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Excuse me, but what is the purpose of messinfo.dat?
It's just a straight dump of the source code from what I can see.
Also, it's in Unix format, so no use for MESSUI and other Windows programs.
After converting it with Wordpad, MESSUI still ignored it because it's an unknown format.
I could understand if it was a MESS version of mameinfo.dat, but at the moment I'm not sure what the intention is.

The purpose is to give information on the various machines emulated by the MESS (now part of MAME).
The file format is Windows 1252 (ANSI) not Unix.
I still did some tests and some validators reported was "unknown format"; I then re-encoded the file again - now online.
I see, however, that is no longer recognized by MESSUI (version 0.164); as you can see up to 0.163 display it is correct; perhaps there is a bug in the last two versions?

Look at the picture below...

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Edited by AntoPISA (09/03/15 05:46 PM)