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[jevansoh]

I should mention again, the original tetris.xml file with the @@@exe@@@ tags or whatever they're called (Symlinks??), that Mame works....But other systems don't.  So on that original xml, Mame will work but other systems will not.  It's weird.

[r0man0]

Are you sure that your favorite.xml have not game tag <exe> inside ? 

[jevansoh]

Yes, I'm 100% positive.  It's made just like any other wheel without any exe tag.

[jevansoh]

And again, favorite is working on all three versions of the tetris.xml, too.

[r0man0]

So your favorite list only launch Mame games , Right ?

[jevansoh]

Yes.

[ninja2bceen]

Great convo

Can you provide and example of a game from the favorites wheel like what are the guts for one game in the xml between the and game name for one game on the favorites wheel? I’m on my phone, and the theory of favorites wheel already having tags is a logical and excellent thought


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[jevansoh]

Here it is direct from the Tetris.xml file.

A favorite, which works fine, and a Mame, which doesn't work.

<game name="vstetris" index="false" image="" >
<description>Vs. Tetris</description>
<exe>Favorite</exe>
<cloneof/>
<crc />
<manufacturer>Academysoft-Elorg</manufacturer>
<year>1987  (Favorite)  </year>
<genre>Puzzle</genre>
<rating />
<enabled>Yes</enabled>
</game>
<game name="4in1boot" index="false" image="" >
<description>Puzzle King (PacMan 2, Tetris, HyperMan 2, Snow Bros.)</description>
<exe>MAME</exe>
<cloneof/>
<crc />
<manufacturer>K1 Soft</manufacturer>
<year>2002  (MAME)  </year>
<genre>Compilation</genre>
<rating />
<enabled>Yes</enabled>
</game>

[jevansoh]

Is that what you wanted, or did you want to see a game from the actual favorite.xml file/the favorites wheel?

[jevansoh]

Just in case this is what you were looking for, here is the first game in my favorite.xml file.

<game name="1941u" index="" image="">
    <description>1941: Counter Attack (USA 900227)</description>
    <cloneof>1941</cloneof>
    <crc>3abc0700</crc>
    <manufacturer>Capcom</manufacturer>
    <year>1990</year>
    <genre>Shoot-'Em-Up</genre>
    <rating>AAMA - Green (Suitable For All Ages)</rating>
    <players>2</players>
    <ctrltype>Joystick</ctrltype>
    <buttons>2</buttons>
    <joyways>8</joyways>
    <score>4.0</score>
    <enabled>Yes</enabled>
  </game>

[jevansoh]

I figured it out...

Weird characters are being inserted in the games that don't work.

Look at the game names for these two entries.

<game name="&#0032;Tetris Plus (USA)" index="false" image="" >
<description>Tetris Plus (USA)</description>
<exe>Sony Playstation</exe>
<cloneof/>
<crc />
<manufacturer>Jaleco</manufacturer>
<year>1996  (Sony Playstation)  </year>
<genre>Puzzle</genre>
<rating />
<enabled>Yes</enabled>
</game>
<game name="&#0032;&#0032;Tetris Worlds (USA)" index="false" image="" >
<description>Tetris Worlds (USA)</description>
<exe>Sony Playstation 2</exe>
<cloneof/>
<crc />
<manufacturer>Blue Planet Software</manufacturer>
<year>2002  (Sony Playstation 2)  </year>
<genre>Puzzle</genre>
<rating />
<enabled>Yes</enabled>
</game>

See these characters, "&#0032;Tetris Plus (USA)", in front of the game name.

That's why it's not working.

Now, the question is, why are those characters being inserted and can we get the program to NOT insert those characters so everything works ok?

Thanks,

--J

[jevansoh]

To be clear, I manually removed those characters from a Mame entry and tested.  It worked fine.

So can we figure out what's causing them to be inserted and make that not happen?

[ninja2bceen]

So to replicate this, I make a Tetris wheel and which games errored out and for what system? Just one or two should be good, I can test my set up, it worked flawlessly on mine during testing


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[jevansoh]

I think it might have something to do with duplicate names.  Take a look at the example I gave above of a Tetris game that worked, from Favorite, and one that didn't work, from Mame.  Everything in Favorite is actually in Mame, too, and if it compiles the db in alphabetical order, Favorite comes before Mame, so by the time it gets to Mame, it sees a duplicate name so it inserts those characters which in the error is equal to a space.  The error said, for instance, " Tetris not found, no roms found in rom path...." or something like that, but anyway, note the space after the first quote. 

Those characters which are equal to the space aren't needed any more and need to be removed in order for this to work.

Does that make sense?

[jevansoh]

To answer your question specifically, though, I gave an example above of a working and non-working game.  You won't have a favorite wheel, but basically, any game with the exact same name between two different wheels should have the error.  A lot of the Tetris games have the exact same name.

[jevansoh]

There was a N64 and a PS2 Tetris game that didn't work, too.  You should have those.

[ninja2bceen]

Interesting ya I’ll wanna check this, Tetris could be a radars thing where’d games have the exact title lol


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[jevansoh]

I hope Ramono is following and can fix this, because it would be very time consuming to manually remove those characters from every database...

[ninja2bceen]

Tetris plus (USA) for Sega Saturn worked for me as well as for psx Tetris plus (USA) all worked fine for me*note this is the beta version I tested for romano before this release


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[jevansoh]

I have no idea why my system is doing it, then.  No clue.

[r0man0]

Ok i have to fix that because rocket launcher not allows Space char. All my  successfully tests have been made with hyperlaunch only.

[jevansoh]

So you're able to fix it for me?  That would be great!!

[jevansoh]

Any updates?

[ninja2bceen]

He’s reached out to RocketLaunchers team for advice but I’m sure he’ll think of something’s worse case you could use the prior exe maybe? I don’t have any issues but maybe the priority of game name isn’t in my version


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[jevansoh]

That's good to hear.  I hate to say it, though, but I haven't had much luck on the RL forum getting folks to respond.  I hope he has better luck than me.

If those characters and that space weren't put in there, I believe it would work fine, though.

Unfortunately, I can't use the prior version, because that version didn't work either.  I got no error message, but instead, it would just sit there when I'd press enter to go to a game.  Nothing would happen.  No error message.  No nothing.  About half the systems worked and about half would just sit there.

Thanks,

--J