SirPoonga: I thought the website was closed down because of lack of public support I didn't realise it was only down temporarily. I was looking at taking over the project with an offline version maintained using the new software I'm writing. Seeing how it's been so long since the last update perhaps we should try this approach? I'm also adding in colors.ini to the file so that will mean it will conflict with the online version. People are only going to want to support the one format.
So I feel like I'm stuck here not knowing what to do. I was pretty much thinking it was going to have to go this way to keep the project going. So what now? How much data is there that has been added to the website ready to be added to a new version? If there is nothing then I'll just take the current version and start from there. Are you happy for me to continue on with this SirPoonga? I was hoping u_rebelscum was going to have a go at doing a large update using the software or do you want to try out my program yourself?
First, I don't know why the website is down. I was logged in a couple weeks ago.
Second, how does colors.ini conflict with it. Isn't it a seperate file?
Like I said, I can add someone as an admin to controls.dat if they want to review submissions. It's actually quite easy. I do two things, I check the resource to see if it is valid and I can read the labels on the control panel. Then I check mame to make sure all of the controls mame says is listed. Make changes if needed and accept it.
Since the site is down I can't answer many questions because I haven't looked at the code an database in sometime.
I could add a verified checkbox when accepting a submission which will then add a verified attribute.
I could add in some code to import data. I could take the output of your program and add new entries, just flag them as not verified.
Only Mario Bros is they Play Choice game use one button, all other use 2 buttons (based on games that is on klov.com). Just look on the help screen, what the buttons does. These games is based on NES hardware which have 2 buttons.
You missed my point. I believe the UseService in controls.dat indicated games that use the service buttons. These are the buttons that allow you to switch games. See the lixtxml output from the game, service is yes
<input players="2" buttons="2" coins="2" service="yes">
<control type="joy8way"/>
</input>
If I remember correctly that is what this is for. But they don;t list how many service buttons and what they are for. I think we had to look at the mame source code to figure that out. I don;t have a controls.xml right now. What is the playch10 entry?
There are games people have complained to me about that they only have one button. What the manufacture did was put a button on the right and left of the joystick and wired them as separate buttons. So technically the game has two buttons that do the same thing.
My point of that post is you have to realize controls.dat may not be as out of date as some people think. Yeah, asteroids finally is proper and only lists buttons. That will need updating. But some things people complain about are not inaccurate.