Complete list of mame games

[the_ghost]

wassup guys.
ok so I downloaded a dvd image (nrg) that is exactly 4.35GB it was named
"mame0.85 1/7" (sort of like what the person in this thread (http://forums.emulator-zone.com/showthread.php?t=3385) Downloaded, exept hers has a "4/7" at the end not "1/7) mame did not come on the image, it came with about 2000+ roms
on it (but no MAME). all the roms are zipped and named so mame can recognize'em. Now I dont know what the short names mean (i.e- alpham2.zip) I dont want have to play all the games through to find which ones I want to keep.
I just want to look at a list of roms that have both the real name and the "MAME" name.

does such a thing exist?

sorry if this has been asked before/stupid question.

[Zach]

Use a version of MAME that has a front end.

Also look into CLR Mame Pro, a Rom Manager that will build a list of all the games you do have from the MAME executable (the console one without a GUI )

[the_ghost]

thanks but I'm kinda having the same problem that this guy is having (http://forums.emulator-zone.com/showthread.php?t=3439)
I didnt rename the roms and mame still doesn't recognize them.
I'm using mame32 btw but I guess I'm gonna have search through the list of 5000+ roms manualy

[hagbard]

Type either on command line (start->execute->cmd) or in a batch file. I'm taking mame.exe as the excutable, change it acordly:



mame -listfull > gamelist.txt


The generated gamelist.txt will be like this:


Name: Description:
puckman "PuckMan (Japan set 1, Probably Bootleg)"
puckmana "PuckMan (Japan set 2)"
puckmanf "PuckMan (Japan set 1 with speedup hack)"
puckmanh "Puckman (Falcom?)"
pacman "Pac-Man (Midway)"
pacmanf "Pac-Man (Midway, with speedup hack)"
puckmod "PuckMan (Japan set 3)"
...


There are much more gamelist options, just check mame docs folder "windows.txt" ;)

[the_ghost]

ok thanks Hagbard

now I can use the search feature in notepad to find my games

[the_ghost]

[sorry for the Double post]

geez, I wasted almost a day downloading that file [4+GB] and The only good games that I got out of it were the 1942 and 19xx series (you know, the airplane game) and crusin' USA/world, and a few other games, so I had to throw out about 2,000 rom sets. But I like those airplane games(classics)
[EDIT}
Oh and I got Mame32 to finally recognize all of my roms (all I had to do was delete the old Mame32 and re-download it then Install It back to the same place I had
it)

[cibomatto2002]

If you want to know what the names are and see if they will work with mame try here http://www.romcenter.com/ make sure you download the mame dat file it only works with mame 97 or mame 32.97

[hagbard]

RomCenter you might create your Mame dats from scratch, you only need the Mame version you prefer. Also work with clrMamePro (http://www.clrmame.com/)

Btw, the RomCenter web has links to Roms site, so better don't post it here