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Reged: 12/30/12
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Posts: 431
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Loc: Halifax, Canada
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Re: Notice for Rom Manager & Front-end authors
09/11/16 04:11 PM
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> This are to be kept forever case insensitive (lowercase is usually desired) as I > think all input is converted to a particular case for parsing anyway. Do you want > really want to potentially type a 255 character setname in order to issue a command > line to run a machine or an image? I don't think anyone does. At 16 characters, it is > something that can be identified better, allow for more full game names (less cryptic > abbreviations for long titles) and still be typed quickly. Remember, we've had 16 > character clone setnames in service for more than 7 years now. > I was not thinking of longer names for typing on the command line (thus my alias suggestion allowing both long and short names). Where longer names would come in handy is in manual file management. For example, a new release of MAME borks the settings on a particular machine and I have to look through a folder with hundreds of config files trying to find the right one to delete.
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