A techinical question

[Cicca]

Hi there...
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seems like nobody wants to waste time in the board....everybody's playing for T3....I guess....

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I have a tech question...hope someone could help....
I'm trying to keep a DB of the games supported by MAME....in the beginning was quite simple, but nowadays too many changes to do it manually (games added, removed, clones, long and short names modified....and so on)...

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Is there a way to extract (from where...!?! from the mame.exe itself, i guess) the whole list of games (short and long names, parent/child romsets, etc)...'?!? ...maybe with a batch, or whatever....

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Thanks for any hint.

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Ciao
Cicca

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[Chris]

to get long and short names:
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mame -listfull > full.txt
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to get clone information:
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mame -listclones > clones.txt
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you should be able to import those files into your database program.

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Good luck!

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Chris.

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[bubble]

Although Chris is right, there is another more extensive way to get
the info, though mame -listinfo. This outputs ALL information on the
games/drivers, including clones, working state, sound state, roms
needed, etc... The hard bit is that a parser would have to be used to
extract the info, but I've tried doing one (for about the same
purposes, creating a database of information, including roms needed,
so I can check the needed/changed files) and it's quite easy.

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