06026: swa: " Arcade " is not necessary in the title of this game

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
06026	Documentation	Typo	Always	Sep 5, 2015, 07:57	1 day ago

Tester	J.J.Boy	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Official Binary)
Assigned To	JimCarlTay	Resolution	Open	OS	Windows Vista/7/8 (64-bit)
Status [?]	Assigned			Driver	sega/model1.cpp
Version	0.165	Fixed in Version		Build	Normal
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	06026: swa: " Arcade " is not necessary in the title of this game
Description	"arcade" is Only on 32X version. arcade flyer at TAFA http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=1077&image=1 32x cover at wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Star_Wars_Arcade_for_Sega_32X.jpg
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Affected Sets / Systems	swa

Attached Files	game machine issue 474 page 25.png (1,110,714 bytes) 1 day ago Uploaded by ICEknight Game Machine magazine (1994) calling it "Star Wars"

No.12011 Tafoid Administrator Sep 9, 2015, 20:48	It is universally accepted as Star Wars Arcade. I'm not convinced that changing it would clarify things, but I'll acknowledge it.
No.24209 JimCarlTay Senior Tester 5 days ago	Frankly, there is an earlier Atari vector-based game known simply as "Star Wars" (starwars), so also calling swa "Star Wars" is going to muddle and confuse things. The inclusion of "Arcade" in the title is enough to differentiate it from the Atari game.
No.24211 hap Developer 5 days ago	If there's 2 different games have equal game titles, we usually add company info to the title. Or form factor info, like (handheld) or (pinball).
No.24212 Haze Senior Tester 5 days ago	Yeah, the arcade version does not have 'Arcade' in the title, nor is it featured anywhere in the advertising material or cabinet. Arcade is used on the 32X version to hype up the fact that it's an arcade port. It should just be "Star Wars (Sega)" in MAME
No.24213 JimCarlTay Senior Tester 5 days ago	I've done that through a pull request.
No.24224 Robbbert Moderator 3 days ago	Pull request: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/15063 As is often the case, they can't decide.
No.24225 hap Developer 2 days ago edited on: 2 days ago	Yeah, it'll stay in limbo if noone can prove Sega changed the title of the arcade version, or doesn't retract their claim. I also find it weird that cuavas is against renaming the romset (if the game title gets renamed) when he's the same person that for example approved renaming niyanpai to nyanpai.
No.24227 JimCarlTay Senior Tester 2 days ago	To be fair, niyanpai to nyanpai is just a spelling difference (maybe the latter is a more accurate romanization of the Japanese title).
No.24228 hap Developer 2 days ago edited on: 2 days ago	I'm talking specifically about romset (shortname) change. If title is Nyanpai but shortname is niyanpai, one could get confused about the extra "i" If title is Star Wars but shortname is swa, one might think, where does the "a" come from, the A revision?
No.24234 ICEknight Tester 1 day ago	I've just uploaded a scan from a 1994 magazine calling it just "Star Wars" (also calling the Data East pinball game "Star Wars" in the same page).