Mame Rom List Complete
Alacoque Whitchurch
I'm writing this tutorial to help people cutting down the Mame full set with only what their controls can play. The current Launchbox importer is pretty good if you have an Xbox or Playstation controller. If like me you have a 2 players arcade machine you're probably limited with 4 way / 8 way joysticks leaving the analog games unplayable. This method isn't an automated process and will take some time. This tutorial have 2 objective depending if you're an archiver and want all playable games according to your controls - or - if you just want the best playable games according to your controls. I'll also share my All Killer No Filler's bat files so you can reduce the total of games to around 800 titles as a great start.
I got through this process after fulling my 1tb SSD with the Mame set in my arcade cabinet. I had no space for newer games like Tetris Connected, MK10, etc. I also hated that the current Mame importer in LB left so many unplayable games with my controls. I've tried softwares like Rom Lister, Lightspeed Ultra-Fast Mame Importer Tool, Rom Center and CLRMamePro but they were either outdated, unsupported or irrelevant for what I wanted. I'm also from the school that everything should always stay updated. So yeah those outdated softwares weren't going to help.
As for Mame it would take too much time to update regularly unless we automate some parts of this tutorial. This tutorial could be done each year so you're always up to date with all your roms. Otherwise please upvote this request on bitbucket which would automate all this process in the Mame importer of Launchbox.
We'll import a non-merge full set with clones as additional versions. I highly suggest the World region to prioritize. You can check what you want to import or not (up to you). I highly suggest checking everything as it clears out the vast majority of the Mame junk. I suggest you uncheck Create Playlists as we'll cut down more games after that process and you should really learn to manually do your playlists, it's easy and it's a great thing to know.
UPDATE: Since my life has been busy and that I don't have the time to finalize the step #2 of this tutorial, I'll share with you what I think to be the best All Killer No Filler batch file (available at the bottom of this topic). This is the one I'm using for my customers and my own arcades and I hope you like it! Just copy the file mame-aknf.bat in your Mame romset folder (must be a non-merged romset) and open it. It'll create a folder called AKNF and all the roms will be there. The bat file won't move any roms so it doesn't break your source romset, it's safely copying the rom files in the newly created AKNF sub-folder. The batch file was made with Mame 0.238 so in many years it could become obselete, I believed at this time of writing this update (2022/05/27) it is safe to say that'll work great with newer version of Mame for years to come. If you still want to create your own All Killer No Filler romset you should be able to figure it out quite easily with all the information in this topic and my result mame-aknf batch file as an example.
!! CAUTION !! - If you stop this process this will corrupt the CHD file that is being move. You can prevent that by replacing /move by /copy in the .ps1 file but this will make the process take more time. If you did cancel the process and want to repair that CHD file reopen the torrent and it'll rebuild your set. If you've done that on an older set that isn't avilable anywhere else I guess it's time to update your set. You've been warned.
Note to save more space; you can Skip Clones entirely at step 1.2 but keep in mind that you'll have to manually exchange the roms if you have a 2 players maximum setup. If you've selected WOLRD by default most of the 3+ players games like TMNT, Simpsons, etc comes with the version with more players.
I highly suggest not using a full Mame set but create your own collection of roms. Consider using the All Killer No Filler list available here as a great start and from there you can add the missing games.
Hi there. Just found this guide and I had a couple concerns. The first is how to edit the text file for part 4.2. Is there a particular text editor you are using to make it easier that just tediously deleting each line of description and adding the apostrophes and commas? I am also noticing that my custom filter ends up containing many games that MAME marks as Overall Not Working. Shouldn't these be filtered out as well?
Unfortunately no. As of now it's done manually. We would need help from someone that could do a custom search and replace searches command that would automate that in an editor like Code. Unfortunately it's out of my knowledge. Hope someone will stumble across this guide and do this for us! This would help to update our Mame set more regularly.
I guess you're doing the part 1. of the guide since the part 2. isn't written yet. I'm not sure on the reliability of the LB Mame importer. Although if Mame says that a game isn't working it's more likely that it wont work. I would try few games and check if they work or not.
Tried using you PS and got an error using copy, I have never used it before but looking it up online, I don't think you need anything at the end?? not sure , but putting /z at the end should allow you to restart if it gets interrupted. I m running it now with the /z, seems like its working??
I'm not sure why it's no copying on your config but here it's working. If it have to retry there may be read or write errors somewhere. Thanks for the tip of adding "/z", this may help someone out there!
Hi @ThatDutchDude, simply because I haven't got the time to do it since a lot is happening in my life atm! I'll add my own All Killer No Filler batch file I made and use for the arcades I build for my customers. I think it pretty much have everything you need from a good cut down Mame set. Hope you like it and that it could help someone!
I suggest deleting everything and starting over following this tutorial. I don't see the point of a playlist. The whole point of Launchbox is to build your own box. If you don't know how things have been made you'll spend your life learning by troubleshooting other's people work and eventually end up following tutorials such as mine. Don't waste your time on the long run and invest it right away, it'll pay off later!
I like exploring others' curated lists, which is what i was trying to with AKNF. I've built many boxes for friends and family, and while it is enjoyable for me, it may not be for others...they may just be interested in the finished product. I have a large drive (drives, actually, for redundancy) dedicated to my personal build, so the use case of copying the roms to a different directory makes no sense to me. I'd rather retain the complete set and utilize a playlist.
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