* Official media leans towards using literal romaji "JIKKYOU PAWAFURU PURO YAKŪ".
* Software lists still have "Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu" to help people search.
* Cleaned up spaces in software list comments.
* megadriv.xml: Improperly indented sharedfeat tag.
* gbcolor.xml: Converted "GBC only" comments into sharedfeat tags.
* a5200.hsi: Fixed a few dispossessed tags.
* Various softlists: Fixed improperly entabulated tags.
* Various softlists: More entabulation fixes.
- Streamlined logging across chips to use logmacro.h, removed popmessages and printfs in production code;
- Add missing include guards in header files;
- split Atomiswave into own file from naomi.cpp (dc_atomiswave.cpp);
- powervr2.cpp: YUV pitch follows U size, fixes#8999
- powervr2.cpp: move Elan related stuff back into naomi2_state;
- naomi.cpp: support for player 2 keyboard inputs;
- naomi.cpp: add proper inputs to alpilot/alpilotj and sstrkfgt;
- naomi.cpp: hookup lightgun for deathcox;
- naomi.cpp: make G2-DMA timings slightly more accurate (fixes sfz3ugd silent BGMs regression caused by implicit insta-DMAs)
- dc_g2if.cpp: wrote a device for G2 DMA interface, fixes#9000 ;
- dc_g2if.cpp: add E1/E2/DD channels thru template, add area protection, add illegal address and overflow exceptions (fixes loopchk g2 bus tests 0302 and 0303)
- aica.cpp: $2814 CA reads doesn't need shifting, fixes ADX repeating sample/hang bugs in many entries [Angelo Salese, MetalliC];
- powervr2.cpp: make ISP/TSP irq to be slower, fixes regression bug with Capcom fighters having frame hiccups [David Haywood, Angelo Salese]
- dc_atomiswave.cpp: converted aw_modem_r/_w to 32-bit, added 3p/4p inputs to ggisuka, expose EXID to an input/output ioports for future extensions;
- dc_atomiswave.cpp: extend xtrmhnt2 ALL.Net hack for -drc, move around state machine to derive ALL.Net external device mapping instead of driver_init fn, demote to MUP for obvious reasons;
- dc_atomiswave: add Area 1 mirrors, fix maxspeed title screen animation;
- [MT#8143](https://mametesters.org/view.php?id=8143) is fixed
New NOT_WORKING software list additions
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dc.xml: DC Checker for Repair v2.05R (World), Loop Checker v1.00 (World), GD Drive Repair Program v0.1 (World) [Hidden Palace]
The free-for-all on labels in software lists is not working. There's no
consistency, labels are getting excessively long, people are starting to
use non-ASCII characters in labels making it harder for others to type
them when manipulating files on the command line, and there's too much
markup being put in labels.
The length limit is 127 characters, same as for labels in MAME itself.
This should be long enough to be descriptive. Remember that the Win32
path limit is 260 characters, and many applications and frameworks have
issues with longer paths, including Windows Explorer and the .NET
framework. Labels are used as filenames, so concessions need to be
made for this.
I have not abbreviated excessively long labels myself - they're
currently causing 135 validity errors. Someone else can fix them.
Printable ASCII characters are allowed, with a few exceptions. The
exceptions are limited to characters most likely to cause issues for
interactive shells and scripts:
* ! - csh event substitution (very difficult to escape properly)
* $ - sh varibale expansion
* % - csh job control, cmd variable expansion
* / - UNIX directory separator
* : - sh path separator, Windows drive qualifier
* \ - sh escape, Windows directory separator
Most of the labels that had to be edited were using ! for markup, or
using ! and % for titles in labels. Strangely, titles in labels are
often forced to lower case, despite this never being enforced for
software lists. There are also various other edits to titles used for
labels, such as moving articles to the end (with or without a comma),
or replacing spaces with underscores. As I already said, there's no
consistency at all.
There is far too much markup in labels. They're even being used for
notes in some cases (e.g. at least one case where a dumper's name is in
the label). The XML schema supports metadata - use it. For example,
you can use part_id for an unrestricted display name for a software
part. You can also use XML comments for notes.
And while on the topic of metadata, vgmplay.xml is putting the same
thing in the part_id as well as the label. The part_id should have
the actual title, not the title mangled to make it more suitable for
use as a filename. Addressing this would be a lot of work, given how
large the file is.
For now, empty data areas in software lists cause a verbose message
rather than a validation warning. There are thousands of software
lists using empty data areas to indicate the size/width of cartridge
RAM/EEPROM/etc.
Get rid of a couple of copies of the CC0 text. Add header comment to
CC0 files to remind people editing them what the terms are. Also add
some missing XML headers. The header comments in layouts won't bloat
the binary - they get stripped out before compressing, same as any other
comments.
