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clrmame Discussion / Re: Dir2Dat issue with game names ending with a dot character

« on: 08 August 2015, 20:37 »

That's the conclusion I came to.
clrmamepro should parse the actual archive's name, not its temporarily created folder for checking names.
Take no offense, your tool is actually the best and perform exactly what it is designed for.
I just wanted to use it on a wider range of applications, like making dat lists of miscellaneous archives.
I understand that's it is not its main purpose.

Grazie mille.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Dir2Dat issue with game names ending with a dot character

« on: 07 August 2015, 21:03 »

Thanks for your time and effort.

Do you have a hint for the manual editing?
I've tried to replace the trailing dot with xml encoded character (.) in the dat file to no luck.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Dir2Dat issue with game names ending with a dot character

« on: 05 August 2015, 20:29 »

Thanks for the interest,

You seem to point to the good direction. When clrmame decompress the archive to parse its content, Windows OS removes the final dot at the end of the temporarily created folder.

e.g.: try to create a folder ending with a dot, Windows will remove it automatically.

I'll try to found a workaround but i'm not confident as it is for sure a file system limitation.

Thanks again.

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clrmame Discussion / Dir2Dat issue with game names ending with a dot character

« on: 04 August 2015, 22:24 »

Hi all,

I've recently encountered a problem trying to "Dir2Dat" a GoodPCE romset (v. 1.09a, latest).

e.g.:
<game name="Taito Chase H.Q.">
   <description>Taito Chase H.Q.</description>
      <rom name="Taito Chase H.Q. (J) [o1].pce" size="524288" crc="033e8c4a"/>
      <rom name="Taito Chase H.Q. (J).pce" size="393728" crc="97ff523e"/>
</game>
<game name="Takeda Shingen">
   <description>Takeda Shingen</description>
      <rom name="Takeda Shingen (J) [a1].pce" size="262144" crc="df7af71c"/>
</game>

After a scan, "Taito Chase H.Q." will be considered as wrongly named and clrmame will propose to rename it to "Taito Chase H.Q" (with no dot at the end of the title).

Is there a way to circumvent this behaviour? Possibly by editing manually the dat file?

Thanks for the help.