MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: MESS parents/clones

> 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? How is that useful either as documentation or from the users' point of view?

In that case we should fold all the Game Boy Color games into the GB softlist, because they all have error screens that are shown if you insert the cartridge into an original GB.

I'm also not happy with preferring the PAL version of software as the parent on consoles (especially Nintendo), because the PAL versions were almost always halfassed ports that ran at the wrong speed and sometimes even had major graphic glitches on real hardware. But that's another issue...