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FE Devs, Do you have this problem with alien3?
SirPoonga:
Just curious as to how many people this effects? Checkout the description of alien3.
Also, what do you plan on doing about it?
For those with search engines in your FE how do you plan on searching for this rom?
lokki:
Hi,
I think the problem is that the name is Alien3, So mame is trying to add the superscript
Minwah:
"Alien\xb3: The Gun"
OK, so why '\xb3'? What actually understands the \xb part?
I'm not going to do anything about it for now, let's wait and see if it changes (there seems to be a lot of listxml related changes going on)...
If it sticks I'll probably just code something to get rid of the \xb, I mean how bad is 'Alien3: The Gun'?
SirPoonga:
--- Quote ---OK, so why '\xb3'? What actually understands the \xb part?
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Minwah, hehe, you are using listinfo. NOW look at it in listxml! It's to make it superscript like in the movie and game startup screen. So far I have found nothing but html that understands listxml's output, go look at the game supported page on controls.dat. HowardC's DK and Johnny5 don't understand. IE chokes on it. Mozilla show a | or a ?. It's rather annoying!
--- Quote ---I mean how bad is 'Alien3: The Gun'?
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I know, go read mame.net's forums! This will stick, unless maybe enough people will complain about it. Though, coding wise, it isn't a big problem to get around. But I think these latest releases the mame devs just wanted to piss off FE devs :)
Yeah lokki, I know, that's why I brought it up.
Minwah:
SirP, I just noticed something interesting...
The 'Alien\xb3: The Gun' I saw earlier at work, was after generating a MAME list from a DAT file, which I created using as you informed me 'mame -listxml|xml2info'...
I am at home now, and the list I have generated using my 'ROM Folder vs Listxml' method, which essentially does *exactly* the same, albeit the DAT file is generated behind the scenes...the interesting thing is that the superscript '3' DOES show up perfectly using this method.
I don't know why myself yet!! :D
Edit: I am reading through the mame.net thread atm...my connection seems to be very slow atm......