QuickPlay has support for a 'Game Type' property for Roms, but how do you use it? Well you can set the game type by using the Rom Properties form. However if the ROM happens to be a MAME ROM your in luck because QuickPlay supports the CatVer.ini file! The CatVer.ini file is a MAME-ONLY file, which contains information on all the currently supported games in MAME. This information just happens to include the game type, so I added in support for this file. Of course that still means that other systems will have blank entries for this field. Until I can discover a simple and EFFECTIVE way of determining game types for other systems this will be the case.
So how do you use this feature - well its very simple. Firstly download the current catver.ini file from here or from here . Extract the file if need be. Now move the catver.ini file into the QuickPlay DATS directory. Load QuickPlay and browse to your MAME directory, now simple go to the MAME options on the toolbar and click 'Process current dir with catver.ini'. Hey presto in a few seconds your MAME games will all have a game type!