05163: cannot load entry from compatible software when interface is specified

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
05163	Misc.	Minor	Always	Feb 14, 2013, 20:03	May 6, 2013, 05:45

Tester	Firewave	View Status	Public	Platform	MESS (Self-compiled)
Assigned To		Resolution	No change required	OS
Status [?]	Closed			Driver
Version	0.148u1	Fixed in Version		Build	Debug
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	05163: cannot load entry from compatible software when interface is specified
Description	Fails: gameboy -cart hazzard Works: gameboy hazzard
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No.09462 etabeta Developer May 6, 2013, 05:45	this is by design! to launch items from the compatible list, you have to specify the list e.g. gameboy -cart gbcolor:hazzard Indeed, you might well have the same shortname in the list of a system and in the compatible list (e.g. frogger in the gameboy/gbcolor case) and you would not be able to launch items from the compatible list. when you skip the media switch (-cart) there is indeed no way to launch frogger from gbcolor.xml into the gameboy, because the code just launch the first frogger occurrence which is in gameboy! For the record, forcing unique shortnames across compatible lists is not feasible because we will eventually support compatible lists in systems like aleste 520 EX (with cpc + msx compatibility) or the megapc (with pc + megadriv compatibility) or possibly more, so you would end up with unique shortnames across the whole project, which is a no go...

No.09462

etabeta

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May 6, 2013, 05:45

this is by design! to launch items from the compatible list, you *have* to specify the list

e.g.

gameboy -cart gbcolor:hazzard

Indeed, you might well have the same shortname in the list of a system *and* in the compatible list (e.g. frogger in the gameboy/gbcolor case) and you would not be able to launch items from the compatible list.
when you skip the media switch (-cart) there is indeed no way to launch frogger from gbcolor.xml into the gameboy, because the code just launch the first frogger occurrence which is in gameboy!

For the record, forcing unique shortnames across compatible lists is not feasible because we will eventually support compatible lists in systems like aleste 520 EX (with cpc + msx compatibility) or the megapc (with pc + megadriv compatibility) or possibly more, so you would end up with unique shortnames across the whole project, which is a no go...