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ruthlessrabbid:
Hi all,

I've got attract mode up and running and am now working on adding individual games and making sure they all work with what I've got. Something that has been bugging me though is the lack of information that I have for each specific game - I want to be able to see the genre, number of players, developer, etc for my systems so I can create filters and make finding a game a lot easier.

in reading other posts there's files for mame like 'catver.ini', 'nplayers.ini' and so forth. I wasn't sure if there was something that existed for other consoles like the Sega Dreamcast, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. I know that these consoles have XML files with database information on the game library, but I wasn't sure if this was something that could be included as an 'additional import file' in attract mode. Thanks!

Mark Norville:
I experimented with this a while back.

I was adding these titles to the catver.ini by hand, but the process will take too long. I believed that it worked, but has been a while since I done that and it was on my test build that I started months ago when I first started using AM,

Hopefully Progets or someone else will be able to advise you as well.

Ah I remembered what I was doing.

I added the games to catver.ini and then I was using the additional info to point to the catver.ini

So Dreamcast games to the Catver.ini and then importing that to the dreamcast

I think that actually worked.

Regards

Mark

progets:
In an ideal world you have entire current mame sets (that contain most consoles too). You can use the "listxml" or "listsoftware" with the proper "System Identifier" and "Additional Import Files" to point to your catver.ini and players.ini files. http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2290.msg15513#msg15513 & http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2307.msg15637#msg15637

If this isn't the case, you can import most xml files into romlists from the command line. If the xml contains the all the information, you get it in your romlists. If you are importing complete xml files but don't have all the roms, you can create a rule to only show the roms in the romlist that you actually have. http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2605.msg17810#msg17810

Lastly, you can use the standard builtin method that uses thegamesdb.net. Set AM to use thegamesdb.net and make sure you set the "System Identifier" to match the name of the system exactly as thegamesdb.net names them. http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2605.msg17821#msg17821

ruthlessrabbid:
Hi Progets. sorry for the late reply - you've provided the exact resources that I was looking for! Thank you so much for helping out.

ruthlessrabbid:
Hi Progets; if I'm in a Windows environment, is it possible to use command line to import an XML file and build the romlist? I know Windows is DOS based so the commands might be different but I'm not sure if I'm going to be unable to import the lists entirely.

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