Gamelist of working MAME roms?

[JamesRIves]

Probably a long shot, but has anyone taken the time to sort through MAME roms that work and those that don't work on the Pi? Alternatively, does anyone have a fairly extensive gamelist consisting only of roms that actually work? If you have either, would you be willing to provide your attract mode gamelist.xml for your MAME setup? To clarify - I'm not asking for ROMS -- merely trying to save time and come up with a list of MAME games that actually work given the Raspberry pi's processor limitations.

Thanks!

Jim

[dankcushions]

@jamesrives pretty much all roms of each mame emulator's romsets work on the pi3. the ones marked in the datfile as 'non working' can easily be removed via romlister, if that's what you mean? beyond that, almost everything will work

[JamesRIves]

To clarify -- I meant to say "work and is actually playable." For example, Die Hard - the Arcade Game will work (it will load and accept commands), but the Pi isn't really powerful enough to emulate the game in manner whereby its playable. In my experience, there are quite a few games that can't be played because of the Pi's processor limitations.

Thanks,

Jim

[dankcushions]

@jamesrives to get answers for that needs every single game in every single mame emulator to be tested on every single pi model :) we have started that via the compatibility lists, but even after several years of open contributions they aren't complete. plus, in my experience many contributors do not fully understand mame so will mark a game as 'non working' because they have used the wrong romset or something like that.

thinking about it, it would be possible to set up some sort of bulk automated testing of performance via retroarch logs (they measure the framerate) and a script, if anyone cared to.

[obsidianspider]

You could use the list we have for MAME ROW as a starting point.

[JamesRIves]

Thanks, obsidianspider and dankcushions... that is helpful info. I appreciate it.

Jim