[ATTN TOM] Mame problems

[sergio1968]

I don't know if mameplus count include mechanical games.

[sergio1968]

you're right Nullpointer, Mameplus count 9114 mechanical games.

but remains 20491 non-mechanical games that do not appear in the list

[JanGunheD]

I had the problem of games getting lost from the Mame-List when updating the list in GameEx. It turned out that this was caused by a "|" in the description text of a game in history.dat, resulting in this game (carnevil) being the last game in my list. After changing all "|" in history.dat to ";", all the games came back. But as I have to do this every time I download a new history.dat, this is not a permanent solution. The problem is caused by gamelist.txt using "|" as a separator between data fields, and if any data field contains "|" itself things naturally go wrong. When reading history.dat etc. each "|" should be changed or coded as something else.

[Adultery]

Not only are we aware of the issue, DazzleHP has been uploading a clean version of history.dat for our users in the download section each revision.

That will have to do for now, the pipe symbol is a common delimiter and the only real way to fix it imho is do a regex search for it if it's contained inside brackets and change it before GameEx parses the data.

/my 2c

[JanGunheD]

Ok, but that should be easy to fix in the program code itself. Just when reading a "|" change it to "***Special***" (or something similar) and when displaying it change "***Special***" back to "|".

[Adultery]

Yeah probably.

Like I said above, I would just do a regex search and replace it with a semi colon or something before GameEx parses the file.

But it's not my baby to fix.. I will make the suggestion to Tom however.

[Draco1962]

There was another topic for the same issue which I have PMd to Tom's attention so I merged the two.