Favorites Wheel

[dedos]

Hello everyone,

Ok, I know this has been pounded over and over again but here's my idea:

I want to add a Favorites wheel for mame in the main wheel since we can not do a sub wheel. I want to call it after my Wife's name since its for her.

I understand i have to create a new XML file with the games I want and create a new folder structure as if I was creating it for a new emulator.

so here are my questions:

1. Is this really the right way to do it?

2. What's the easiest way to pick games for favorites other than deleting them from the XML file (I know there is HyperList, but still seems to generate many as per genre's)

[ the following questions are more geared towards Hyperlist]

3. Is there a way I can just pick a genre and select games from a list? and continue to remove/select then create the xml file?

4. (now bare with me) I wonder if we can create a "wife/girlfriend" genre in hyperlist to make this task alot easier!! :stupid:

thanks for you patience guys,

Dedos

[SophT]

strictly using mame you can download romlister and do what you're requesting, not supported for consoles though.

[dedos]

thanks Sopht, im dling it now. Is this the right way to create a favorites wheel?

[BadBoyBill]

You can make a favorites.xml and stick it in your Databases/MAME folder and it will show up in your genre menu. This will create a subwheel in MAME

[dedos]

I'll try this tonight. Thanks BBB.

I'm finding myself spending too much time on adding emulators rather than concentrating on 1 and finishing it. I have people coming over this weekend so I NEED to finish atleast MAME.

Thanks for everyone's help.

[Scat Rabies]

dedos,did you ever figure this one out? I'd love to add a favourites wheel to get to the ones i use regularly !

[SophT]

it's not a favorites wheel, it's a favorites list. create a new xml using hyperion, or romlister save it as 'favorites.xml' in your /databases/mame/ folder.

when you enter hyperspin your default list will load 'mame.xml', hit the genre key 'G' by default, and a list will drop down that says:

default
favorites

select favorites and that list will load in place of the 'default' list - same wheel, different list.

[stovies]

I'm struggling to get the genre list in MAME to offer more than 6 options - despite many more existing in my MAME database folder. Plus the 6 which do show are a random selection i.e. not the first 6 alphabetically. What am I doing wrong? I've searched the forum, faq and wiki and it would appear there is no limit to how many xml lists you can have in the database folders.

Cheers

Stovies

[SophT]

it's a known bug. hopefully it'll be fixed in the next release.

[stovies]

Cheers :) Nice to know its not just me being stupid! Any ideas when BBB is planning an update? Before Christmas would be sweet.