A techinical question

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Hi there...

seems like nobody wants to waste time in the board....everybody's playing for T3....I guess....

I have a tech question...hope someone could help.... I'm trying to keep a DB of the games supported by MAME....in the beginning was quite simple, but nowadays too many changes to do it manually (games added, removed, clones, long and short names modified....and so on)...

Is there a way to extract (from where...!?! from the mame.exe itself, i guess) the whole list of games (short and long names, parent/child romsets, etc)...'?!? ...maybe with a batch, or whatever....

Thanks for any hint.

Ciao Cicca

-- Cicca (cicca@writeme.com), February 17, 2000

Answers

to get long and short names:
mame -listfull > full.txt
to get clone information:
mame -listclones > clones.txt
you should be able to import those files into your database program.

Good luck!

Chris.

-- Chris (chr1s@mail.com), February 17, 2000.


Although Chris is right, there is another more extensive way to get the info, though mame -listinfo. This outputs ALL information on the games/drivers, including clones, working state, sound state, roms needed, etc... The hard bit is that a parser would have to be used to extract the info, but I've tried doing one (for about the same purposes, creating a database of information, including roms needed, so I can check the needed/changed files) and it's quite easy.

-- bubble (bubble@mail.pt), February 18, 2000.

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