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 also 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, and batch files for quickly copying all of the target ROMs to your machine. Open source and freeware.

• 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?}

Courtesy of turbo6, this is a listing of ROMs which support screen flipping between player 1 and player 2. Clones and hacks have been removed from these lists.

Vertical:

1942
800fath
99lstwar
alpine
amazon
amidar
arabian
argus
arkanoid
atlantis
bagman
battlane
battroad
bcruzm12
bigbucks
blastoff
blazer
blckgalb
blkhole
bombbee
bombjack
brubber
btime
bwcasino
carnvckt
centiped
circusc
ckong
commandu
congo
crazyblk
crush
cutieq
dangar
digdug
digdug2
dingo
dkong
dkong3
dkongjr
dogfight
dorodon
drmicro
drtopplj
dspirit
eagle
exctsccr
fhawk
firetrap
flyboyb
frogger
frontlin
futspy
galaga
galaga88
galaxian
gaplus
geebee
gorf
grindstm
gunsmoku
guzzler
gyrodine
gyrussce
helifire
hoccer
homo
hopprobo
hotshock
hustler
hwrace
invad2ct
invaddlx
invaders
invadpt2
jack
jjack
journey
jrpacman
jumpbug
jumpcoas
kangaroo
kchamp
kicka
kingofb
ladybug
lastmisn
lnc
lsasquad
m660
madgear
magspot2
mappy
mars
masterw
megaforc
mikie
mmonkey
mofflott
monsterb
monymony
moonal2
moonqsr
moonwar
motos
mrdo
mspacman
nibbler
noboranb
nunchaku
pacman
pacmania
pacnpal
pacplus
paddlema
pandoras
pbaction
pballoon
pengo
perfrmau
phelios
phoenixa
phozon
pinbo
pisces
plusalph
pooyans
popper
psychic5
qbert
quester
raflesia
rallybik
regulus
retofinv
roadf
rocktrv2
rocnrope
rollace
rompers
rugrats
saturn
sbagmans
sbasketb
scobra
scorpnmc
scrambls
sdtennis
senjyo
shaolins
shollow
sindbadm
skyfox
skylance
skylancr
skyshark
spacefb
spcforce
springer
sqixbl
srdarwin
srdmissn
srumbler
ssi
ssozumo
sspacatc
starjack
stinger
stratvox
sucasino
superpcm
swat
szaxxon
tactcian
tankbatt
teedoff
terracre
thunderl
tigerh
timepltc
todruaga
tokiob
tp84
travrusa
triplep
tron
tsamurai
turtles
tutankst
uniwars
upndown
valtric
vanguard
vastar
volfiedu
vulgus
wanted
warofbug
waterski
wiz
wmatch
wtennis
wwestern
xevious
xxmissio
yamagchi
youjyudn
zarzon
zaxxon
zigzag
zoar

Horizontal:

airwolf
baraduke
berabohm
berzerk
bionicc
bogeyman
bonzeadu
bouldash
brkthru
bullfgt
cavenger
ccastles
cclimber
cclimbr2
chameleo
champbas
chplftbl
chukatau
citycon
clshroad
cobracom
cop01
csilver
deadang
dowild
drgnbstr
elevator
empcity
espial
exprraid
exzisus
faceoff
flashgal
flstory
formatz
ghoulsu
ginganin
gngt
gradius
gsword
gtg2j
higemaru
holeland
imsorry
insectx
ironhors
jailbrek
junglek
karnov
kidniki
kungfum
kurikinu
ldrun
ldrun2
ldrun3jp
liquidku
lkage
madcrash
magmax
marineb
markham
marvland
megab
missile
mmaze
momoko
mpatrol
mrgoemon
myhero
ninjakun
nov2001u
nrallyx
oscar
pacland
parodius
peekaboo
pistoldm
pitfall2
pkunwar
ponpoko
popeye
puzznic
pyros
raiders5
rainbow
rallyx
rastanu
reikaids
renegade
rezon
robocopu
rthunder
rtype2
rushatck
rygar
sauro
scion
sectionz
seganinj
sfposeid
shadowld
shootout
shufshot
slyspy
snapjack
solarwar
solomon
spacedx
spelunk2
spelunkr
splatter
sprcros2
sshot139
swimmerb
syvalion
tapper
teddybb
terraf
tigeroad
tinstar
tokiu
triothej
triothep
troangel
trojan
vsyard
wbdeluxe
wboy
wfortune
willowje
wndrmomo
yiear