by ecc » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:57 am
@Wanderer and RomCenter
I today again see an visitor in my logs comming from this thread written Mon May 15, 2006 11:05 am

Long time ago. If you want, you can remove this tread. Looks like an big crossite promotion. But at this time i wrote ecc, it was only a prototye

Sometimes i think, XML-Style format is mutch better. But i also think, xml files are very big and have an to big overhead. The CM Format is mutch smaller, but is not really good parsable, i think. I´ve implemente rom auditing for MAME and the arcade platforms, and parsing was hard work for me. Do you know, where the format of the CM-Dat file arrays are from? Is this an known format parsable in some languages like C ?
In RC 3, there will be an complete own xml-based datfile format, or also the old RC and CM datfiles?
Regards,
Andreas
@Wanderer and RomCenter
I today again see an visitor in my logs comming from this thread written Mon May 15, 2006 11:05 am :-) Long time ago. If you want, you can remove this tread. Looks like an big crossite promotion. But at this time i wrote ecc, it was only a prototye :) Sometimes i think, XML-Style format is mutch better. But i also think, xml files are very big and have an to big overhead. The CM Format is mutch smaller, but is not really good parsable, i think. I´ve implemente rom auditing for MAME and the arcade platforms, and parsing was hard work for me. Do you know, where the format of the CM-Dat file arrays are from? Is this an known format parsable in some languages like C ?
In RC 3, there will be an complete own xml-based datfile format, or also the old RC and CM datfiles?
Regards,
Andreas