* pce.xml: minor updates + remove a hack
* make newer revision of R-Type part 2 the parent
* remove motorod2a which appears to be a 1-byte hack: it changes the 5-player input loop counter to not read input from players 3 to 5
* ok really sync + fix publisher Masaya spelling
Co-authored-by: 0kmg <0kmg@users.noreply.github.com>
* New NOT_WORKING software list addition
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pce_tourvision.xml: Titan [Arcade Planet]
* Rename "TourVision" to "TourVisión"
As "TourVisión" is used on the carts, cab and printed ads.
* tourvis.cpp: Move "Tourvision" to "TourVisión"
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.
* pce_tourvision.xml: Add game ID for "F1 Triple Battle" (nw)
* pce_tourvision.xml: Fix spelling (nw)
The "F1 Triple Battle" cart ID was reverse-engineered by System11.
It has such a specific set of inputs required to start the game in 1p or 2p mode that it was easy to isolate the correct string from the 200+
defined in the data tables.
* pce_tourvision.xml: Add note (nw)
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.
* pce_tourvision.xml: New WORKING software list additions
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Blodia (Tourvision PCE bootleg) [system11, Recreativas.org, ClawGrip]
Ganbare! Golf Boys (Tourvision PCE bootleg) [system11, Recreativas.org, ClawGrip]
Hanii on the Road (Tourvision PCE bootleg) [system11, Ricky2001, Recreativas.org, ClawGrip]
Time Cruise II (Tourvision PCE bootleg) [system11, Ricky2001, Recreativas.org, ClawGrip]
* Cleaned the TourVisión software list
* Unified publisher names with the PCE softlist, where it's just publisher, not developer or copyright holder (taken from the serial prefix).
* Changed carts IDs to hexa.
* Trimmed the ROM when the splitted data matches the PCE HuCard dump (on the PCE softlist).
* When it's the same, unified the ROM name with the PCE softlist.
* Marked the TourVisión dumps that do not fully match any known PCE ROM.
* Fixed some ROM area sizes.
* Added "alt_title" info.
* Removed Parasol Stars (rumored, but not actually dumped).
* Checked and splitted also the 1MB -> 384KB dumps (nw)
Also renamed outrun to outruna [Out Run (alt)], as it's different from the PCE ROM.
* Rename pcgenj -> pcgenja (nw)
* pce_tourvision.xml: Add game IDs as a "feature" (nw)
Game IDs are relevant to the emulation, and should be on the XML, not on comments.
Also updated the comments on missing games and missing IDs.
* Removed "Money In The Sky II" from undumped games list (it's really "Hani on the Road") (nw)
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pce_tourvision: Final Soldier, PC Genjin, Saint Dragon, Splatterhouse, Tiger Road, Violent Soldier [system11, The Dumping Union]
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pce_tourvision: Bomberman 93, Die Hard, Hit The Ice, Knight Rider Special [system11]
tourvis: Added new BIOS dump, clarified BIOS names, and updated several games with newly discovered ID codes. [system11, Tafoid]
Updated driver with new information related to ID and gamelist for tourvis.cpp [system11, Tafoid]
Fixed instances in source where "Tecmo" was shown as "Temco". This also covers MT#6293. (nw)
