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sandungas · 03-18-2012

Ada, i have been reading all your messages from days ago (public, private, and all your last edits in the wiki) and now i understand you most of what you said

I taked notes of lot of things that we need to discuss, but by now i know how to order the page better

The point is that all this X0/X7 are not real CATEGORY's... but in fact are different contents... we can say that are "subcategoryes" of HG... but this is not very intuitive (because subcategories dont exist)
The most correct way to explain it is by saying that are "speciall contents" identifyed by this "speciall flags" inside ATTRIBUTE

Because this... the better place for all this explains in the page is inside the ATTRIBUTE section... so i will move all X0/X7 related info there
It will be better to have all this X0/X7 toghether and not spreaded between CATEGORY and ATTRIBUTE

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I had no time to experiment or to see file examples, but now i know what you did and i can test some things more "targeted"

Im still not sure if the 4º byte must be readed as little endian (not in binary) because all the other combinations can be additions of the flags 25 (value 1), flag 26 (value 2), and flag 27 (value 4)
01 = flag 25
02 = flag 26
03 = flag 25 + 26
04 = flag 27
05 = flag 25 + flag 27
06 = flag 26 + flag 27
07 = flag 25 + flag 26 + flag 27

From X1 to X7 can be done with this 3 flags

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but you said you replaced all this files in the internall HDD to see them all at the same time ?

Playstation 3
minis
Playstation 2
Playstation
X1: -
X2: -
X0: PCEngine
X3: -
X4: NEOGEO
X5: -
X6: -
X7: -

this is the order you see them in XMB ?... when you press square are ordered inside folders ?... are you sure this order doesnt depends of the date/time when was installed ? (for this last question there in an option to order the contents chronologically in side menu... make some changes there to see if his positions changes)

I will probably ask you more questions later, but im going to order the wiki page a bit now

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Here are all the grey "mini-icons" (are semitransparent so are a bit darker in the PS3)
Are extracted from explore_category_game.rco (but also are duplicated in explore_plugin_full.rco)
The bad news (and the good news) is that we have all them... there are not more contents with "mini-icons" in "Game" column
The only one left in this image is "PSvita", but his icon has no importance, is not in this image because this ones was extracted from 3.41 firmware
The problem is we have "something" (1 or 2 flags) chronologically implemented before NeoGeo that has no "mini-icons"

03-18-2012	#131
sandungas Homebrew Developer Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: dev_hdd0/home/ Posts: 496 Likes: 238 Liked 497 Times in 208 Posts Mentioned: 100 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Ada, i have been reading all your messages from days ago (public, private, and all your last edits in the wiki) and now i understand you most of what you said I taked notes of lot of things that we need to discuss, but by now i know how to order the page better The point is that all this X0/X7 are not real CATEGORY's... but in fact are different contents... we can say that are "subcategoryes" of HG... but this is not very intuitive (because subcategories dont exist) The most correct way to explain it is by saying that are "speciall contents" identifyed by this "speciall flags" inside ATTRIBUTE Because this... the better place for all this explains in the page is inside the ATTRIBUTE section... so i will move all X0/X7 related info there It will be better to have all this X0/X7 toghether and not spreaded between CATEGORY and ATTRIBUTE -------------------------------------------- I had no time to experiment or to see file examples, but now i know what you did and i can test some things more "targeted" Im still not sure if the 4º byte must be readed as little endian (not in binary) because all the other combinations can be additions of the flags 25 (value 1), flag 26 (value 2), and flag 27 (value 4) 01 = flag 25 02 = flag 26 03 = flag 25 + 26 04 = flag 27 05 = flag 25 + flag 27 06 = flag 26 + flag 27 07 = flag 25 + flag 26 + flag 27 From X1 to X7 can be done with this 3 flags --------------- but you said you replaced all this files in the internall HDD to see them all at the same time ? Playstation 3 minis Playstation 2 Playstation X1: - X2: - X0: PCEngine X3: - X4: NEOGEO X5: - X6: - X7: - this is the order you see them in XMB ?... when you press square are ordered inside folders ?... are you sure this order doesnt depends of the date/time when was installed ? (for this last question there in an option to order the contents chronologically in side menu... make some changes there to see if his positions changes) I will probably ask you more questions later, but im going to order the wiki page a bit now ------------------------------------------ Here are all the grey "mini-icons" (are semitransparent so are a bit darker in the PS3) Are extracted from explore_category_game.rco (but also are duplicated in explore_plugin_full.rco) The bad news (and the good news) is that we have all them... there are not more contents with "mini-icons" in "Game" column The only one left in this image is "PSvita", but his icon has no importance, is not in this image because this ones was extracted from 3.41 firmware The problem is we have "something" (1 or 2 flags) chronologically implemented before NeoGeo that has no "mini-icons" Last edited by sandungas; 03-19-2012 at 01:30 AM.