Incomplete Mameinfo/History display

[ilgaspa]

I noticed that, altrought present and parsed when updating gamelist, mameinfo and history.dat informations are displayed only partially in the game infromation page of gameex. For example, the neogeo game "Last blade" shows only

Japanese weapons-based fighter featuring beautiful artwork and sound. Twelve selectable characters and two end bosses.

and then the raccomended games; In the history.dat file instead the text continues...

Japanese weapons-based fighter featuring beautiful artwork and sound. Twelve selectable characters and two end bosses.


- TECHNICAL -


SNK Neo-Geo MVS hardware

Game ID : 0234


Main CPU : 68000

Sound CPU : Z80

Sound Chips : YM2610


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 320 x 224 pixels

Screen refresh : 59.19 Hz

Palette colors : 4096


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 4

=> [A] Weak slash, [B] Strong slash, [C] Kick, [D] Repel


- TRIVIA -


This game is known in Japan as "Bakumatsu Roman - Gekka no Kenshi" (translates from Japanese as 'Bakumatsu Romance - Swordsman In The Moonlight'), and in Korea as "The Last Soldier".


Parts of Gekka no Kenshi was based off of the manga 'Rurouni Kenshin'.


The Bakumatsu period of Japan (1860-1899) represents the opening of Japanese ports to foreigners. The Last Blade is set during this time period and you can see Europeans in some backgrounds, as well as some European dress influences on some characters.


This game has a lot to do with Japanese religion. In what little understanding of Japanese culture, there are four gods in Japanese mythology : Seiryuu (blue dragon), Suzaku (red phoenix), Byakko (white tiger) and Genbu. Each god is associated with a direction : Byakko with west, Seiryuu with east, Genbu with north and Suzaku in the south. The four gods also seem to be portrayed in an identical manner : Suzaku is often seen as a renegade of sorts, Genbu is often wise, Byakko seems to be strong and Seiryuu seems to be the role of the protagonist. To this end, the four characters that are avatars to these gods in Gekka no Kenshi (Kaede, Okina, Shigen and Kagami) seem to fit the gods themselves to a tee (Kaede to Seiryuu, Okina to Genbu, Shigen to Byakko and Kagami to Suzaku). However, there may be one (unintentional) reference to the entire fighting game itself. These four characters may very well represent the four popular styles of characters found in nearly fighting game [...] 

Is this the normal GameEx behaviour? Is possible displaying the whole game informations? perhaps with a button, like for the marquee, flyer etc?

[Tom Speirs]

To answer your question, yes it is normal behaviour. If you want it to do something different go ahead and post in the feature request thread.

Cheers.

Tom

[ilgaspa]

To answer your question, yes it is normal behaviour. If you want it to do something different go ahead and post in the feature request thread.

Cheers.

Tom

Thanks