Author Topic: Merged vs Split Romset and AttractMode  (Read 3143 times)

keilmillerjr

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Merged vs Split Romset and AttractMode
« on: January 24, 2018, 05:23:48 PM »
I have a merged romset. It saves space, and makes sense. My arcade machine is almost completely set up. There are child roms that I want to play instead of the parent rom, such as Sunset Riders where you can not pick any character in the 4 player version so it does not make sense on a 2 player cabinet.

How can I have attract mode or mame pick the correct version for specific games?

The only way I see is to manually edit the rom name field in the romlist.txt file.

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Re: Merged vs Split Romset and AttractMode
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2018, 06:39:02 PM »
does not answer your Q: but yaa i have the same problem...

i have a couple back up "romlist.txt file" for like shumps, hack and slash, ext..
that took some time to edit...so any way

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Re: Merged vs Split Romset and AttractMode
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2018, 06:54:42 PM »
I could rebuild the romset…

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Re: Merged vs Split Romset and AttractMode
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2018, 08:44:35 PM »
does not answer your Q: but yaa i have the same problem...

i have a couple back up "romlist.txt file" for like shumps, hack and slash, ext..
that took some time to edit...so any way

1up... :o

Answer found in this thread! Woohoo!

http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=161.0

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Re: Merged vs Split Romset and AttractMode
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2018, 02:24:14 AM »
I manually edited the romlist to add 2p games like sunset riders, tmnt, Simpsons etc