After some months of struggle with PHP and real life syndrome, I have finally found the time to finish my small project for a MAWS-like website devoted to MESS software lists.
Enjoy the result at http://www.progettoemma.net/mess/ !!
The website dynamically generates a page for each game listed in our xml softlists, including *all* the info contained in the lists themselves. And, of course, you can search through lists for a specific title, or a publisher or a year.
Plus, courtesy of AntoPISA snap packs (plus some additions by myself and Sandro Ronco), we display snaps of the games as emulated in MESS, when available. Plus, courtesy of arcade-history and its history.dat, we display the history info for neogeo games
The content is not so rich at the moment (lot of systems have no snaps nor history), but if you want to contribute with snaps and/or history-like info, just contact me and I'm sure we will be able to work together to make the website richer and richer!!
Finally, notice that at the moment the website won't contain pages devoted to the systems emulated by MESS: the focus is only on the software lists! In future, I plan to add support for systems pages, but for the moment you have to refer to our MESS Wiki for this kind of info
p.s. a *huge* thanks goes to s_bastian both for hosting the site and for the PHP help he provided. Thanks mate!
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