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Re: History.dat, the XML
12/31/20 03:02 PM
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What do you think of structuring the entries, which currently have very regular sections but are a long flat text? The current text element could be split into various elements, some possibly repeatable, in arbitrary order (a frontend can sort and hide them and reconstruct headings)
Example:
Quote:
<entry>
<software>
<item list="nes" name="100mandk" />
</software>
<text>Nintendo Famicom cart. published 32 years ago:</text>
<name>
100万＄キッド 幻の帝王編 (c) 1988 Sofel.
($1,000,000 Kid - Maboroshi no Teiou-Hen)
</name>
<text>Based on the manga series $1,000,000 Kid by Yuki Ishigaki.</text>
<technical>
Game ID: SFL-KP
</technical>
<trivia>$1,000,000 Kid was released on January 6, 1989 in Japan (even if titlescreen says 1988).
</trivia>
<trivia>
Exported as "Casino Kid [Model NES-KP-USA]" in North America.
</trivia>
<staff>
CG Design: Tadao Nomura (T. Nomura), Natural
Music: Toshio Murai
Programmer: Hirokazu Sugisaka (H. Sugisaka), Kazu Takahashi (K. Takahashi), Yukiyasu Kutsuna (Y. Kutsuna), Masayoshi Shinohara (M. Sinohara), M. Takahashi, Kazuyuki Oka, Nobu Saito (N. Saito)
Director: Masanori Iwamoto (M. Iwamoto), Fred K. Ishii (Fred Ishii), Marie Atake
Producer: Yuji Yamaguchi (Y. Yamaguchi)
President: Takeshi Iga
</staff>
<contribute>Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=83855&o=2</contribute>
</entry>
Entries could be even more structured, particularly with references between entities: games to people, games to companies, games to other games (from the series section and in "see also" links), etc. But it would require a large data entry effort.
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