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Assets needed for RetroArch - e.g. menu drivers, etc. Also contains the official branding.
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Rename FB Alpha - Arcade Games #311

Closed RobLoach closed 5 years ago

RobLoach commented 5 years ago

FB Alpha is no longer https://twitter.com/libretro/status/1131333664263086081

Rename "FB Alpha - Arcade Games" to one of the following?

Considering the majority of other playlist names use the system name, so perhaps "Arcade Games" may work.

baxysquare commented 5 years ago

In terms of name, I'm in favor of "Arcade Game" to be consistent with "Handheld Electronic Game." Would this effort possibly involve defining MAME and Final Burn as cores for that database/playlist?

RobLoach commented 5 years ago

I'm in favor of "Arcade Game" to be consistent with "Handheld Electronic Game."

Sounds good with me. Good thinking on having it match the handheld.

Would this effort possibly involve defining MAME and Final Burn as cores for that database/playlist?

MAME has its own database set. Shouldn't consider merging/changing those ones. I'll shoot up a PR to rename Arcade Games on libretro-database.

RobLoach commented 5 years ago

After further thought and testing it in the interface...

  1. Plural vs not-plural? Having it be singular seems strange in the UI. It's listing multiple games, but shows a singular "Game", which seems strange.
  2. Game? We don't list "Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System Game". Having the suffixing Game is implied.

Considering the two points above, I'd recommend just listing "Arcade". Here's a screenshot with "Arcade Game" in Ozone....

Screenshot at 2019-05-24 09-51-49

baxysquare commented 5 years ago

After reading your response and thinking about it, perhaps we should just call it "FinalBurn Neo." After all, we don't make a distinction for all the different MAME databases. We also don't label MAME as arcade, I assume because technically the core could handle so many other systems.

I understand the arcade ROM sets can be different for the two cores, but I wish there were a better way to display them in playlists. For example, I recently scanned a set that was split between FinalBurn and MAME 2003. It's so aggravating!

In general, I worry the user experience is bloated by all the different playlists that can appear after scanning a directory. I'd really like to see a bit of simplification and unification for all systems, including arcade. But that's not the issue at hand (and I'm a hypocrite for wanting Neo Geo rolled out of the FB database and into its own).

Do we also need to make a change to "Handheld Electronic Game" for the same reasons you bring up?

RobLoach commented 5 years ago
RobLoach commented 5 years ago

Looks like it has been renamed in the .info file to....

database = "FBNeo - Arcade Games"

Seems to be a good stop gap for now.