Top 1000 MAME Games list can be seen here: MAME Game Titles Table.
This script will copy approx top 800 deduplicated games without BIOS files to a folder you choose.
Discuss here: https://www.retroroms.info/forum/topic/Top-1000-MAME-games.htm
Download the script and list file: file_copy.ps1 file_copy_list_mame_top1000_nobios.txt
Right-click edit file_copy.ps1
Update two lines to match your directories
$sourceFolder = "D:\Games\MAME\roms" $destinationFolder = "C:\tmp\arcade"
Open a powershell as admin and run:
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
Now you can run the script. There are two modes:
1 = Report only 2 = Copy files
Two report files will always be created also:
file_copy_report_files_copied.txt file_copy_report_files_not_found.txt
Alternate use:
You can skip the step of a full ROM set download.
Take the file file_copy_list_mame_top1000_nobios.txt and insert in front of each line the URL of your fav ROMS site.
Then paste the links into JDownloader for the download.
All credits for game selection to the following posts:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,149708.msg1563036.html#msg1563036 https://hyperspin-fe.com/files/file/11710-griffin518s-best-of-mame-xml-database/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MAME/comments/2rawpr/i_compiled_several_best_ofrecommended_arcade/