> So, in anticipation of the future improvements in Z80 emulation, I've finally
> converted (after a really long night + morning ) the latest TOSEC DAT for Spectrum +3
> games to MAME's hash file format.
>
> Right now, the entries look like this:
>
> (yeah, maybe I should remove all those redundant "(+3)")
>
> Now all that's left is to add a unique "name" field for the repeated entries,
> selectively replace some instances of "&" with "and" (except for those in the
> "description" fields), and I guess trim some of those really long names.
>
> So I was wondering, what's the recommended maximum character length in this field?
> Among the 1000+ names, there's things like:
>
> ace2theultimateheadtoheadconflict
> actionforceiiinternationalheroes
> adidaschampionshiptiebreak
> daleythompsonsolympicchallenge
>
>
> Also, there's around 300 entries with names like "Title of the Game, The". Those
> should have their description converted to "The Title of the Game", right?
>
>
> EDIT: If somebody can make a script for doing those things automatically, it will
> come in real handy when adding the 20000+ Spectrum cassettes.
it is recommended to keep setnames to something 'short to type' as they're designed for commandline use.. so something like "daleythompsonsolympicchallenge" would be considered ridiculous. It should be "daleyoc" or similar
also, you don't need to duplicate the company names etc. in the description fields unless there is potential for them to be ambiguous.
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A headstart for spectrum_cass.xml
