Lists

Lists

Once you get your arcade machine operational, you will more than likely be interested in knowing (and playing) all the ROMs that will run on your particular hardware setup. There are a number of criteria involved for determining such lists: monitor orientation, types of controls, number of buttons, screen resolution, cocktail/upright, etc. Luckily a few tools were developed to assist in creating lists:

• ROMLister

A windows GUI based application that uses MAME's xml output file or controls.xml to allow you to create custom filtered lists of games based on your input criteria. (# of buttons, joystick type, monitor orientation, etc) The program can create numerous output files, including XML, CSV, MaLa gamelists, Atomic FE lists, and even batch files for quickly copying all of the target ROMs to your machine. Open source and freeware. Here are a number of tutorials on using ROMLister.

• ListGen

This utility, written by Buddabing, uses a free SQL engine (SQLite) to create an internal table from MAME's -listxml output that can be used to generate MAMEWah game lists. It also can be used to generate batch files for Buddabing's MAME Movie Maker. ListGen is a fast, open source way to filter game lists.

Even with these tools, there are still ROMs which may work on your machine, yet not show up in the output of the above mentioned tools. This is because the description of a particular ROM inside MAME's xml output does not adequately describe all of the possible configurations of a particular game. One example is the game Blast Off. MAME's description and controls.dat's description is that the game does not support cocktail mode. However, inside the game's service mode screens, there are options to enable screen flipping mode between player 1 and player 2. (thanks to turbo6 for discovering this) {screenshots here?}

The following lists are of titles which support screen flipping between player 1 and player 2. Clones have been removed from these lists.

Vertical, MAME 0.122

puckman
crush
pacplus
eyes
mspacman
alibaba
pengo
jrpacman
galaxian
uniwars
redufo
zigzag
jumpbug
azurian
mooncrst
checkman
blkhole
kingball
4in1
scramble
atlantis
theend
mars
devilfsh
cavelon
scobra
armorcar
moonwar
tazmania
anteater
hustler
frogger
amidar
ckong
terracre
amazon
dangar
armedf
phoenix
pleiads
naughtyb
trvgns
geebee
tankbatt
warpwarp
jungler
locomotn
commsega
galaga
digdug
xevious
superpac
mappy
digdug2
gaplus
cosmicg
cosmica
panic
zerohour
magspot
devzone
nomnlnd
cheekyms
ladybug
mrdo
docastle
sheriff
radarscp
dkong
dkongjr
dkong3
bowler
invaders
invadpt2
invrvnge
galxwars
lrescue
lupin3
polaris
ballbomb
gorf
solarfox
shollow
tron
journey
olibochu
qbert
sqbert
alpine
frontlin
bioatack
fgoal
sbowling
bking
bking2
bking3
vsgongf
bigevglf
halleys
sqix
arknoid2
kageki
ashura
tigerh
fshark
1942
commando
gunsmoke
srumbler
capbowl
stratab
hstennis
astrob
005
monsterb
spaceod
zaxxon
szaxxon
futspy
congo
starjack
regulus
upndown
angelkds
lnc
zoar
btime
wtennis
brubber
astrof
tomahawk
kchamp
firetrap
starforc
baluba
bombjack
pbaction
tutankhm
pooyan
timeplt
megazone
pandoras
gyruss
rocnrope
circusc
roadf
kicker
contra
mx5000
battlnts
bladestl
ajax
tempest
centiped
satansat
vanguard
fantasy
nibbler
joyfulr
aso
tnk3
chopper
matmania
maniach
battlane
kaos
monymony
zzyzzyxx
roundup
thepit
bagman
sbagman
exerion
argus
bcruzm12
zodiack
moguchan
twineagl
usclssic
speakres
kangaroo
arabian
looping
blueprnt
nyny
spiders
popper
spacefb
kingofb
enigma2

Horizontal: MAME 0.122

ponpoko
stratgyx
cclimber
swimmer
radrad
tubep
terraf
cclimbr2
rallyx
bosco
pacland
metrocrs
rthunder
snapjack
cavenger
dorunrun
dowild
popeye
spacezap
robby
profpac
kroozr
domino
wacko
tapper
timber
gridlee
mpatrol
10yard
kungfum
ldrun
vigilant
rtype
reactor
junglek
elevator
tinstar
lkage
rastan
rainbow
kurikint
cameltry
zerowing
airwolf
gng
bionicc
blktiger
tigeroad
f1dream
ghouls
strider
willow
wfortune
gtg2
wcbowl
shufshot
wcbowldx
gt97
gt98
gt99
gt2k
spacfury
elim2
startrek
pitfall2
chplft
4dwarrio
wboy
wbml
shinobi
aurail
brkthru
shootout
actfancr
karnov
robocop
slyspy
bouldash
trackfld
hyperspt
yiear
gberet
jailbrek
combasc
hcastle
88games
salamand
blkpnthr
missile
liberatr
ccastles
athena
champbas
goldmedl
bogeyman
renegade
xsleena
ddragon
ddragon2
berzerk
frenzy
killcom
challeng
nova2001
robokid
trog
hiimpact
shimpact
deadang
toki
formatz
citycon
avspirit
gtmr
srmp2
srmp3
mjyuugi
ponchin
rranger
piratetr
thief
natodef
battlex
bankp
rmhaihai
rmhaijin
rmhaisei
themj
omegrace
mole
gt103
gt5
crgolf

The following is a list of games that are simultaneous multi-player, and work on cocktail machines regardless of screen orientation. Most of these will require joystick remapping to properly orient the player's controls.

Gauntlet
Space Duel
Warlords
Armor attack
Blades of steel
Demolition derby
Eliminator 
Hot shots tennis
Space duel
Space invaders II
Tekhan world cup
Tetris (cocktail)
Atari football
Bad Lands
Ironman Stewart's Super Off Road (+ Track Pack)
Super Sprint
Hot Rod
Embargo
Alien Syndrome
Wizard of Wor
Hat Trick Hockey
Asylum (prototype)