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* Moved common code for drawing about box, info viewer, and other text box menus to a base class; removed the last of the info viewer logic and the multi-line item hack from the base menu class. * Added previous/next group navigation for general inputs and plugin input selection menus. * Moved message catalog logic to lib/util, allowing osd and emu to use localised messages. * Made the base menu class use the UI manager’s feature for holding session state rather than a static map and mutex. * Improved menu event handling model, and fixed many issues, particularly with menus behaving badly when hidden/shown. * Added better support for menus that don’t participate in the usual menu stack, like the menuless sliders and the save/load state menus. * Made a number of menus refresh state when being shown after being hidden (fixes MT08121 among other issues). * Fixed indication of mounted slot option in the slot option details menu. * Improved appearance of background menus when emulation isn't running - draw all menus in the stack, and darken the background menus to make the edges of the active menu clearer. * Fixed locale issues in -listxml. -debugger: Made GUI debuggers more uniform. * Added new memory view features to Win32 debugger. * Fixed spelling of hexadecimal in Cocoa debugger and added decimal address option. * Fixed duplicate keyboard shortcut in Cocoa debugger (Shift-Cmd-D was both new device window and 64-bit float format). * Made keyboard shortcuts slightly more consistent across debuggers. -plugins: Moved input selection menu and sequence polling code to a common library. Fixed the issue that prevented keyboard inputs being mapped with -steadykey on. -docs: Started adding some documentation for MAME's internal UI, and updated the list of example front-ends. -Regenerated message catalog sources. For translators, the new strings are mostly: * The names of the inputs provided by the OS-dependent layer for things like fullscreen and video features. These show up in the user interface inputs menu. * The names for automatically generated views. These show up in the video options menu - test with a system with a lot of screens to see more variants. * The input macro plugin UI. * A few format strings for analog input assignments. * A few strings for the about box header.
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.. _plugins-data:
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Data Plugin
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===========
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The data plugin loads information from various external support files so it can
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be displayed in MAME. If the plugin is enabled, info is show in the **Infos**
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tab of the right-hand pane on the system and software selection menus. The info
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viewer can be shown by clicking the toolbar button on the system and software
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selection menus, or by choosing **External DAT View** from the main menu during
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emulation (this menu item will not appear if the data plugin is not enabled, or
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if no information is available for the emulated system).
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To set the folders where the data plugin looks for supported files, choose
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**Configure Options** on the system selection menu, then choose
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**Configure Directories**, and then choose **DATs**. You can also set the
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``historypath`` option in your **ui.ini** file.
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Loading large data files like **history.xml** can take quite a while, so please
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be patient the first time you start MAME after updating or adding new data
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files.
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The following files are supported:
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history.xml
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From `Gaming-History <https://www.arcade-history.com/>`_ (formerly
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Arcade-History)
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mameinfo.dat
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From `MASH’s MAMEINFO <https://mameinfo.mameworld.info/>`_
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messinfo.dat
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From `progetto-SNAPS MESSINFO.dat
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<https://www.progettosnaps.net/messinfo/>`_
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gameinit.dat
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From `progetto-SNAPS GameInit.dat
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<https://www.progettosnaps.net/gameinit/>`_
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command.dat
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from `progetto-SNAPS Command.dat
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<https://www.progettosnaps.net/command/>`_
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score3.htm
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`Top Scores <http://replay.marpirc.net/txt/scores3.htm>`_ from
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the `MAME Action Replay Page <http://replay.marpirc.net/>`_
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Japanese mameinfo.dat and command.dat
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From `MAME E2J <https://e2j.net/downloads/>`_
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sysinfo.dat
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From the defunct Progetto EMMA site
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story.dat
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From the defunct MAMESCORE site
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If you install `hi2txt <https://greatstoneex.github.io/hi2txt-doc/>`_, the data
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plugin can also show high scores from non-volatile memory or saved by the
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:ref:`hiscore support plugin <plugins-hiscore>` for supported games.
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Note that you can only use a single file of each type at a time. You cannot,
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for example, use the English and Japanese **mameinfo.dat** files simultaneously.
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The data plugin creates a **history.db** file in the first configured DATs
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folder. This file stores the information from the support files in a format
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suitable for rapid loading. It uses the SQLite3 database format.
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