> > The logic is that the European version is the parent, as in MAME.
> > If not available, the US version is the parent.
> >
> > what you experience is a problem related to the fact that lists are not split by
> > region , and this is on purpose: as the lockout message explains the program is
> > compatible with both regions and it checks not to be run in the wrong country.
>
> This policy seems absurd to me. Listing software as "compatible" as long as it
> displays an error screen when run on the wrong hardware and doesn't simply crash?
it's not meant to be listed as compatible, it's meant to be possible to launch them for debugging usage (because they are bitwise compatible) and I personally plan to eventually emulate region-bypass devices which will make it important to have them in the same list
You might also want to notice that we have a "compatibility" flag in the xml which prevents launching sets of the incompatible regions from command line when you skip the -media switch, see e.g. 32x softlist. but I doubt any frontend make useful usage of that, which is a shame (it does not help the fact that I never had enough time yet to add it also in popular systems like megadrive and snes)
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