MAME's History.xml
XML version now supported by MAME. We strongly recommend to all frontend developers to update their codes to support this new format.
The MAME History.xml is a file that gives you access to all trivia, facts, tips and other information for your favorite games and machines in your favorite gui/frontend. It serves information for MAME games, machines and software lists in the Info tab.
How to use it ?
MAME users: put the file "History.xml" in the folder called "history".
Please delete the History.db when updating the History.xml.
MAMEUI users: put the file "History.xml" in the folder called "dats".
UI/Frontend developers ?
Structure of the new History.xml, how it should be read:
Information for the mainlist entries:
<![CDATA[
<entry>
<systems>
<system name="rom_name">
<system name="rom_name2">
<system name="rom_name3">
</systems>
<text>information to show</text>
</entry>
]]>
Information for the softlist entries:
<![CDATA[
<entry>
<software>
<item list="softlist_name" name="rom_name">
<item list="softlist_name" name="rom_name2">
<item list="softlist_name2" name="rom_name">
</software>
<text>information to show</text>
</entry>
]]>
Special case (when an entry appears in both softlist & mainlist):
<![CDATA[
<entry>
<systems>
<system name="rom_name">
</systems>
<software>
<item list="softlist_name" name="rom_name">
</software>
<text>information to show</text>
</entry>
]]>
