MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Catlist 0.159 out!

I have no idea why some of the changes (star trek and lunar lander) got lost before the catlist packaging... maybe in one of the restores I had done while preparing the new "packaging procedure" I picked up the wrong DB dump.
I would not expect anything else being lost, since I went manually through most of the other reported mistakes and they seem ok

Anyway, the ones you reported have been fixed again, except for wpksocv2 that for some reason is not marked as a GAME_IS_MECHANICAL in the source. I will see why it is treated differently compared to the first game and I hope to have it fixed in one way or another for 0.160

> What is the difference between "Mini-Games" and "Multiplay", and between "Ball &
> Paddle" and "Breakout"?

Good question. Borders are a bit unclear and we went through a re-organization of these in the past week, so that for 0.160 the following apply

1. Breakout will be a category in the Ball & Paddle genre from now on, and it will be devoted to (of course) Breakout / Arkanoid type of games. The "root" Ball & Paddle will be used for games like Clowns or Jumping Pop, where you collect things while bumping on a paddle-like object, and a new category Ball & Paddle / Pong will be added for the pong-style games

2. Mini-games will be a category in the Multiplay genre, for games where the player faces multiple different (and typically short, whence the "Mini") games in the same session while progressing towards a "win". The "root" Multiplay category will be used for games where different levels consists of different genres of play (typical arcade example is Tron, but you can think to plenty of 8bit and 16bit tie-in games to get an idea). Finally, there will be a new category Multiplay / Compilation for games where at coin up you choose a single game among different ones (e.g. Pacman anniversary re-release or the chinese MAME bootlegs).

I hope to see fixes for these categories too, of course, but after 0.160 because in the meanwhile some fixes have already been done (progettoEMMA searches already implement this new organization

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