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[AnnaWu]

Dear Roman,

it seems, clrmame have problems to scan the new MESS SVN releases which have now a new listsoftware (xml) support.

clrmame fails to import sets from the -listxml output (MESS.exe -listxml) :

Set
<no description>\<no setname> wasn´t imported!

The problem might be related to the new lines

<softwarelist name="gamepock" />
<softwarelist name="bbcbc" />

which maybe clrmame cannot handle properly.

If Fabio Priuli (MESS developer) take the listxml output and convert it to a clrmame dat by using Logiqx's dutil, then this dat works perfectly with clrmame. Hence the problem seems to be in the way clrmame parses the xml file, not in the xml output.

Roman, are you interested to add support for parsing software lists? If yes, you have any suggestions?

You can check the current discussion on the official MESS message board.

Thanks in advance.

Anna Wu

PS: You can use bobz automatic MESS SVN builds or you compile your own build for testing.

[Roman]

Can you mail me an example xml output please so I will have look at it later tonight?

[AnnaWu]

Can you mail me an example xml output please so I will have look at it later tonight?

Here the new full list in xml format of the systems (and their roms) supported by new MESS SVN builds.

The parameter on command line : mess -lx > new.xml
(SVN r7733)

If you have DL problems, please tell me.


Back to the clrmame problem:

These 2 lines were added to src/emu/info.c (MESS):

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"\t\t<!ELEMENT softwarelist EMPTY>\n"
"\t\t\t<!ATTLIST softwarelist name CDATA #REQUIRED>\n"

and are causing the messages in clrmame.

[Roman]

Actually it's not related to the software list tags but to some other line limitations. Will be fixed in next version.
However if you try to load the xml file into cmpro (and not using a direct import from the mess binary) you need to define a new engine.cfg entry like

engine (
   name MESS_DATFILE
   gamelist mess
   cachefile _messdat
   replace machine game
)

...but even with that you currently run into some xml detection line limitation.....as mentioned...this will get fixed.

[AnnaWu]

Thanks Roman for your great support.

[Roman]

ok...3.133 out...should work again with MESS.