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General / Re: MAME catver.ini - List of all Categories in the file?

« on: July 08, 2020, 07:05:15 AM »

Thanks  zpaolo11x!

I really wish this file was included in the bundle at http://www.progettosnaps.net/catver/ in the future. I think more people than us two would have use for that. 

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General / MAME catver.ini - List of all Categories in the file?

« on: July 08, 2020, 02:52:29 AM »

So, I've found, what I think is the latest public catver.ini file here (for MAME version 0.221 so far. Haven't found any for 0.222):
http://www.progettosnaps.net/catver/

And now I want to do some filtering in Attract Mode so I looked around and found some good example filters.
So I can filter up the roms in Maze games, Driving games etc.. . . Great! 

My problem: How do I know what other categories I can filter on?
For example; is there a Category for "Games including horses"? How do I find out? I can open up the file in an editor and search for horses and hope for good luck. But maybe the category is called Equestrian instead? I'm not sure what to search for.

So, how do I know what different categories there is in the catver.ini file?
I've searched and searched, and maybe just my google-mojo is bad  , but I can't find a list of what categories there are in catver.ini.

The closest to a solution I've found is to instead look in the catlist.ini file included in the above linked file.
In that file the categories have their own rows, and perhaps I can do some scripting to sort out just the lines starting with "[" to get something resembling a list of categories.
But then I have to learn to do scripting to edit text-files. 

Can anybody help me where to find this information?

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General / Re: Why is Roms-path needed in both Attract-Mode and Emulator settings?

« on: July 08, 2020, 02:39:40 AM »

Thanks for the answers! 
But also. . . sigh. . .  Why is MAME different? 

I looked at the last_run.log and it had it's entry like this:
*** Running: mame64.exe robotron
Is there any good reason for Attract Mode not being able to just send the rompath along when launching the game and thus giving the below example line in the log instead?
*** Running: mame64.exe -rompath C:\Roms\Arcade\MAME_0.222\ robotron
(Where I would have set rompath in Attract Mode = C:\Roms\Arcade\MAME_0.222 and NOT having edited/changed the default roms path of the MAME distribution.)

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General / Why is Roms-path needed in both Attract-Mode and Emulator settings?

« on: July 04, 2020, 09:39:47 AM »

So I've started to dabble in setting up emulators and Attract Mode. First of is M.A.M.E.
I got things to work with the last version of MAME 0.221, but then installed the new version 0.222 and suddenly I couldn't start my games anymore.

After a bit of troubleshooting i realized it was due to my new install olf MAME 0.222 didn't have the mame.ini where I point out my special path to my roms (instead of just the default [workingdir]\roms folder MAME has).
So now I got it working.

What I don't understand is why I had to do that change in mame.ini and not just in Attract Mode under the Emulators Roms-setting?
If Attract Mode doesn't parse along the rom-path to MAME, so it can find the ROMs to run. . . then why even bother to set a Roms-path in Attract Mode? What does that setting do?

TLDR;
What is the Roms-path setting in Attract Mode for? (since it obviously isn't parsing it along to MAME and MAME instead reads ROMS from only paths in mame.ini)