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[starbuck]

Morning Adultry,
Luv you app.

What I want to do with youe app is:

Right now I Iet GameEx make my map file for the complete rom set, by running the roms one time thru Clrmame pro. This gives me a complete list of all the games available for any given system. I then point GameEx at that map file. I then, pick only a handful of favorite games I want on my cab. These games I want colored different then the rest of the set. This way when someone plays my cab, the see a complete list of all the games ever made for that systerm. When combined with the media from Emumovies they see all the great videos, boxes etc for all the different games. The colored names are the only ones available for play. If they see a preview for a game they want to play that is not available, I can easily add it to the cab.

Is there a way that your great utility will allow me to creat import that set and by right clicking a row change ther name to a color of my choice. Or is there an easier way for me to do this.

Thanks for yoor help.

[Adultery]

Simple really.

If you have a color in mind for all the games you want to keep, all you need to do is double click that game's color column and type the 5-letter hex code in the color column. There's a right click option to update the color cell also.

What I would do is color the ones you want to keep (the list is smaller right?) and then do a column sort so you can go through and add the 2nd color to the remaining roms.

[starbuck]

I would use the standard color for all the games and then color the games that are available a neon green. I currently am running 200 plus systems in Game EX and only have 5 to 10 games on each system.

This worked. But interesting enough. When you open the system on GameEx, the three games that are colored appear at the top of the list regardless of the alpha spelling. When you play a game and come back to the list, the color is gone and the games are make in the list alpha.

When you close GameEx and reopen the games are colored again and back at the top of the list

[Adultery]

That sounds like a GameEx bug.

Like it's taking the top MAP line's color codes and then doing its own sorting regardless of the order of the MAP file, where it should take the color tag with it when it sorts the list.

Too bad, I figured the MAP file would determine the order and the GameEx alpha sorting wouldn't be happening. I can see why it is this way but I thought it would be cool to let the MAP author determine the order.

[Draco1962]

@Adultery - Tom recently made changes to the sort order in the latest version. I am not sure if that has an impact or not, but definitely get with him to see if he can provide you with any useful information to make it work or, if a bug, can get it fixed in the next release.

[Adultery]

I think what I want is more of a feature request, but I should probably report the bug also.

[Adultery]

By the way... 1.0.1 is out which fixes a few minor bugs. If you allow it to auto-update at launch it fixes a bug to manual update checking as well. The updater software has a full changelog.
I forgot to post the offline installer here so if you don't want to use the updater you'll have to wait until I post it or grab the updated version from Emumovies.

[starbuck]

I sure Tom can fix this. I understand why its sorting them as it does. Being at the top is ok, but would be way cooler if the user had to scroll thru the list and media to see what games are available for any given system. Otherwise its a waste of good media from Emumovies.

Not sure why when you exit a game and come back to the list, the colors are gone. I beleive Gameex is not reading the colors of the map file when it returns from a game. It is reading the map file cause all the games are there

Would it be possible for Map File Maker to make a map file from a Clrmamepro dat file. Then my cab would have every game listed even the ones I'm missing.

[Adultery]

Yeah its possible, but I'd have to investigate further. You have a big dat I can look at? Like Snes or nes? Ill have a look at it.

[starbuck]

Here they be.

The first 2 are Clrmamepro dat files.

The third are Hyperspin dat and xml files

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