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FE Devs, Do you have this problem with alien3?
SirPoonga:
I bet you xml2info is screwing up. As, if you read, the super script is part of the ISO standard. Should everything "should" view it fine.
Anyway, this will still be in controls.dat. I think I am almost ready to unvail the new system. The biggest change, for FE devs is the addition of a cocktail flag, indicating the game had a cocktail dip.
I gotta get ahold of HowardC tonight. I think all the Vs. games and Mahjong will be scripted in tonight. Along with updating the main database to .84.
Howard_Casto:
What I find EXTRENELY annoying about this game is it doesn't even show up properly from mame itself! open up a command line and type:
mame.exe alien3 -listdetails
you'll get a name of "Alien|: The Gun"
If it doesn't even show up properly in mame then it's gots ta go.
And minwah I discovered the exact same thing last night. From dats it works great, but the conversion is screwing something up real bad.
Btw, for the record this shouldn't even be Alien3
That is stylized text like Toy R' Us uses a backwards "R"
If we start doing that stuff then it's going to be madness and some game do crazy things with the title.
For example Arkanoid 2 is Titled "The Revenge of the DOH!" on the marquee. Even though it's called Arkanoid 2: Revenge of Doh by pretty much everyone.
Afterall it's "Alien Three" not "Alien Cubed" :)
Minwah:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 14, 2004, 08:40:11 pm ---Afterall it's "Alien Three" not "Alien Cubed" :)
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I was just thinking that :)
I haven't figured out yet why in my FE Alien(cubed) shows OK from a DAT which *it* produces, but if I use a DAT file which I've produced it shows as \xb3. It uses the same code to read the DAT file...I'll have to do some debugging and see if I can see where the difference happens...
Looks like the MAME dev's are not going to budge easily on this one. I actually don't mind it being Alien cubed, if that is deemed to be it's correct name (which is arguable), but as you say if MAME itself doesn't show it properly then whats the point...
Minwah:
Also, I was thinking last night that I'm *sure* I've seen game descriptions in MAME before and thought 'that's not the right title'...but I can't think of any examples right now...
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: Minwah on July 15, 2004, 04:35:36 am ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 14, 2004, 08:40:11 pm ---Afterall it's "Alien Three" not "Alien Cubed" :)
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I was just thinking that :)
I haven't figured out yet why in my FE Alien(cubed) shows OK from a DAT which *it* produces, but if I use a DAT file which I've produced it shows as \xb3. It uses the same code to read the DAT file...I'll have to do some debugging and see if I can see where the difference happens...
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Was this a controlled experiment :) are the dats being produced by the same mame in the same manner?
--- Quote ---but as you say if MAME itself doesn't show it properly then whats the point...
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It's not mame displaying it though, it's command prompt. The command prompt is not "up to code" so to speak. It has the old ascii standard, not he newers standards like unicode and western ISO-XXXXX-1.
Displaying isn't the main issue though. The main issue is parsing, some XML parsers are choking on the character.