interested to discuss who is right and what queries we use.
I check if a game's name has "bootleg" or if a publisher has "bootleg"
bootlegs.ini: 1770
[GAME INFORMATION] Unofficial.ini: filter Bootleg: 1856
You have too little games.
Hi
Attached a VERY SMALL selection of my MAME support files (I have many more, because I can export what I want based on queries), based on MAME 0.262 and history.xml 2.62a
It seems there is a bug in MAMEUI which prevents it from loading INI files with very long strings between "[" and "]" (other frontends load them fine). MAMEUI doesn't boot when using those INI files. Just remove the INI file from the "folders" folder of MAMEUI when it doesn't boot.
Do you know where to report this bug of MAMEUI? If you know, please do so (I'm not active on any forum and don't plan to do so) :-) You can show the developer of MAMEUI these INI files. He can find the ones that don't load.
It would be awesome if it's fixed, because then I can use all my support files in MAMEUI too.
They are sorted in 4 categories (and the file name starts with the category):
If you're interested I can make a PR. My files are automatically generated using my MAME SQLite database which contains MAME and Gaming History information.
You're also allowed to put them on your website.
PS: if you have questions about a specific INI file, just let me know!
Please don't close unresolved issues: #14
The explanation why duplicates should be removed is in this closed issue...
Hello
Could you add software list games to your files?
The biggest number of games are the software list games and I don't find any of those...
File gameinit.ini has following unused ROMs compared to MAME 0.262
eforesta
eforestb
jojobaj
jojobane
Again here, don't close unresolved issues: #6
freeplay.ini is not fixed.
How exactly do you update the INI files when a new mame is released?
I'm curious what'software you use.
It can't be done manually for so many games.
Are you using a SQL database for this? I would be interested to know your way of working
The dat format is replaced by the new xml format (see history.xml).
It's recommended to upgrade your files to this format so mame can read it faster using the new history.xml reading code in mame. It's a huge speed improvment!
Please upgrade as soon as possible.
The file languages.ini uses "Belgian" for "Dutch" language. "Belgian" doesn't exist as a language name since "Dutch" is the common language name for Belgium/The Netherlands
However the funny part is: a bit further in the file you DO use "Dutch" ...
So the game photoply2k2be should be in the "Dutch" filter and "Belgian" should be removed since it doesn't exist as a language.
The command.ini uses a "############" as comment line but this is certainly not official. By accident this works in MAME, but the official way of comments is a ";;" at the beginning and end of the line
https://easyemu.mameworld.info/mameguide/config_files/folderfiles.html
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