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Re: MAME 0.143u8
10/25/11 02:26 PM
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> several games in "gamtor.c" driver have equal sign in their ROM names. is this > allowed ? > like so: > game name: "gamt5"... Gaminator 5 (set 1) > rom name="gaminator-5-94=1 v5-6-0" > rom name="gaminator-5-94=2 v5-6-0" > > this messes things up with my frontend, Emu Loader, as it makes impossible to get the > CRC32 value (because the way the frontend is coded). > > are there any other drivers that have equal signs in ROM names ? > will this be a regular thing ? > > if there will be more games with ROM names like that, I will be forced to replace all > the equal signs by something else, perhaps the "minus" char. > the frontend, however, do not use ROM names for anything other than showing them to > users. only CRC32 is used to audit games (like MAME does).
So fix your coding, damit. ROM names should allow any characters permitted in a filename in a zip file. You shouldn't be depending on ASCII delimiters if you have no way of escaping them - it's a bad coding practice at the best of times.
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