MAME - sort by game reaching working status - ?

[qmish]

Hi, is there a database or website where you can sort mame-supported games by "became playable/fully playable" date?

Or maybe there is a website that just keeps the list of when new game was added to mame fully?

Honestly, i only ever knew that e.g. Akai Katana or Panasonic M2 were added and playable just because of "word of mouth", and that makes me really not aware of all those games that were finally made playable. Should be a way to easily browse all that. And yes, i dont mean "date of digitalized" or "date of added to mame", but actually playable from start to finish without severe glitches, yeah.

[Bassa-Bassa]

Is Akai Katana officially back in the latest version? What about SDOJ?

As I think what you're looking for is likely beyond what current online DB's provide (and the "without severe glitches" will always be a personal consideration - is the lack of proper slowdown in Galuda 2 or Pink Sweets severe?), I can only suggest the official what's new release pages:

https://www.mamedev.org/releases/whatsnew_0245.txt

For arcade stuff, search for the strings

New working machines
Machines promoted to working

and repeat the process with the next (or previous) version.

Oddly enough, these pages are lately a PITA to read as they repeat the information once and again for no apparent reason, but when you reach a couple of years ago or so it gets better.

[qmish]

Yeah well my question is because i hope there is another way than just spend your life on reading every "update notes" to try see if it mentions some games or not.

Imagine doing it for 7 years of releases... during one evening...

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Yeah well my question is because i hope there is another way than just spend your life on reading every "update notes" to try see if it mentions some games or not.

You don't have to read it, just hit Ctrl + F as in Find and just search the document for the name of games you're interested to see if there's been any changes. Quick and easy.

As Bassa-Bassa says, such a list is unlikely to ever exist because what's considered "without severe glitches" is going to be subjective (was the bug where Omega Fighter was way easier than intended that went unnoticed for years a "severe" glitch?). Also complicating things is that there's many games flagged by MAME in yellow as having some graphical, audio, or gameplay glitches may more or less work just fine, and some flagged as 100% working may have bugs like the Omega Fighter thing only someone familiar with the PCB would notice.

[qmish]

You don't have to read it, just hit Ctrl + F as in Find and just search the document for the name of games you're interested to see if there's been any changes. Quick and easy.

That's not what i require. I talk about pretty much the opposite!

E.g. when you come back to MAME 3 or 5 years later, so you need to go and find out what new games became playable.

[qmish]

On a further inspection, one of possible workarounds (not perfect, though) that is suggested, will be using catver.ini or version.ini

I haven't succeeded yet with enabling catver (as it doesn't work in arcade64 nor official mame), but i tried version and it provides a many many folders (instead of "sorting by" ability), each folder changing list of games related to mame build version. However, i guess it tracks "added to mame", so it needs some additional filtering to disable "not working" games from it.