GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 710222
Hide bios in game list
Last modified: 2015-09-14 02:03:58 UTC
Hi, this is a improvement idea for GNOME Video Arcade. As far as I know, MAME not to hide games within their list (bios and roms, are shown as games). However, many MAME frontend, allow alternative ways to show listings not including bios. One way is to create a new location for the bios (inside the folder "roms" or other location) and GVA, show only the games folder "roms" (When configuring MAME indicated both locations for "roms "and thus find when needed. Another way could be that GVA would create one or more custom lists games (not equal to "favorites"), so for example, a user could create a list that contains only games that work and make some of those games as favorites. Thanks
Hello again. With a little more knowledge I can understand that this can be tricky, but is it possible to hide ROM on the list of games available ?. With this the user choose to hide bios or games from the general list. Thank you
Can you give me a few examples of BIOS names that are shown as games? GNOME Video Arcade is programmed to filter out BIOS entries from the game list, but it depends on the output of "mame -listxml" to distinguish a game from a BIOS. This is explicitly stated in the XML data through the "isbios" attribute (which defaults to "no" if absent). For example: <game name="atarisy1" sourcefile="atarisy1.c" isbios="yes"> <description>Atari System 1 BIOS</description> ... </game> But this of course assumes the XML data is correct. If you can give me a few examples, that would help me determine whether the XML data has errors or if there's a bug in the application.
(In reply to Matthew Barnes from comment #2) > Can you give me a few examples of BIOS names that are shown as games? > I do not understand very well that I listed. Attached is a link to my folder where I have my bios and roms. Attached only nine games (ROMs) and the rest are bios (65 files). Bios files correspond to more used bios downloaded from a specialized web, however, the games list showing GVA is 161 (attached screenshot). I have noticed that some correspond to mini games or boards and counters for other arcades. https://mega.nz/#F!ZA8AzJBT!VOWC34ArICguspzob8QDbw I will maintain the link only for 48 hours for security. I hope to be useful. Cheers
Got the files, thanks!
Seems there's some new XML attributes that GVA wasn't filtering on. In addition to "isbios", there's now "isdevice" and "ismechanical". Your game list should be cleaned up now. Fixed in: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-video-arcade/commit/?id=8069ce9e45933e49ca5a702143775f15ad09cb86