Purpose

HyperSpin (and possibly other front-ends) present the user with a list of games for each platform selected. This list is populated from an XML file. HyperList (http://hyperlist.hyperspin-fe.com/) provides users with XML master lists; however, these lists are usually extremely large and more cumbersome than helpful for most users and painful to edit line by line. Users can optionally access a list of genres by pressing a button, and pull up all the games associated with that genre, also populated from an XML list. Again, these lists are difficult to edit by hand, where they exist at all.

This program allows the user to create a text file used to generate the desired XML master game list and genre lists for each platform, as well as the list of genres. Each line is a regular expression that is used to match against the description tag of the games in the master XML file. Each match line in the text file can match against multiple games. The user can also apply options to a match line to further zero-in on the specific matches desired. In addition to just match lines, the user can add genres, using the match lines listed under each genre to populate that genre.