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General Discussions => Need Help? => Topic started by: ozy on August 12, 2014, 01:38:10 AM

Title: Hiding (region) tag in display list?
Post by: ozy on August 12, 2014, 01:38:10 AM

Hi, is there any way to hide the (region) tag in the game list?

For example, to display "Donkey Kong Jr. (Japan)" as just "Donkey Kong Jr."

Thanks, Ozy

Title: Re: Hiding (region) tag in display list?
Post by: mgalaxy on August 12, 2014, 03:06:03 AM

Actually that depends whether you're using a database file associated to your romset...or not!

If you don't use a database file, mGalaxy lists the roms as they are named and: no, you can't!!

If you're using a database: yes, you can!
It's just a matter of editing the 'xmlout.xml' file (the database file) and modifying the description tag.

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<game name="10yard" cloneof="">
    <description>10-Yard Fight (World, set 1)</description>
    <genre>Sports / Football Amer.</genre>
    <players>2P alt</players>
</game>
You're not using a database file..but would like to do so to fix your problem?
- Download an already existing one there: http://www.mgalaxy.com/forum/index.php?action=downloads;cat=1 (http://www.mgalaxy.com/forum/index.php?action=downloads;cat=1)
- Create your own one with the help of mGalaxy_Runway (sse picture > "Create database" button)
- Use an app called RomLister to generate your database (RomLister can output to mGalaxy database format!)

Don't forget to check the "Use database file.." checkbox in mGalaxy_Runway too!

Hope it'll help!!

Title: Re: Hiding (region) tag in display list?
Post by: ozy on August 13, 2014, 01:59:01 AM

Thank you for the helpful response mgalaxy! From this I tracked down a utility called ROMLister that can generate a database file without region tags (amongst other things).

It can be found here:

http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/