You'll first need to grab a text editor and prepare a list of all the roms you want to wind up with, one rom per row, like this: Save that file to your Desktop in plain text as 'files. I ran across a bash script which can be run inside Automator.
There aren't any tools like clrmame that make it easy well, maybe easy is the wrong word for clrmame to sort through the thousands of roms in a full set to get down to something useful to say nothing of getting rid of Mahjong and other stuff that you probably don't have any interest in.īut if you know which games you want to have in a given list for your front end, there is a relatively-easy way to cull them out of a massive roms set. ROM sorting on the Mac is basically nonexistent. But in my case I'm strictly a classic-era gamer, and performance under bit is just fine.
I may get motivated and load up Mavericks on a spare drive just to see what happens, if so I'll report back on the results.
I just finished doing some updates to my OS X-driven cab and figured I might as well pass along my experiences. Bit of a public service announcement here, as there's very little info out there for OS X arcade emulation. 15 Best Game Console Emulators for Mac OS
