Arcade Full Set Importer should include option to ignore System/BIOS and System/Devices

[famigami]

It is possible to want to import everything except Devices and Bios. If you leave all skip options turned on, then non-working games don’t get imported. If you turn them all off, then Devices and Bios zips are imported as games (there are 5000 such files). Therefore, there should be additional filter options to allow or skip devices and bios files on import.

There is a difference between a non-working game and devices/bios which aren’t games at all. Therefore we should be able to filter base don that distinction.

I consider this major based on the sheer number of files that need to be manually deleted after importing.

[Christian]

Thanks for the report. I’m looking at the code and the way it looks right now we should be filtering out Bios files already. Do you have a few file examples you could give me that are slipping through the cracks?

[Retro808]

It does not sound like the importer is skipping anything in its current state. I think this is more a request to refine the importer. Users would like an option to be able to import all games and have check box for just skipping Device and Bios files.

[Christian]

Yeah. What I’m saying is that the importer in it’s current state should be skipping them. I was curious what ROMs he was seeing that were BIOS that got imported into his collection so I could check them against the MAME metadata to ensure we are skipping all that we could be with the logic already in the importer.