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mame rom/version and xml questions
#322272 - 02/20/14 01:38 AM
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mame.exe -listxml >mame.xml to generate a list of supported games for my current mame version.
Can the game "name" change between mame versions? Example: 10yard(.zip), 10yard85(.zip) I know that the rom files inside the zip can change.
For instance, game "name=32x" is obviously not a game. It does not have the isbios or isdevice attributes. What attribute is only unique to game roms? I need a way to filter through this file so I can get info on the parents and their clones.
Thank you for viewing and answering my mame related questions.
Edited by Keil (02/20/14 01:38 AM)
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Re: mame rom/version and xml questions
[Re: Keil]
#322287 - 02/20/14 05:23 AM
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Re: mame rom/version and xml questions
[Re: krick]
#322308 - 02/20/14 04:21 PM
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> The name can and does change between versions.
>
> You can modify and filter the mame.xml using XSL transforms.
> Download xml2info and modify the included stylesheet.
> http://mame.3feetunder.com/xml2info/
Just to be sure we are on the same page... I'm talking about the (game) name, not the rom file names. I know that the rom file names can change between mame versions, but the name can change as well? This would make it very difficult for a database to keep track of anything, as no sort of ID would be associated with a game... Unless mame is using a database with an autoincrementing ID column and matching them to mame versions. But I think you see where I'm going here.
I need to match a game with artwork in my web app.
I can parse the XML on my own. I don't even use windows. I just want to know what keys or attributes to filter in the XML file.
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Re: mame rom/version and xml questions
[Re: Keil]
#322314 - 02/20/14 05:49 PM
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> > The name can and does change between versions.
> >
> > You can modify and filter the mame.xml using XSL transforms.
> > Download xml2info and modify the included stylesheet.
> > http://mame.3feetunder.com/xml2info/
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> Just to be sure we are on the same page... I'm talking about the (game) name, not the
> rom file names.
set names (or game names, as you seem to prefer) do change very often. for instance every time a more recent revision is dumped and the new one becomes the new parent set (taking the name of the previous one), with the former parent getting a new name.
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Re: mame rom/version and xml questions
[Re: etabeta]
#322368 - 02/21/14 01:47 PM
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Which is why we all use mame.xml-based Dat-files to keep it all up-to-date. You could log the changes from your Rom-Manager into a log files and see what changed, provided you have a full set.
Other than that, and I have to do this every time since I run my own catver.ini sort of file, run through mameinfo.dat with a texteditor with the search function set to: 0.152 or whatever the newest version is and read what changed per game. Name-changes are documented in there.
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