[Scummvm-devel] NIPPON: making multiple languages and detector live happy together

[Max Horn]

Am 09.06.2007 um 16:06 schrieb Peres:

> There are 4 known versions of Nippon Safes. I'm listing them here  
> together with
> their language capabilities:
>
> Amiga Demo         -> English
> Amiga Full Italian -> Italian
> Amiga Full Foreign -> English/French/German
> PC    Full         -> English/French/German/Italian
>
> The multilingual versions support all the languages listed above in  
> the same bundle
> and display a language selection screen for the user.
>
> I wonder how I should build a description for the entries in the  
> launcher. Using UNK_LANG and filling in the 'extra' field with  
> language specifications yields:
>
> 'Nippon Safes (English/French/German/Amiga)'
>
> instead of the standard:
>
> 'Nippon Safes (Amiga/Italian)'.


So how about "Nippon Safes (Multi-lingual/Amiga)" ?


> This doesn't look good, so I am wondering whether I should add one  
> entry for each language and then completely remove the language  
> selection screen.

That would also be OK, but it might cause some user irritation when  
using the mass detector, due to the way how it "resolves" multiple  
detected games in a single dir: It simply takes the first one, and  
discards the others. So you should probably make sure that the "most  
common" version (i.e. english in this case) is listed first.

We could of course also enhance the (mass) detector. E.g. it could  
add *all* detected potential games (potentially leading to some false  
entries in the config file, but the user could easily remove those).  
Or, change it to ask the user in each case which one to use. Though  
that in turn could cause problems if there are many many ambiguous  
cases to resolve. Argh.

> This would help with the Amiga Full Foreign version, which displays  
> the same selection screen as Dos Full, but doesn't allow the user  
> to select Italian.

You mean the amiga version does support Italian, just doesn't let the  
user select it?

Cheers,
Max