Help on how to edit display name of a MAME Rom

[weez]

Is there a good way to change the way a MAME game is displayed in my List of games? I have used the function of omitting the bracketed text, but I would like to actually edit the names a bit more. Right now I have manually edited the gamelist file located in the DATA folder. See example

Original File:

gtmr|1000 Miglia: Great 1000 Miles Rally (94/07/18)|Kaneko|1994|True|Driving / Race|True|H|320|240||[-LF-][-LF-]A racing game featuring classic cars from Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Mercedes Benz and more.[-LF-][-LF-]||2P alt|0|False|True|joy8way;dial;paddle||kaneko16.c

My Edited File:

gtmr|Great 1000 Miles Rally|Kaneko|1994|True|Driving / Race|True|H|320|240||[-LF-][-LF-]A racing game featuring classic cars from Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Mercedes Benz and more.[-LF-][-LF-]|43[-LF-]146|2P alt|0|False|True|joy8way;dial;paddle||kaneko16.c

Is there a way to create a table or .MDB file to have GameEx reference the change of name? This way is fine...however, when I ever update the game list. This file is replaced by the 'default' file.

Any suggestions?

[fRequEnCy]

Is there a good way to change the way a MAME game is displayed in my List of games? I have used the function of omitting the bracketed text, but I would like to actually edit the names a bit more. Right now I have manually edited the gamelist file located in the DATA folder. See example

Original File:

gtmr|1000 Miglia: Great 1000 Miles Rally (94/07/18)|Kaneko|1994|True|Driving / Race|True|H|320|240||[-LF-][-LF-]A racing game featuring classic cars from Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Mercedes Benz and more.[-LF-][-LF-]||2P alt|0|False|True|joy8way;dial;paddle||kaneko16.c

My Edited File:

gtmr|Great 1000 Miles Rally|Kaneko|1994|True|Driving / Race|True|H|320|240||[-LF-][-LF-]A racing game featuring classic cars from Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Mercedes Benz and more.[-LF-][-LF-]|43[-LF-]146|2P alt|0|False|True|joy8way;dial;paddle||kaneko16.c

Is there a way to create a table or .MDB file to have GameEx reference the change of name? This way is fine...however, when I ever update the game list. This file is replaced by the 'default' file.

Any suggestions?

And this has worked for you? If so then since you are changing the names to your liking the way I would go about it is to script something up to change the name for you based off a list. That way when you update your romlist you can just run your script and apply the changes. Not sure of another way since MAME is setup to generate the known name for you and GameEx generates the info based off that name.

[bkenobi]

If you custom compile MAME, you can probably edit how MAME outputs the information that GameEx uses for the update. It sounds like a lot of work to me though.

[weez]

If you custom compile MAME, you can probably edit how MAME outputs the information that GameEx uses for the update. It sounds like a lot of work to me though.

I agree after looking at compiling MAME again (HI-Score), I have come to the conclusion that it is easier to not update the game list. And in the rare case that I do update the game list....I can blow out the gameinfo file with my saved edited file.