Difference between revisions of "RL tutorial merge"
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| − | 2) If you have not already done so, download controls.xml from [http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/controls_dat.php controls.dat website] Be sure to get the XML version, not the .dat version. | + | 2) If you have not already done so, download controls.xml from [http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/controls_dat.php controls.dat website] Be sure to get the XML version, not the .dat version. If the site is down, [http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/controls.zip here ] is a copy of version 111.2: |
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Point the Controls.xml file browser to this file. | Point the Controls.xml file browser to this file. | ||
''Controls.dat is out of date too. If anyone knows of a more up to date source, please edit this section. | ''Controls.dat is out of date too. If anyone knows of a more up to date source, please edit this section. | ||
Revision as of 10:29, 12 March 2008
Because no one single source out there adequately describes all the information about all the possible games that MAME will play, we need to combine all a game's details from 3 separate files into 1 master file so ROMLister can get the best results for your searches.
When you first launch ROMLister or whenever you press the settings button from within the main screen, this is the dialog you will see.
The lower half of this window is the merge tool. The following steps will create a merged file:
1) Click on the MAME ListXML browse button. MAME.exe has a feature which generates a big text file which has descriptions of all the ROMs it supports. (We'll call the text file that MAME creates "listXML.xml" from here onward)
When you hit the browse button, it will ask you to select MAME.exe, and then ROMLister will have MAME create the listXML.xml file. This process takes upwards of a minute, and when MAME is finished, the path and filename will show up in the dialog.
If you have already created the listXML.xml file from other applications (some front ends use it) you can change the file type in the open browser to xml files and just point ROMLister to the listXML file instead of having MAME generate it for you.
2) If you have not already done so, download controls.xml from controls.dat website Be sure to get the XML version, not the .dat version. If the site is down, here is a copy of version 111.2:
Point the Controls.xml file browser to this file. Controls.dat is out of date too. If anyone knows of a more up to date source, please edit this section.
3) If you have not already done so, download catver.ini. The official source for catver is: http://www.mameworld.net/catlist, however the file has not been updated in a couple years now. I strongly suggest using this one instead: http://www.progettoemma.net
Point the file browser to this catver.ini file.
4) Click the Merge! button. ROMLister will pop up another dialog asking you what to call this new, merged file it's about to create. Let's call it merged.xml.
When ROMLister is finished merging, the path+filename of the final, merged file appears in the topmost Input XML file window. This is the input file that ROMLister will use from now on, and this file contains the best of all the information from the 3 files, and will greatly improve the amount of searchable items you can filter ROMs on.
5) Click the Set button and you'll go to the main ROMLister screen.
Creating a merged file is a one time process. ROMLister will remember the merged file next time you launch the application and take you straight to the main screen.
