has detect an issue with the filter settings or maybe my settings are incorrect. had trouble to get some capcom games running (mainly on cps2, zn1, zn2). The issue was i miss the “qsound.zip” in the created rom-dir. this setting i used with the category sorter: http://pastebin.com/1iFKBR76
hello i confirm this strange behaviour, i selected “copy bios files” but no bios files were copied, plus i made some tries with “mechanical machines” excluded i obitained for two times TWO DIFFERENT RESULTS!!
edit: i’m using latest version edit2: i made two quick test: test 1: i ONLY selected SYSTEM /BIOS include filter and NO bios were copied test2: i ONLY selected the copy bios files (from dat) and NO bios were copied
sorry for the double post but i think this should be separate as i think i found the bug
selecting SYSTEM / BIOS and DESELECTING “always exclude non-runnable entries” did the work 99%… the first time
it did the work even the second time i tried it but this time it copied almost all bios with non working games too 
however neogeo.zip and qsound.zip was not copied anyway (and possibly other bioses?? who know)
hope this could help fix the bug
so if “always exclude non-runnable entries” is SELECTED bios files aren’t copied
edit: ok neogeo.zip is not under system / bios but under multi-cart board, and qsound.zip too is not under system / bios but under system / devices
so i suggest this workaround:
use this filter “Multi-cart Board|System|System / BIOS|System / Device” with “always exclude non-runnable entries” NOT SELECTED and copy all bios files SELECTED
and do the first run, the generated folder will contain all bios/devices and so on.
do another run with your preferred filters, you can check now “always exclude non-runnable entries” to filter out non runnable entries and generate your favorite game list in another directory
merge the two directories and have fun
@Yurif74 it sounds like my parsing function is not handling your data correctly – often this is because there is some slight changes in how MAME formatted metadata over the years. I will try to fix this.
Could you please let me know which MAME core you are using? What are the versions your catver.ini and XML dat files?
@shakalakka I am embarrassed that my app is evidently the source of your problems with the more recent versions of MAME!
Your report took me straight to the problem. There is an issue in the code path for Device and Mechanical ROM sets. The app does not apply the filter to those files consistently now. I should be able to come up with a fix pretty quickly.
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I’ve just uploaded an updated version with today’s date that corrects the BIOS inclusion filter so that it now also encompasses Devices and Mechanicals for more recent MAME versions.
I also worked a bit on the labels to make the other filters clearer to understand. If you notice any more issues @Yurif74 and @shakalakka please feel free to let me know.
hello @markwkidd,
i used MAME 159.dat and Catver.ini for mame 0.159 , actually i’m using mame 2014…
i’m using core mame2014_libretro.so
could the collection format make problems? (splitted, merged, non-merged)
i will try latest version of simple arcade multifilter 
thanks
Thank you for your help testing this!
Non-Merged and Split sets should work exactly the same. Merged sets will only be seen as the parent ROM (as with RetroArch) but otherwise they should work too. That is at least one issue that this app shouldn’t have trouble with!
i would suggest an “abort” option during the file filtering© process, i was testing and i made a mistake… now i have to wait until the entire (long) process reach the end 
That is a good idea - I’ll see what that would entail next time I’m working on the GUI.
edit: I just received another GUI suggestion from the French Recalbox forums, to add a ‘browse’ button for Configure Source https://forum.recalbox.com/post/50182. Wanted to make sure that gets logged here as well.
There is a crude way to abort – if you see the joystick icon for the app in your Windows system tray (usually the bottom right) then you should be able to right-click and force the app to exit.
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I just posted an updated version dated March 6 that incorporates “browse” buttons that can be used to configure the various source and output paths per requests in the RecalBox forum. Welcome to the future! 
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VERY nice tweaks!!!
but how can i start the process ? 
LOL, that is one way to know I may be starting to put too many options on that menu.
I have just pushed an update that shrinks the category selector vertically by 30px. Could you confirm that menu now fits within your screen?
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new version runs great. bring another 60 bios/device-files to my set. Thank you for this improvement. The new browse buttons are very helpful, too!
will do some testing arround with mame next days and report here if anything going wrong with the romset/playlist. for now it look pretty usable to me.
Thank you very very much!!!
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Hello, have a problem to exclude the “not working” roms. The Multifilter copy over many roms that definitly not working with Mame anyway. Some examples are: Virtua Cop 1+2, Sega Rally 1+2 ,Time Crisis 2,3,4 … and many many more (especially games for some “highend” boards since late 90ies and later - like Model 2, Model 3, Naomi, Lindbergh, Chihiro, Triforce, Namco System 23, Namcops2, Hyper Neo Geo 64 and so on…). stand-alone MameUI exclude this roms correct (if filter “not working” filter is selected). Anybody have the same Problem or any change to see this fixed anyway? My Sets are Mame2014 and Mame2016
EDIT: maybe markwkidd can add a “bios/board” depending filter (similar to the one in CMP) as workaround?
Yes I want to work on this issue and I’m trying to decide whether to proceed by modifying the DAT files or the catver.ini files. Hmm.
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The Multifilter does a very good job. if it can filter the non-working roms its seems nearly perfect to me. Thank you very much for working on this!!!
sorry but i have no clue about this. all i can do is testing and niggle 
But maybe you can try to find out which “flag” is used by stand-alone Mame for filter the non-workings !?
It’s the catver.ini files that needs to be modified. I know 0.78 catver.ini is not complete and a few games slipped by.
I was using Mame32 UI to check my romlist when i first noticed this a few months ago.
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@Rion do you have an easy way to create a list of the romsets which are missing from the MAME 0.78 catver.ini?
I am currently taking on the process of making the official mame2003 catver.ini a ‘fork’ of the original catver.ini with two goals. Based on your post I will add a new goal #1, so now there are three.
- Fill in data for all missing romset entries
- Simplify, correct, and modernize the categories
- Verify and update the “Unplayable” entries based on the MAME 0.78 gamelist and the RetroPie MAME 2003 compatibility project spreadsheet
Because you have alerted me to the missing romsets I will eventually look into it, but if you are interested in helping you may be able to get this fixed faster.
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