* new WORKING machines
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Wireless Tennis (PAL, Play Vision) [David Haywood, Sean Riddle]
World Soccer TV Game 10-in-1 (PAL) [David Haywood, Sean Riddle]
Solar Games 80-in-1 (PAL) [David Haywood, Sean Riddle]
Out Run 2019 (Radica Plug & Play, Europe) [David Haywood, Sean Riddle]
new NOT WORKING machines
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10 Jeux Interactifs / Jeux Pour Filles (France) [David Haywood, Sean Riddle, Team Europe]
- added a note to indicate that the ROM from the Out Run 2019 Radica Plug & Play matches what is considered to be a 'Beta / Prototype' US version in NoIntro / MAME Software Lists.
* correct hash
* specpls3_flop.xml: Added more disk images, some of which were previously missing from the internet due to them being considered "Distribution Denied". [Antonio M, Fede Jerez, Gorski, Jaime González Soriano, José Manuel, Marino Arribas, Metalbrain, robcfg, Simon Owen, Syx, Zup, TZX Vault]
* spectrum_cass: Added verified dump of Load'N'Run (Spain) (Especial) [Manu128k]
* Created softlist for Timex cassettes (timex_cass)
* megadriv.xml Added some info on games which need redumps.
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.
* megadriv.xml - mark sonic protos as comming from loose eproms
* megadriv.xml - Add another Sonic 2 prototype dump
* gamegear.xml - Add Sonic 2 proto
* megadriv.xml - Add Sonic 3 prototype
* load16_word_swap
* Missed one
This effectively reverts b380514764 and
c24473ddff, restoring the state at
598cd52272.
Before pushing, please check that what you're about to push is sane.
Check your local commit log and ensure there isn't anything out-of-place
before pushing to mainline. When things like this happen, it wastes
everyone's time. I really don't need this in a week when real work™ is
busting my balls and I'm behind where I want to be with preparing for
MAME release.
* various reorganization of radica and vtech stuff
* missed this (nw)
* correct file (nw)
* newlines and stuff (nw)
* less c_str (nw)
* worse (IMHO) filenames (nw)
* format got messed up (nw)
* some bits for golden tee (nw)
* get us renderng something in rad_gtg (nw)
* some basic inputs (nw)
* further improvements to the Golden Tee Home Edition (radica eu3a14)
added Radica Sensible Soccer [Sean Riddle]
* tilebase handling (nw)
* golden tee home video improvements (nw)
* Add bullvsblj to the confirmed dump section with no pcb pic.
* Add shikinjo to the confirmed dump with no pcb pic section.
* Add new dump of Tom and Jerry (Jpn).
* Add valis3j to the confirmed dump with no pcb pic section
* Move worldillj to the confirmed dump section.
* Move bullvsblj to the confirmed dump section and add pcb feature
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megadriv.xml: Sega Channel (Jpn), two revisions [Kiddo Cabbusses, RetroJunkie]
out of whatsnew: these were dumped back in Oct. 2013, but since we can't attract interest of console
dumpers in our softlists, it got overlooked for all this time (by nointro as well, FWIW)... we really need
to better organize our preservation efforts !!
This new softlist feature is now used by genesis_tmss to exclude several entries from megadriv.xml.
- Use popmessage instead of osd_printf_warning for incompatibility warnings
- Unify some common software loading code, which reduces indentation levels in clifront.cpp
