Lazarus Suggestion

[SirPoonga]

Hey HC.  I found another thing my fe does that use all the time.

I also have the ability to "rename" a game.  Like I can rename "Joust (red/white label)" to "Joust".  Or like "Captain America (US Rev 1.9)" to "Captain America".

In otherwords, just have the ability to change the display name.  I keep a table in my db of the games I want renamed to get rid of any extra thing in the title.

Also, I noted in the DOS FE thread about delete roms if would be cool if your FE had a lazy delete too.  A list of games that shouldn't show up on the list.  This, partly for me, coincides witht he renaming thing.  If I rename Captain America then I will "delete" the other Revs from showing up.

[Howard_Casto]

I decent suggestion.  Sounds like a lot of work though, so I probably won't do it.

As for deleting revisions, I'm not quite sure why you would want to do that.  I just turn all the clones off myself and if for some reason I want another revision to show up I manually add the rom name into the searchstring.  The only two times I've added one manually is Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (Because this really isn't a clone, I have no frikkin clue why they call it a clone.)  And pac-man (because nobody in the US has heard of puckman.)  

[Lilwolf]

One thing you might add.  I keep thinking of doing it to jfront, but haven't got around it.

a setPreferedClone or do it automatically.

automatically is you can get from the listinfo the status of the driver.  And if any clones status is better then the parent, the parent will start the clone when you want it to launch.

Or maybe just a text file since there aren't that many (especally now that popeyes encryption is broken.  That was the only one I really cared about...)

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah I was really going to do that but them when I was looking over the list info file I realized there were only 3 games that had that problem.  Popeye (now fixed) one of the vampire savior games(now fixed)  and cyberbots
(like anyone cares, that poor game sucked anyway)

If the mame dirvers ever get screwy again as they were around a year ago I might add it, but I'm not going to add it for literally one game.  

[flemming]

Hey HC.  I found another thing my fe does that use all the time.

I also have the ability to "rename" a game.  Like I can rename "Joust (red/white label)" to "Joust".  Or like "Captain America (US Rev 1.9)" to "Captain America".

In otherwords, just have the ability to change the display name.  I keep a table in my db of the games I want renamed to get rid of any extra thing in the title.

For what it's worth you can do that with pyReCADE.  You can actually do it two different ways.  The first is the MUNGE_DESCRIPTIONS config option.  This take option takes a list of strings which you would like to remove from a games description.  The primary reason for me adding this feature was to allow the PlayChoice10: and Cassette: roms to appear under their proper letter of the alphabet.  Example: PlayChoice 10: Castlevania shows up under C rather than P.  The second way is with the custom.cfg file.  In that file you can specify an alternate description to use for a game like you mentioned above.  Some of the other cool things you can do it that file are:

Give a game a custom category different than what is listed in catver.ini

Specify a different command line or options to use when running that game only

And the coolest feature is specify an alternate rom to use in place of the current one.  This is really handy when you are hiding clones.  So for example rather than running gaunlet run gaunt2p instead, or instead of puckman run pacman.

I'm REALLY close to making the actual first release of pyReCADE, but you can always grab the latest from CVS for the fun of it.   Of course there is that added perk of it running on pretty much any modern platform, though Linux is my primary concern.  Have no fear a .exe will be made available for Windows users, so they don't have to fight with installing Python, SDL, etc.

http://pyrecade.sourceforge.net/

Robert

[Howard_Casto]

Hey HC.  I found another thing my fe does that use all the time.

I also have the ability to "rename" a game.  Like I can rename "Joust (red/white label)" to "Joust".  Or like "Captain America (US Rev 1.9)" to "Captain America".

In otherwords, just have the ability to change the display name.  I keep a table in my db of the games I want renamed to get rid of any extra thing in the title.

For what it's worth you can do that with pyReCADE.  You can actually do it two different ways.  The first is the MUNGE_DESCRIPTIONS config option.  This take option takes a list of strings which you would like to remove from a games description.  The primary reason for me adding this feature was to allow the PlayChoice10: and Cassette: roms to appear under their proper letter of the alphabet.  Example: PlayChoice 10: Castlevania shows up under C rather than P.  The second way is with the custom.cfg file.  In that file you can specify an alternate description to use for a game like you mentioned above.  Some of the other cool things you can do it that file are:

Give a game a custom category different than what is listed in catver.ini

Specify a different command line or options to use when running that game only

And the coolest feature is specify an alternate rom to use in place of the current one.  This is really handy when you are hiding clones.  So for example rather than running gaunlet run gaunt2p instead, or instead of puckman run pacman.

I'm REALLY close to making the actual first release of pyReCADE, but you can always grab the latest from CVS for the fun of it.   Of course there is that added perk of it running on pretty much any modern platform, though Linux is my primary concern.  Have no fear a .exe will be made available for Windows users, so they don't have to fight with installing Python, SDL, etc.

http://pyrecade.sourceforge.net/

Robert

I actually like that idea a lot better... It would be much easier for me to filter out portions of text rather than setup a seperate list to keep track of them all.  I could set it up like the filters now and then it wouldn't need to be permenant.  

[SirPoonga]

Well, even with the show no clones you still get games like Joust.  that's why I ahve the renaming in my FE.