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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: Yodd on January 21, 2016, 08:46:33 AM

Title: Filtering certain machine types in Mame listing
Post by: Yodd on January 21, 2016, 08:46:33 AM

Hola folks!

New Attract-Mode user. Loving it.

So far I have had pretty good luck using the Filters to sort out the type of stuff I want to see.


However I would like to create a filter so that, for say, I only see CPS1 games. Or a filter for only Neo-Geo games or Cave and etc.


How would I go about that?

Title: Re: Filtering certain machine types in Mame listing
Post by: omegaman on January 21, 2016, 10:11:03 AM

For example... If you want a filter for cave games, you would simply create a filter named cave then set up a rule like this "Manufacture contains Cave". Now, just toggle to the newly created cave filter and now only the cave games should show up. 

Title: Re: Filtering certain machine types in Mame listing
Post by: Yodd on January 21, 2016, 10:26:29 AM

Quote from: omegaman on January 21, 2016, 10:11:03 AM

For example... If you want a filter for cave games, you would simply create a filter named cave then set up a rule like this "Manufacture contains Cave". Now, just toggle to the newly created cave filter and now only the cave games should show up.

Hmmm, but, if for example, I did a filter like that for Capcom, I would see all of their stuff.

I would kinda like to be able to break it down a little more than that for certain manufacturers.

Title: Re: Filtering certain machine types in Mame listing
Post by: omegaman on January 21, 2016, 03:39:36 PM

Here is a basic setup:

Global filter to weed out junk, optional.

rule    Year not_contains ?
rule    Category not_contains Casino|Tabletop|Electromechanical|Quiz|Trivia|Mahjong|Adult|Fruit|Mature|Puzzle 

A filter to display all games

filter               All

A clean filter to weed out the junk or just use in global as above. Here you can drill down even further with title not_contains command.

rule    Year not_contains ?
rule    Category not_contains Casino|Tabletop|Electromechanical|Quiz|Trivia|Mahjong|Adult|Fruit|Mature|Puzzle 

Filters for various manufactures etc... So, if I want to display games created only by capcom, I would select the Capcom filter.

filter               Capcom
      rule                 Manufacturer contains Capcom
   filter               Midway
      rule                 Manufacturer contains Midway
   filter               Sega
      rule                 Manufacturer contains Sega
   filter               SNK
      rule                 Manufacturer contains SNK

Title: Re: Filtering certain machine types in Mame listing
Post by: omegaman on January 21, 2016, 04:00:29 PM

Also see these post on using tags. Similar to using favorites.

http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=417.msg2906#msg2906