> These have been fixed. For future reference, let me however clarify what happens
> internally.
>
> 1. drivers define the softlist name (e.g. "g7400")
> 2. the emulator looks for an xml file with the same name in one of your hashpaths
> (e.g. "hash/g7400.xml")
> 3. when asked to load one of the games of the xml list, the emulator searches the
> roms inside a folder with the same name as the xml file relative to one of your
> rompaths (e.g. "roms/g7400")
>
> as a result, the only thing that really matters is the xml name
In case there are situations where the tagging information does need to be different than the actual filename, If the rom manager would change the default setting of DatFile Name Tag to DatFile File, then it wouldn't matter what's tagged inside.
I've had it this way in my setup for years...
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