Help collecting Console info?

[liquid8]

Looking for help on collecting console information, and organizing it for use in frontends.. I have begun creating a catver file for super nintendo games.. but it is quite a lot of work. I need help in determining specific categories that should be used, and general standardization issues (format, etc)..

I am interested to hear what the frontend developers have to say on the issue, any suggestions, thoughts, opinions (including you Howard) as they would be the ones that would implement it.

I know that the issue has been brought up before about using goodtools names, but i don't see any other way currently. If such a standardization was developed, the information can be adjusted accordingly.

I am currently interested in collecting Company, Genre, Year, Simult. Players, and Clone information.

If you are interested, let me know..

While I am on the topic, I have a question.. Why is the category info (catver) seperate from the Mame listinfo?

LiQuiD8

[Howard_Casto]

Good tools is great, but setup the option so that spaces are included and not replaced with underlines.  Then even if you make a dat that uses the rom names as the game description it's still readable.  The ! crap still needs to be included (it's like the diff between sf2 and sf2j so it has to be) but any dev can add a turnicate description option like i do so that it optionally doesn't show up.  It's quite easy to do in visual studio langs, so there really isn't any reason to complain about the naming.... just complain to the fe developers to put a turnication option in

Something that might hlep you with the catver..... Assuming you've made a clrmamepro dat file for your roms (after you've renamed them with goodtools)  when you run my list generator it'll automatically make a dummy catver if one isn't found.  It simply makes blank entries with all the romnames.  It might save you some time, maybe not.