Is it possible to generate game list with the wheel arts?

[gx1983]

mame rom set contains too many roms. A lot them are not working.
The game list generated by Attract mode has too many items.
Is it possible to generate the list from the wheel art or snapshots? 
This can help to remove the not working games and possibly bios.

Thank you very much !

[progets]

Yes, you can but there are better options. To do as you're suggesting you can modify your mame emulator.cfg to temporarily point the rom path to the wheel art folder and change your extensions to be .png;.jpeg. Build your romlist and then switch the file back to the original settings.

Configure-->Emulators-->MAME

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rompath              /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/wheel
romext               .png;jpeg


Your best option is to use a program like romlister to create the file you really want. https://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/

You can also look at a files made by members on the forum like this one. http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=1060.0

You can use the the "edit game" option to hide games you don't want to see. Configure-->Controls-->Edit Game = some-button. Then you can hightlight a game and press some-button to edit the game settings.

You can use global filters or regular filters to hide most of the bs. Something like this.

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filter               "Clean List"
rule                 Title not_contains bootleg|prototype
rule                 Year not_contains ?
rule                 Manufacturer not_contains bootleg
rule                 Category not_contains Mature|Casino|Mahjong|Multiplay|Quiz|Rhythm
rule                 Players contains 1|2|3|4
rule                 Control contains joystick
rule                 Control contains 2-way|4-way|8-way
rule                 Status equals good|imperfect
rule                 DisplayCount equals 1


[gx1983]

That is really helpful.

Thank you very much !