MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: A list of arcade-only romsets.

> I'm trying to get a list of romsets that are purely arcade as I want to discard ROM's
> I'm not really interested in such as fruit machines, computers, pinball etc.
> I've sussed out the 'ismechanical' flag and I have successfully removed these roms
> from my main romset via listxml.
>
> However, there is no 'iscomputer' or 'isarcade' equivalent that I can see.
>
> Does anyone know of a command where I can simply get the arcade roms and nothing
> else? Not too worried about the BIOS's etc. Just the main rom sets would be useful.
>
> Thanks

Note that the 'ismechanical' filter only applies to screenless games e.g. mechanical reel slots, British style fruit machines, pinball machines and games which only use lights for output (including LEDs and 7-segment displays), but not video poker, video slot machines or mahjong, since these games normally use regular old arcade machine hardware, usually a generation or two behind the arcade games because it's cheaper to manufacture.

I believe however that there is also a 'casino' filter (whether or not it's in MAME and/or the frontend in question) which can remove the remaining gambling games, as long as the games themselves fall under the casino category (I don't know if 'amusement only' poker games still fall under casino or not).