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MESSinfo 0.165
#344529 - 08/29/15 04:26 PM
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Update for 0.165 version, this is the web page for download: progetto-SNAPS MESSINFO.DAT.
Clean version with no additional files, can be found here: progetto-SNAPS Naked MESSINFO.DAT.
Changelog:
* 9.18 29/08/2015: Aligned files to 0.165 version. Fixed some typos error. Updated this files: 'sourcechanges.txt', 'changelog.txt', 'alltimesMESS.txt', 'Drivers SVN...txt', 'supportedMEDIA.txt' and 'Index of Devices'. Updated the SVN until August 26, 2015 (r40488). Added other authors (93% right); fixed other various typos error.
* 9.17 26/08/2015: Updated "messnoinfosets_?.txt" file to 0.165 version.
* 9.16 15/08/2015: Fixed typos error in: "alltimesMESS.txt", "changelog.txt" and "sourcechanges.txt" (thanks to Stiletto).
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Re: MESSinfo 0.165
[Re: AntoPISA]
#344720 - 09/03/15 12:24 PM
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Re: MESSinfo 0.165
[Re: AntoPISA]
#344724 - 09/03/15 01:18 PM
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Would you believe me if I said I just found out about this file ?
They are for non-arcade machines only ? No software list games in them, just MESS machines ?
I'll add support for this file in Emu Loader. To search info on this file, category_home.ini file will be required though (so EL can properly tag non-arcade machines in the games list).
Sadly, I can't show Unicode text in the RichEdit control.
What is the difference between the Unicode and the Windows files ? Just the format of the file (and of course, Unicode texts).
EL can open and read Unicode saved files and I assume that game entries tags use the same as mameinfo.dat. EL can detect game entries with $info=machine_name $mame starting tags and $end ending tag.
... and driver entries as well with the $drv tag.
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Re: MESSinfo 0.165
[Re: Robbbert]
#344725 - 09/03/15 01:21 PM
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Excuse me, but what is the purpose of messinfo.dat?
It's just a straight dump of the source code from what I can see.
Also, it's in Unix format, so no use for MESSUI and other Windows programs.
After converting it with Wordpad, MESSUI still ignored it because it's an unknown format.
I could understand if it was a MESS version of mameinfo.dat, but at the moment I'm not sure what the intention is.
The purpose is to give information on the various machines emulated by the MESS (now part of MAME).
The file format is Windows 1252 (ANSI) not Unix.
I still did some tests and some validators reported was "unknown format"; I then re-encoded the file again - now online.
I see, however, that is no longer recognized by MESSUI (version 0.164); as you can see up to 0.163 display it is correct; perhaps there is a bug in the last two versions?
Look at the picture below...
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Edited by AntoPISA (09/03/15 05:46 PM)
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Re: MESSinfo 0.165
[Re: AntoPISA]
#344774 - 09/05/15 02:16 PM
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> I worked out that when I use AlZip to extract messinfo.dat from the file downloaded
> from your site, it actually extracted some other file. There's no way I can get the
> proper file out of your 7z. I don't suppose you could just zip it up for me and
> attach it here? (I don't want those other files.)
Weird, you should probably use a different ZIP program. Anyhow, he uses nested compression for maximum compression. Normally you'd extract history.txt and ps_messinfo.dat.7z from messinfo.zip on his site, and then need to extract ps_messinfo.dat.7z with a 7z program.
Here's a standard ZIP compressed file, with much less compression than messinfo.zip.
- Stiletto
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Re: Here ya go.
[Re: Stiletto]
#344782 - 09/05/15 09:29 PM
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Re: Here ya go.
[Re: AntoPISA]
#344788 - 09/06/15 02:23 AM
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Re: Here ya go.
[Re: Robbbert]
#344789 - 09/06/15 03:45 AM
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Re: Here ya go.
[Re: Robbbert]
#344798 - 09/06/15 12:07 PM
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