Top 1000 MAME games

I've put together a ROMs list and simple script to copy from a full set, to directory of your choice.I call this the Top 1000 MAME games. Although it's more like 900, Top 1000 has a nice ring to it.

I structured in a way that the rom list is a file and therefore it can also be used with JDownloader to eliminate the step off downloading a full set. But you'd need to edit the file and insert the URL for the retroroms.info server yourself, and then paste into JDownloader.

I didn't build out an elaborate index of the games yet and I'm the process of testing every game and deleting duplicates. But so far it's pretty awesome.

https://github.com/JJWatMyself/MAME-Top-1000-Games

Here's a quick video. This is using ES-DE as the front end on my Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 tablet.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/UPCBjMkLyhw1bpRF9

Don't you like City Connection?

Oh wow, thank you! Happy to add. Feel free to point out others. I'll be honest, I'm a total noob.

This project is a curation of a number of lists into one mega list.

I'm testing things next.

I have completed a milestone update this evening as follows:

1. Eliminate approx 100 duplicate titles, examples include multiple regions or different number of players (2 vs 4).
2. Remove all BIOS files and put in a dedicated file.  These are better in a folder to not display on game list.
3. Created table of all game titles (805 at present) here https://github.com/JJWatMyself/MAME-Top-1000-Games/blob/main/mame_game_titles.md

I've published what I am calling v2.  It adds a curation from LaunchBox for Arcade games with a Community Scores of 3.0 and higher.  It is then combined with the original list, and de-duplicated further.  The game titles total is 1424.  Running Skraper on this is super clean with only 6 titles skipped. There may be some tweaks on the list as I explore and further compare.

https://github.com/JJWatMyself/MAME-Top-1000-Games/blob/main/file_copy_list_mame_top1000_v2_nobios.txt