MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: MAME rom's description

> > I don't know if it's the right forum to make this post, but I think some MAME rom's
> > haven't the correct title.
> > For instance:
> > "House of the Dead" -> "The House of the Dead"
> > "Don't Ask Software SAM" -> "Don't Ask Software S.A.M."
> > "Cyvern" -> "Cyvern - The Dragon Weapons"
>
> It's up to whoever added the ROMs in the first place, most likely they haven't been
> noticed, otherwise known as They Just Didn't Care in TVTropes-speak.
>
> > And why the NES games' "Snake's Revenge (Euro)" and the clone "Snake's Revenge
> (USA)"
> > have "mgear2" and "mgear2u" as names? It doesn´t make any sense... I think
>
> Because the software lists generally don't follow anything, they were mostly
> copy+pasted from other sources such as GoodNES and given short filenames. Why they
> used mgear2 when the title isn't the same is anyone's guess, it makes as much sense
> as calling the Midway version of Pac-Man puckmanu.
>
> I am not a fan of the shortened regions e.g. "Euro" either, never mind the fact that
> there were actually two PAL regions for the NES, with some games not actually being
> released in both regions (e.g. Aussie Rules Footy is PAL-A only, while Megaman 5 is
> PAL-B only).

I'd recommend creating a MAMETesters.org bug for these changes, original poster, if you aren't capable of editing the sourcecode and submitting a pull request yourself on Github. That way it can be tracked better than a random post on MAMEWorld Forums.

The severity of such a change over at MAMETesters.org is rather low though, to be honest. Additionally, setnames are rarely changed for clarification purposes, usually more often to reflect changes in the relatively arbitrary "parent"/"clone" relationships.

General rules of thumb for MAME applicable here:
- "Name" field is comprised of the full title as seen on the title screen.
- software list shortname "romset names" often cue off of the arcade platform, using the element of least surprise, ie. Namco/Midway Pac-Man arcade, pacman, is named pacman on all the other console and computer platforms on which it appears.

- Stiletto