Simple Arcade Multifilter - app for MAME and FB Alpha sets (Get rid of Adult and Mahjong games!)

[sirhenrythe5th]

@Clyde thank you very much for your words, that makes sense indeed 👍

What i just was thinking....IF i would download a full rom-set, there would be hundreds of other roms that i would delete.
Chesscomputers, Homecomputers, Pinball Roms (VPinMAME is of course awesome btw 😊), but not (all) Mahjongs and Adult Games.

I also have only 666 action orientated favourites up and running in Kiosk-Mode (w/ NEOGEO), all the Mahjongs only appear in Full Mode (1134 Roms)

[Clyde]

@sirhenrythe5th My pleasure. :) About your reflections about Mahjong and adult games, I think that most Retropie users are "normal" retro gamers who prefer action oriented games over turn based ones. Also, many will have kids or are kids themselves. That may explain why board games – Mahjong being one of the most prominent ones – and adult games tend to be mentioned as examples to filter out.

Of course I don't know that for sure, I'm just making a (hopefully halfway educated) guess. :)

[e4rthdog]

Is there any option to automatically create the folder structure according to the categories you select?

If i understood correctly, if i need to create a separate folder for each category i need to see to the GUI, i need to do it separately per category.

[emperorgr]

dear @MARKWKIDD

thanks for your wonderful utility...however i have some requests and perhaps notices that will my life and hopefully other users too easier...

1. After 1.12 version the option to NOT copy clones has been removed..why? this is useful
2. You can make an automate process processing an entire collection to folders for each rom category for users to analyze the romset and decide which roms they need....i make this manually and take sometime
3. Perhaps make an option to remember last time paths so we dont have to type them again and again.
4. keep working on the project maybe? haha

thanks again for your effort!!!

[neurocrash]

@markwkidd Hi, is there any documentation? I do not know the meaning of the following options, but am hoping to prevent having 7 copies of some roms like 720.

Exclude BIOS sets
Exclude Device sets
Exclude Mechanical sets

Thanks!

[YFZdude]

@neurocrash

Exclude BIOS sets

Some romsets have BIOS files separated. In a good non-merged set, the BIOS files needed should be in the zip with the rom that uses them so there is no need to keep a separate BIOS set.

Exclude Device sets

Note sure about this one.

Exclude Mechanical sets

This would toss out mechanical games like actual pinball machines, slots, etc. Devices that won't run properly in emulation because there isn't really hardware attached.

[Clyde]

@YFZdude said in Simple Arcade Multifilter - app for MAME and FB Alpha sets (Get rid of Adult and Mahjong games!):

@neurocrash

Exclude Device sets

Note sure about this one.

They are similar to BIOS sets in that they're shared parts necessary for some roms.

See https://docs.mamedev.org/usingmame/aboutromsets.html for more about the different kinds of sets.

[YFZdude]

@Clyde
Yes that link is helpful. I think what has helped me is that I used a non-merged romset. That way when I add them to RetroPie I don't see all the clones and extra junk in the list once I have filtered out the unwanted .zip files.

[publicENEMY]

Hi. Thanks for a great app like Simple Arcade Multifilter.
I would like to suggest, can we have checkboxes in the selection? This would make it easier to select and choose. Also, can we have like a preview of what file will be copied? What game (name) will be copied? Also, realtime preview where we can see a list of all roms. Selected roms will be highlighed and unselected roms will not be highligted.

Anyway. Really good app. Thanks.

[Clyde]

@publicENEMY There was a test build that let you select multiple entries with Ctrl-A, Ctrl-Click, and Shift-Click, but alas, the download link doesn't work anymore.

@markwkidd Maybe you could put it up again somewhere? I'm still using it and I find its selection controls very convenient. Alternatively, I could host it in my own Github repo with your permission. At the moment, only my local storage and its backups prevent this version from vanishing into oblivion …

(Oh, I just noticed that I already asked you this nine months ago. I don't want to bug you, just tell me to shut up about it and I will. 🤐 )

edit: According to his profile, markwkidds last login happened in May, 2019. So maybe we lost him entirely. 😟