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prismra
03-13-2010, 02:21 PM
Does anyone have them?

I'm looking for SNES and Genesis primarily.

That Hyperion site seems to be down so I thought I'd ask here.

Thanks!
kegsender
03-13-2010, 02:28 PM
http://hyperlist.hyperspin-fe.com/
prismra
03-13-2010, 03:31 PM
I went ahead and did it the hard way. Didn't take too long.

I purged all the Europe games that have USA duplicates. I may have missed ones that we renamed for European release but this fixes the problem of having 4 copies of the same game right next to each other in the wheel list.

I also removed all the & instances as well.

Rename the attached files to .XML and place them in your database folder(s). (<--Can't attach, too big! PM me if you need these)

kegsender, the XML file there is the same one that is included with Hyperspin (unless I'm missing something).
SophT
03-13-2010, 04:25 PM
I also removed all the &amp; instances as well.


w3c spec for strict XML mandates &amp; instead of & and &apos; instead of ' that's why those are there.
Lashek
03-13-2010, 05:32 PM
if &amp; and &apos; isn't used properly, it can cause issues in any application that attempts to utilize the xmls. A perfect example of a test is to open it in your web browser.

If it fails to load, it's an invalid file.
prismra
03-13-2010, 09:46 PM
Looking over the XML files again, the games that have the &amp; in the game name tag also have &amp;amp; in the description tag. The description tag, being in quotes, can have a normal ampersand in it (AFAIK). The &amp;amp; is shown on the screen when you are going through your gamelist in HS.

I understand why they are in the game name tag but why are they in the description tag if HS is going to show that nonsense in the game name?
SophT
03-14-2010, 12:34 AM
&amp;amp;


shouldn't appear like that. Where did that get added? it should be &amp;
prismra
03-14-2010, 07:34 AM
It is in the MAME, Genesis and SNES XML files. I haven't checked any others.
Lashek
03-14-2010, 07:40 AM
Yeah, this is a bug I found a few days ago when overlooking my xml generator.

For description, it was getting sanitized twice when it should only happen once.

However, for the description &amp; should instantly be replaced by & in HS, it's the extra amp; that would appear when it shouldn't.
prismra
03-14-2010, 07:42 AM
Thanks. I'll make the appropriate corrections in my files for now.