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* (nw) softlist_dev.cpp: validate ROM labels Vas Crabb2020-04-161-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* softlist_dev.cpp: start adding validation for data areas Vas Crabb2020-04-161-48/+48
| | | | | | | | | | romload.cpp: reduce copy-pasta (nw) (nw) I fixed the errors found by adding validation to software list data areas. Most of them seem to be simple copy-paste errors hidden by the fact that the default device_image_interface loader ignores the data area size (as opposed to the "ROM" loader). There was one C64 cartridge with a missing zero on the data area size that was pretty clearly wrong.
* (nw) More license shuffling Vas Crabb2020-03-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | 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.
* (nw) h,i*.xml : removed offset=0 Robbbert2019-05-161-263/+263
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* Cleanup and version bumpmame0175 Miodrag Milanovic2016-06-291-1/+1
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* added recently released ms. pacman dump to intv.xml. etabeta782016-05-301-0/+19
| | | | | | unfortunately it does not work... is Huygens still around and willing to take a look? nw. [thanks Anna Wu for pointing out the release]
* (MESS) intv.xml: added some more titles, mostly protos from GoodINTV. nw. etabeta782014-10-291-4/+164
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* (MESS) intv.xml: added a few images I've been sent. nw. etabeta782014-10-271-18/+339
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* (MESS) intv: converted the driver to use slot devices for Fabio Priuli2014-10-081-207/+399
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cartridges and implemented the IntelliVoice expansion and the Entertainment Computer System expansion as passthru devices. The official syntax to launch games requiring the speech expansion is now mess intv -cart voice -cart2 gamename which corresponds to mounting the IntelliVoice and plugging the game cart in its subslot. The official syntax to launch games requiring the ECS expansion is now instead mess intv -cart ecs -cart2 gamename and mess intv -cart ecs -cart2 voice -cart3 gamename if the game requires both expansions at once. For additional user friendliness, we also offer intvecs (which emulates an Intellivision unit with both expansions added) and intvoice (which emulates an Intellivision with Intellivoice expansion added) drivers, where games can simply be mounted with the -cart media switch. [Fabio Priuli]
* used old version of srcclean, so I put back old files and run it again, it ↵ Miodrag Milanovic2013-03-191-3/+3
| | | | produce much less changes, sorry for this (nw)
* Cleanups and version bumpmame0148u2 Miodrag Milanovic2013-03-191-3/+3
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* use spaces in xml comments. This is the output from a local srcclean change ↵ smf-2013-01-111-3/+3
| | | | applied after reverting the 0.148 cleanup, to avoid losing previous formatting.
* Cleanups and version bumpmame0148 Miodrag Milanovic2013-01-111-3/+3
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* Sync software lists from MESS into hash (no whatsnew) Miodrag Milanovic2012-08-211-0/+1997