I know that I can get a fresh history.dat from http://www.arcade-history.com/.
I can tried to convert it into your MAME.txt file format with:
`iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-15 history.dat > converted.txt`
However, that doesn't work. How can I grab and convert my own MAME.txt?
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* Synopsis for ROM Collection Parser (XBMC plugin) *
* URL: http://romcollectionbrowser.googlecode.com/ *
* *
* Platform: MAME *
* Version: 0.1 *
* Date: 2010-09-25 *
* Data Source: History.dat 0.139 *
* URL: http://www.arcade-history.com/ *
* Games: 5214 (clones missing) *
* Char Encoding: ISO-8859-15 *
* *
* Converted & Edited By: spyvsspy *
* *
* Many Thanks to Alexis Bousiges from Arcade-History, *
* to the ROM Collection Browser Developer Team, *
* and to all other folks which will take care that the *
* good ol' games and machines never been forgotten! *
Original issue reported on code.google.com by mdegu...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2015 at 9:52
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
mdegu...@gmail.comon 24 Apr 2015 at 9:52