New WORKING software list additions
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Disney's Aladdin - Aladdin's Wonders of the World (USA) [anonymous dumper]
Nick Jr The Backyardigans - Viking Voyage (USA) [anonymous dumper]
Bert & Ernie's Imagination Adventure (USA) [anonymous dumper]
Lil' Bratz Dressed Up - Friends, Fashion and Fun (USA) [anonymous dumper]
Disney/Pixar Ratatouille - Remy's New Recipes (USA) [anonymous dumper]
DreamWorks Shrek - Dragon's Tale (USA) [anonymous dumper]
* Update vsmile_cart.xml: Fix parent-clone relationships
New WORKING software list additions (vsmile_cart.xml)
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Alphabet Park Adventure (UK) [TeamEurope]
Disney/Pixar Cars - Rev It Up in Radiator Springs (UK, alt) [TeamEurope]
Disney's Aladdin - Aladdin's Wonders of the World (UK) [TeamEurope]
Disney's Mickey Mouse - Mickey's Magical Adventure (UK) [TeamEurope]
Disney's Winnie de Pooh - The Honey Hunt (UK) [TeamEurope]
Marvel Spider-Man & Friends - Secret Missions (UK) [TeamEurope]
Nick Jr. Dora the Explorer - Dora's Fix-it Adventure (UK, 2005) [TeamEurope]
Nick Jr. Go Diego Go! - Save the Animal Families! (UK) [TeamEurope]
Scooby-Doo! - Funland Frenzy (UK, 2004) [TeamEurope]
Zayzoo - My Alien Classmate (UK) [TeamEurope]
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vsmile_cart.xml:
Thomas & seine Freunde - Freunde Halten Zusammen (Germany, rev. 104, alt), Disney's Winnie Puuh - Winnie Puuh auf der Honigjagd (Germany, alt title) [Team Europe]
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vsmile_cart.xml:
Alphabet Park Adventure (USA, alt 2, two chips)
Alphabet Park Adventure (USA, rev. 101, alt)
Disney/Pixar Cars - Rev It Up in Radiator Springs (USA, alt)
Disney/Pixar Cars - Rev It Up in Radiator Springs (USA, alt 2) [skaman]
New WORKING software list additions
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vsmile_cart.xml:
Disney Handy Manny (USA), Nick Jr. Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! (USA), The Adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (USA), Barney - The Land of Make Believe (USA), Care Bears - A Lesson in Caring (USA), TinkerBell (USA), Disney/Pixar Up (USA, rev. 001), Disney's Cinderella - Cinderella's Magic Wishes (USA, rev. 101) [skaman]
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vsmile_cart.xml:
V.Smile Jammin' Gym Class (USA) [skaman]
New NOT_WORKING software list additions
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vsmile_cart.xml:
Marvel Spider-Man & Friends - Where is Hulk (Smartbook) (USA) [skaman]
Software list items promoted to working
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vsmile_cart: V.Smile Smart Keyboard (USA), V.Smile Clavier Tip Tap (France), V.Smile Schreibspaß (Germany) [Ryan Holtz, PulkoMandy]
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vsmile_cart.xml:
Disney's Mickey Mouse - De wonderwereld van Mickey (Netherlands), Nickelodeon Spongebob Squarepants - Een Dag uit het Leven van een Spons (Netherlands), Truckie's Rekenrace (Netherlands), The Batman - De redding van Gotham City (Netherlands), Nick Jr. Dora - Dora's Reparatie Avontuur! (Netherlands, 2005), Nick Jr. Dora - Dora's Reparatie Avontuur! (Netherlands, 2009), Walt Disney's Assepoester - De wonderwereld van Assepoester (Netherlands, 2010), Walt Disney's Assepoester - De wonderwereld van Assepoester (Netherlands, rev. 123, 2007), Walt Disney's Assepoester - De wonderwereld van Assepoester (Netherlands, alt, 2005), Marvel Spider-Man en Vrienden - Geheime Missies (Netherlands, rev. 123), Spider-Man en Vrienden - Geheime Missies (Netherlands) [Ramco Sahara]
vsmile_cart.xml updates:
* Use VTech regional codes as game names suffixes
* Fix some parent-clone relationships
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vsmile_cart: V.Smile Tanz Mit Center (Germany), V.Smile Défi Gym (France), Gimnasio Interactivo V.Smile (Spain)
-vsmile: Added support for the Jammin' Gym Class dance mat. [bmx, Ryan Holtz]
Software list items promoted to working
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vsmile_cart:
Disney's Little Einsteins (Spain), Disney Manny et ses outils (France), Disney Mickey - Mickey à la Recherche De Pluto (France), Scooby-Doo - Misterio en el Parque (Spain), V.Smile Art Studio (USA), V.Smile Zeichenatelier (Germany), V.Smile Studio De Dessin (France), V.Smile Estudio De Arte (Spain) [Ryan Holtz]
vsmilem_cart:
Shrek Forever After (USA), Für immer Shrek (Germany), Shrek 4 - Il était une fin (France) [Ryan Holtz]
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Disney/Pixar Wall-E (China) [tenyuhuang]
New working software list additions (vsmile_cart.xml)
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Les Bisounours - Le monde merveilleux des Bisounours (France) [DisizDream]
Nickelodeon Bob L'éponge - Une journée dans la vie d'une éponge (France) [DisizDream]
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Bob le Bricoleur - Les P'tits chantiers de Bob (France) [DisizDream]
Lil' Bratz Au Top de la Mode - Complices, Cools et Class' (France) [DisizDream]
* New working software list additions
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Mission Pilote (France) [DisizDream]
New NOT_WORKING software list additions
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DreamWorks Monstres contre Aliens (France) [DisizDream]
* New working software list additions
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Avventura nel Parco Alfabeto (Italy) [tag2015]
V.Smile Football Club (Italy) [tag2015]
Spider-Man & Friends - La Sfida del Dottor Ock (Italy) [tag2015]
Nickelodeon Spongebob - Un giorno da Spugna (Italy) [tag2015]
Disney/Pixar Toy Story 2 - Operazione: Salvataggio di Woody! (Italy) [tag2015]
New NOT_WORKING software list additions
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Disney Cenerentola - I desideri magici di Cenerentola (Italy, rev. 1) [tag2015]
Disney/Pixar Toy Story 3 (Italy) [tag2015]
Disney/Pixar Wall-E (Italy) [tag2015]
* Marked "toystor3i" as baddump (nw)
The free-for-all on labels in software lists is not working. There's no
consistency, labels are getting excessively long, people are starting to
use non-ASCII characters in labels making it harder for others to type
them when manipulating files on the command line, and there's too much
markup being put in labels.
The length limit is 127 characters, same as for labels in MAME itself.
This should be long enough to be descriptive. Remember that the Win32
path limit is 260 characters, and many applications and frameworks have
issues with longer paths, including Windows Explorer and the .NET
framework. Labels are used as filenames, so concessions need to be
made for this.
I have not abbreviated excessively long labels myself - they're
currently causing 135 validity errors. Someone else can fix them.
Printable ASCII characters are allowed, with a few exceptions. The
exceptions are limited to characters most likely to cause issues for
interactive shells and scripts:
* ! - csh event substitution (very difficult to escape properly)
* $ - sh varibale expansion
* % - csh job control, cmd variable expansion
* / - UNIX directory separator
* : - sh path separator, Windows drive qualifier
* \ - sh escape, Windows directory separator
Most of the labels that had to be edited were using ! for markup, or
using ! and % for titles in labels. Strangely, titles in labels are
often forced to lower case, despite this never being enforced for
software lists. There are also various other edits to titles used for
labels, such as moving articles to the end (with or without a comma),
or replacing spaces with underscores. As I already said, there's no
consistency at all.
There is far too much markup in labels. They're even being used for
notes in some cases (e.g. at least one case where a dumper's name is in
the label). The XML schema supports metadata - use it. For example,
you can use part_id for an unrestricted display name for a software
part. You can also use XML comments for notes.
And while on the topic of metadata, vgmplay.xml is putting the same
thing in the part_id as well as the label. The part_id should have
the actual title, not the title mangled to make it more suitable for
use as a filename. Addressing this would be a lot of work, given how
large the file is.
For now, empty data areas in software lists cause a verbose message
rather than a validation warning. There are thousands of software
lists using empty data areas to indicate the size/width of cartridge
RAM/EEPROM/etc.
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Spider-Man & ses amis - Le Défi Du Docteur Ock (France) [DisizDream]
New NOT_WORKING software list additions
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Disney/Pixar Là-Haut (France, Rev. 005) [DisizDream]
Disney Manny et ses outils (France) [DisizDream]
Disney Mickey - Meickey à la Recherche De Pluto (France) [DisizDream]
V.Smile Mes Premiers Clics (France) [DisizDream]
Les adventures du Petit Chaperon Rouge (France) [DisizDream]
Oui-Oui - Détective d'un Jour (France, Rev. 105) [DisizDream]
Nickelodeon Go Diego! - À la rescousse des animaux! (France) [DisizDream]
Kung Fu Panda - La Mission de Po (France) [DisizDream]
Disney La Maison De Mickey (France) [DisizDream]
Get rid of a couple of copies of the CC0 text. Add header comment to
CC0 files to remind people editing them what the terms are. Also add
some missing XML headers. The header comments in layouts won't bloat
the binary - they get stripped out before compressing, same as any other
comments.
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Aladdin - Les fabuleuses aventures d'Aladdin (France) [DisizDream]
Toy Story 2 - Buzz à la Rescousse! (France) [DisizDream]
The Batman - Panique à Gotham City (France) [DisizDream]
Football Challenge (France) [DisizDream]
New NOT_WORKING software list additions
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V.Smile Défi Gym (France) [DisizDream]
Les Aventures Imaginaires d'Ernest et Bert (France) [DisizDream]
* New NOT_WORKING software list additions
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V.Smile Clavier Tip Tap (France) [DisizDream]
V.Smile Studio De Dessin (France) [DisizDream]
Walt Disney Cendrillon - Le rêve enchanté de Cendrillon (France, Rev. 205) [DisizDream]
Cranium - Le Parc D'Attractions (France) [DisizDream]
* Small format fixes (nw)
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Disney/Pixar Le Monde de Nemo - Nemo à la découverte de l'océan (France)
New NOT_WORKING software list additions
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Scooby-Doo! - Panique à Funland (France, Rev. 105)
Disney Princesses Cendrillon - Le rêve enchanté de Cendrillon (France, Rev. 105)
Dora L'Exploratrice - Les aventures de Dora Apprentie Mécano (France, Rev. 105)
DreamWorks Shrek Le Troisieme - L'aventure d'Arthur (France)
Disney/Pixar Ratatouille - Les nouvelles recettes de Rémy (France)
Disney - Les petits Einsteins - Le bal du soulier de verre (France)
