Catver.ini won't load

[bjhille]

I'm new to Attract Mode, so please forgive me if I'm asking a dumb question.  I searched, but couldn't find a good answer.

I have my emulator setup and display (it's all basic right now).  I copied over my No Filler's games, put them in the rom folder, added my catver.ini, generated my romlist and everything works as I expect.  When I look at my romlist file (mame.txt), the Category column has information in it.

I wanted to load custom Categories.  I have all my lists in Excel, so I created a text file that only had the roms I loaded in it, used my custom categories (basically used the nofiller categories) and created a custom catver.ini.  I renamed catver.ini to catver.org and catver.bjh (my custom version) to catver.ini.  Regenerated my list and it doesn't work.  I copied the header information from the original catver.ini file.  Regenerated the list.  No joy.

Attached are my two versions of the carver.ini.
* Catver.org is the original one I downloaded for Mame.  If I put this in "C:\emulators\mame235\catver.ini" it populates the category in the romlist (mame.txt)
* catver.bjh is my file.  If I put this in "C:\emulators\mame235\catver.ini" it DOES NOT populate the category in the romlist (mame.txt).

Literally the only thing changing is the contents of the file.  Why does one work and the other doesn't?  I'm stuck.

Also, does catver,ini work for other emulators yet or is it only functional in Mame?  If only Mame, is there somewhere I can request a feature (hopefully it would get enough votes to be included)?

Thanks.  Brian

[akafox]

Glad I am not the only crazy animal out there that does all that 

*gives you a high 4!* (hey I am a fox no thumbs you know!)

your format is all wrong by the way..I'll attach one that should be fixed.

and yes I AM crazy. I have made a caver.ini for consoles as well and they work just fine..well they did..I deleted them *facepaw* but yeah a catver a nplayers.ini for consoles.

Why?

1. because I can make my list EXACTLY how i want/need it
2. I dont have to be on-line and wait to scrape
3. it's WAY faster
4 Because I can!


let me know if it worked okay!    and yes LOVE opening lists in a spreadsheet..total custom list!

[bjhille]

I figured I was the only one!  lol!  Yeah, I have spreadsheet started for my consoles as well, but working on one emulator at a time. 

OMG, thank you!!  I didn't notice I had "name.zip=blah" instead of "name=blah".  I should have caught that!

Thanks for the help.