Catver.ini download the latest version at
http://www.catver.com


This file is for use with EmuLoader, ArcadeOS,  MameLang32, and similar MAME
related programs that need version and category information
for MAME games.

Suggestions or corrections are welcome, visit the website for the email link.

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01/10/04
Catver updated for 0.78
Some games that are now working also had categories added

11/15/03
Mame 0.77 released. Lots of big HD and CD images added, some work. Many of the
0.75 roms that have changed from non-working to working have also been categorized.

10/20/03
Mame 0.76 a quick bugfix for Yamaha sound and a bunch of gauntlet clones.
Still working on the .75 categories

10/15/03
Mame 0.75 released, a huge release, added about 300 games, mostly non-working,
but several beatmania and chd images were also added, a total of 5 gigs.
This release was so large and there were so many games that did not work that I 
decided to only categorize the working games. I will work on the rest and hopefully
finish by the time the next mame release is out. Out of over 300 games only 10-20% 
were listed as working.

 9/14/03
Mame 0.74 released, new MameDev rules removed a few games, added a few too.

9/4/03
Mame 0.73 released

8/09/03
Mame 0.72 released

07/04/03
Mame 0.71 released

6/11/03
New Mame, New Catver.

5/30/03
Thanks to Doggie for the following fixes
I'm Doogle and a MAME32 Plus! user.

There are Category.ini & Version.ini files in this MAME,
It seems to be composed of CatVer.ini file.

So i found out missing (?) choice in Category folder.

First,

"tkmmpzdm"=[Tetris]
 > ex), "tetris"=[Puzzle / Tetris]
I think, it is valider to put it in [Puzzle / Tetris] than [Tetris].
Do you?


"othldrby"=[Sports / HorseRace]
>This game is Othello. That's exactly right.
So I think, it is valider to put it in [Puzzle] than [Sports / HorseRace].

And next,

"hanamai","hnkochou","hanaawas","hanayayoi","hnfubuki"
,"gionbana","hanaoji"=[Mahjong]
>They are called (Hanafuda).
Hanafuda is Japanese card game, and it is not mah-jong.
So, it is better to put it in [Cards] or [Adult / Cards].

"shanghai","shangha2","shangha3","daitorid","lastfort","lastfero","toride2g"
=[Mahjong]
>They are not mah-jong. and better to put it in [Puzzle].
But i think, Only "lastfero" may be better to put it in [Adult / Puzzle].


"pairsten","niyanpai","sichuan2","sichuana","shisen","matchit"=[Adult /
Mahjong]
>I think, it is better to put it in [Adult / Puzzle].
They are not mah-jong too. Do you?

"maiko"=[Adult / Mahjong]
>This is Hanafuda Game. So, put it in [Adult / Cards].



5/15/03
New Mame released with lots of new games and a new .CHD HD image
for area51mx

5/11/03
bubl2000 changed from Puzzle to Adult/Puzzle after naked girls showed up,
same for:
3kokushi (Sankokushi)
sshanghb (Super Shanghai Dragon's Eye (World, bootleg))
sshangha (Super Shanghai Dragon's Eye (Japan))
Thanks to Robert for this update

4/6/03 
mame 067 out

3/16/03
Thanks to Quantum Leaper for pointing out some old entires and fixes in catver.

3/10/03
Mame 0.66 update. 

2/13/03
The following were corrected

Super Dodge Ball (US)
Nekketsu Koukou Dodgeball Bu (Japan bootleg)
category: platform
Corrected to
Sports/DodgeBall
thanks to DAVID


2/12/03
Rad Rally was listed as Mahjong for some reason but has been corrected to Racing/Car

02/03
0.65 released and updated

1/28/03
Suprise mame 0.64 release
new data added

1/16/03
Changed
pcktgalb
pcktgal
pcktgal2
spool3
spool3i
to Adult/Misc instead of Sports Pool

11/14/02
Updated for Mame 0.62
A few games were guessed at since the graphics were not working correctly
but there were a lot of games added this time including the HD(.CHD) games.

07/22/02
Thanks to carstenklapp in the great white north who recommended these changes:
hexa - change from Puzzle/Tetris to Adult/Tetris
invho2 - change froom Shooter/Racing to Shooter/Space

Misc Categorizations:
bcruzm12 - change from Misc to Shooter/Boat

Moves:
targ - change from Maze to Maze/Car

Consolidate:
fastlane, headon, headon2, headonb - change from Racing/Maze to Maze/Car.
These games are more about navigating the maze and shooting/avoiding
opponents rather than racing to any defined finish line. (This change
leaves no games remaining in the "Racing/Maze" category).

7/4/02
0.61 out

5/1/02
Mame 0.60 updates are out. No HD images this time
but bunches of new games.

3/23/02
Added updates for Mame 0.59
Changed GunDealer from Cards to Puzzle

2/6/02
Added updates for Mame 0.58

01/04/02
Some fixes by BombJack of mame.dk, Thanks.
As always I enjoy your work and have used it already. I have corrected the
following minor issues though:
wgp and wgpjoya had the cat Racing/Moto, corrected it to Racing/Motor
sfz2a is defined twice last time without cat.
master/clone agreements adjusted on several games.

01/02/02
The biggest mame release ever, almost 1 Gig of roms.
Catver updated to .57

11/01/01
Yet another Mame release 0.56 updates added.


9/21/01
Thanks to piotrw for the following correction
correct category for mslugx is Shooter/Character
(not Platform)

9/18/01
Added updates for Mame 0.55


8/24/01
Added a few updates for the 0.54 suprise release.


8/17/01
Thanks to Piotr Walesiuk for some ver/cat fixes for bzoneadv, smbomb, sfa3, and doscof

8/13/01
Updated for the latest mame .37b17, no, thats not it, .38, no
that's not it either, Mame 0.53, yeah, that's the one.

8/01
Corrected a version number:
	In the CatVer.ini v0.37b16 there's a mistake. The game Pleiads (Tehkan) was
	first added to MAME in the version 0.31. Not in the 0.14 as it's writen. You
	may see it in www.mame.dk

Thanks to Bombjack for a HUGE number of category inconsistencies that
were fixed: Clones with slightly different categories from the parent roms.

7/5/01
Minor fixes
edisonb pointed out that othldrby=Sports/Horserace should be othldrby=Sports/HorseRace ( with upper case "R" )
Unnecessary genra Platform/Shooter changed to Shooter and spelling error changed
thanks to BombJack



7/4/01
Added .37b16 updates

5/28/01
Fixed the version number from .37b15 to 0.37b15 to match previous listings


5/26/01
Updated for Mame .37B15 roms

4/12/01

BombJack found the following items that were fixed:
retofinv, wrofaero, xexex: all defined twice
Also identified by ditto

4/08/01

Updated for Mame .37B14 games


3/20/01
BombJack made some suggestions
> First a couple of cases with mixed case:
> HorseRace, HorseShoes, MiniGolf, PingPong, SkateBoard, VolleyBall, WaterSki
>
> Then a misspelling:
> Sking = Skiing
> Then a couple of small consistency suggestions:
> change [Unknown] to Unknown, to avoid confusion in the ini-file with the
> sections.
>
> change Maze/Racing/Car to Maze/Racing or Maze/Car, this is the only
> category which are split 3 ways.


3/18/01
Fiorani Paolo made some more updates to correct .36b10/16 listings
and to remove old entries of games that have been renamed.

3/12/01
Added Mame .37b13 roms
Made a few categories more accurate.

2/25/01


Special thanks to Fiorano Paolo for updating and standardizing older listings.
Fiorani Paolo suggested several updates:
> I've fixed some categories (I.E.
> pbobble2=Platform and many others) added some missing games on the
> categories and on the version added information and i removed some no more
> used games. I've added correct (I hope :) ) version information to many
> 0.34b?? games and renamed the others to version .34b? till someone find the
> correct version (they are many NeoGeo games and they where added from 0.34b4
> to 0.34b5-6 version, as soon i got the time i'll fix them). 

2/18/00

Added the new Mame .37B12 roms.
In some of the Mahjong games the girls take off more clothes the more
you bet, I listed those as Adult/Mahjong


2/8/01
Thanks to Randy S for the below corrections and standardizations:

[Unkown]-[Unknown]    - Misspelled
BaseBall-Baseball     - Capital B
BasketBall-Basketball - Capital B
F1-Car -F1-Car        - Trailing Space
FootBall-Football     - Capital B
Majhong-Mahjong       - Misspelled
Motor -Motor          - Trailing Space
35b11-35B11           - Capital B  (Must be a trend)
36b1-36b01            - Missing 0
36b2-36b02            - Missing 0
335RC1                - Typo.  
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1/20/01

updates for .37b11
ALso fixed 2 items noticed by Nick F. on old versions.

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12/08/00

Updates for .37b10

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10/4/00

The roms descriptions were added for Mame.37 Beta 8
I had some trouble determining if some Mahjong games
were adult or not since I could not play them long enough
to see. 


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9/29/00
The gambling games that were previously removed from catver.ini 

csk234it=Champion Skill (Ability, Poker & Symbols)
csk227it=Champion Skill (with Ability)
goldstar=Golden Star
goldstbl=Golden Star (Blue Version)
pong

were added back along with PONG!. To access these games read the info
in default.mwr.txt
For some reason it still does not show up in A@H but the description
info is there.
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9/16/00

It seems there were more adult games than first thought.
All below roms are now listed as adult


bigtwin
fantasia
galpanic
galspnbl
hotpinbl
magix
missw96
newfant
peekaboo
pipibibi
pipibibs
pkladies
plgirls
plgirls2
primella
sichuana
sichuan2
splash
whoopee
zerozone



-------------09/08/00-------------------
This is an update for Mame .37b07 with Arcade@home as front-end.
As each person updated the file they copied any errors over and over.
There were a number of games that had incorrect or inaccurate
descriptions. They were lumped with other unrelated games
or could not be sorted to be viewed as a group. Below are
the corrections that were made.
This is not a 100% fix of all problems but it is better.

Corrected Road Runner description from Racer to Platform

Corrected Toobin description from Racer to Platform

Corrected River Patrol from Racer/Boat to Platform/Boat

Changed adult games to Adult/* for easier location
	Gals Panic
	Gals Pinball
	Hot Pinball
	Puzznic
	Poker Ladies
	Ms World Nude 96
	New Fantasia
	Fantasia

Changed gun games from incorrect Shooter category to Gun category

	Cheyenne
	Chiller
	Clay Pigeon
	Combat
	Crackshot
	Crossbow
	HitnMiss
	Night Stocker
	Play Choice 10 Duck Hunt
	Play Choice 10 Hogans Alley
	Play Choice 10 Wild Gunman
	Showdown(was Cards which was wrong)
	Terminator 2
	Turkey Shoot
	Who Dunit

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07/04/02
Mame 0.61 is finally out after 2 months of waiting.
For some reason the latest mame produced some screen shots in black and white.
About 350 megs of new and changed games in this release.

Words of wisdom from sshangha:
"My stack of tiles! Think you can it?"

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