CDL best practices checklist

This is a checklist to follow in order to create a correct description.yaml for your cabinet.

• Check the correct file name: is description.yaml
• Verify the YAML indentation. Read the YAML information.
• Search for misspelled yaml keys.
• Verify the required cabinet’s parts and “Art” parts file names
• Add the md5 checksum if your cabinet have a rom. You can get your md5 here: MD5 Hash Calculator
• Verify the file name of the model (glb) it’s ok, avoid a misspelled name.
• Set the debug-mode: true in the yaml file. Verify to not have errors in the Debug information log file. Change it to false (or delete the line) upon distribution.
• Is a good practice to:
  • set the author key with your name information or Discord server user.
  • set the comments key with information about the cabinet
  • set the year of publication of the game
  • set the version (increment it to know that the cabinet was modified. Follow a semantic version system)
• If your game have AGEBasic programs on it, check the Debug mode and check for issues in the log files. Delete it upon distribution.
• Use ASTC textures when possible

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