Arcade Romsets - Filter your collection to just have the great games!

This video shows the Arcade Italia Arcade Database being used to filter down your 40,000+ romset collection to a much more manageable number based on the criteria that you want.
If you have a working collection of romsets, this is an easy way to copy out just the games you want to play to avoid scrolling through thousands!

Arcade Italia - Arcade Database

Best Game Reviews

Romlister version of filtering

More arcade rom terminology

[DungarooTV]

A very powerful tool to trim down rom collections - most people only play around 500 games if that many out of the 12, 000+ rubbish romsets out there!

[martinmt]

Pure gold! Been struggling for a week with this. Much appreciated! <3

[MrMch]

You have no idea how long I've needed a video like this. Thank you so very much!!!

[BakersBricks]

Thanks for this. Currently overwhelmed by large arcade romsets and was looking for a curated list for batocera, this is perfect :)

[wd]

This is fabulous. I planned to take a whole day and filter out the roms manually. This makes it so much easier

[StarscreamSWE]

I just imported the full non-merged 0.252 romset to launchbox without any duplicates/versions. I then choice with genres to not include in the import options.
After importing I sorted all the roms with a star score of below 3 plus all the roms without less then 4 reviews and deleted them. I then exported my filterer romset and importered again after deleting all roms. Worked like a charm!

[Suavissimo]

Fantastic! A clear, simple way out of game chaos. Thanks!

[davidward]

This guy's video's are really good. He goes into great detail. If it's not working, it's likely you missed a step. I have been going back to parts of the video multiple times. I got 202 working roms in mame which is better than I have ever done myself. Also tip if you play test your roms in retropie any non working roms put in the arcade folder. Then run fb neo as a default on those rom sets fb neo will tell you exactly what you are missing.

[the-papaw]

Great video. Just a little helpful hint, you can drag your bat file into the DOS (cmd) windows and press <ENTER> rather than typing the file name out.

[LongyFromCork]

Awesome video. I also watch your other amazing video on Merged and Unmerged Rom Sets. Thanks so much for taking the time to make these videos. You couldn't have explained it any better.

[Teremei]

Thanks, this really helped. For the first time I'm excited to play arcade on a retroid. because I have 300 instead of 8000.

[hdjoe]

you are a godsend my good man! THANK YOU

[FenriXHolzkiste]

What a good and simple to understand video. thank you.

[shaolin]

Great video! Helped me cleaned out my ROM Collection :)

[cordlesstool]

Might you know which export option will be correct if using a mac rather than windows? Your video is excellent but my mac won't run the .bat or windows .cmd. Many thanks

[thecrackedset]

excellent tutorial! Worked like a charm. Big thanks.

[NunoPereira]

I use a lot this site, is amazingf it the options that have and for extracted direct to many frontends too. Great video!

[TechieZeddie]

Thanks! This explains a lot! Any way to filter by region and hacked clones to reduce the amount of duplicates? For example, don't need the European or Japanese ROMs, just US ones, and don't want hacked roms like Street Fighter rainbow edition.

[TonELowq]

Are you using a full merged rom set in the video or Non merged set? I did this process with a full merged set but its importing 2900 games out of the 1400 roms. BTW im using LB frontend. Im a bit stumped.

[sixbnes]

Thank you for this. Anything similar for console/computer collections? I really like the filtering on ratings, etc.