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Nologic GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Okay as I stated in a prior thread I'm working on doing up some new db's...not sure if Tom will use them when they are final...but what the hell. :)

These hold a lot more general data than the ones we've been using...so maybe in future builds of GameEx we'll see some of that data.

Well here is the current batch...and these currently are not meant as replacements for GameEx's current db's so only use them if there is no db for a given plateform.

Oh FYI file extension has been renamed from 7z to zip

[Console] Amiga CD32.mdb

[Console] Atari 2600.mdb

[Console] Atari 5200.mdb

[Console] Atari 7800.mdb

[Console] Atari Jaguar.mdb

[Console] Coleco Vision.mdb

[Console] Fairchild Channel F.mdb

[Console] GCE Vectrex.mdb

[Console] Mattel Intellivision.mdb

[Console] Microsoft Xbox.mdb

[Console] NEC TurboGrafx-16.mdb

[Console] NEC TurboGrafx CD.mdb

[Console] Nintendo GameCube.mdb

[Console] Nintendo N64.mdb

[Console] Nintendo NES.mdb

[Console] Nintendo SNES.mdb

[Console] Panasonic 3DO.mdb

[Console] Philips CD-i.mdb

[Console] Sega 32X.mdb

[Console] Sega CD.mdb

[Console] Sega Dreamcast.mdb

[Console] Sega Genesis.mdb

[Console] Sega Master System.mdb

[Console] Sega Saturn.mdb

[Console] SNK Neo-Geo.mdb

[Console] SNK Neo-Geo CD.mdb

[Console] Sony Playstation.mdb

[Console] Sony PlayStation 2.mdb

[Handheld] Atari Lynx.mdb

[Handheld] Bandai Wonderswan.mdb

[Handheld] Bandai WonderSwan Color.mdb

[Handheld] Nintendo DS.mdb

[Handheld] Nintendo Game Boy.mdb

[Handheld] Nintendo Game Boy Advance.mdb

[Handheld] Nintendo Game Boy Color.mdb

[Handheld] Nintendo Virtual Boy.mdb

[Handheld] Sega Game Gear.mdb

[Handheld] SNK Neo-Geo Pocket.mdb

[Handheld] SNK Neo-Geo Pocket Color.mdb

[Handheld] Sony PSP.mdb

[Handheld] Tiger Electronics Game.com.mdb

[Handheld] Tiger Telematics Gizmondo.mdb

[Mobile] BREW.mdb

[Mobile] DoJa.mdb

[Mobile] ExEn.mdb

[Mobile] J2ME.mdb

[Mobile] Mophun.mdb

[PC] Amiga.mdb

[PC] Amstrad CPC.mdb

[PC] Apple II.mdb

[PC] Apple Macintosh.mdb

[PC] Atari 8-bit.mdb

[PC] Atari ST.mdb

[PC] Commodore 64.mdb

[PC] Commodore 128.mdb

[PC] Commodore PET_CBM.mdb

[PC] Commodore VIC-20.mdb

[PC] Dragon 32¦64.mdb

[PC] Microsoft DOS.mdb

[PC] Microsoft MSX.mdb

[PC] Microsoft Windows.mdb

[PC] Microsoft Windows 3.x.mdb

[PC] Sinclair ZX Spectrum.mdb

[PC] Tandy TRS-80.mdb

[PC] Tandy TRS-80 CoCo.mdb

[PC] TI-99_4A.mdb

**Update**

The above listed DB's are attached through out this thread.

Oh anyone interested in pitching in, let me know...last I heard Tom was willing to give free reg's away for completed db's.

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Tom Speirs GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Okay as I stated in a prior thread I'm working on doing up some new db's...not sure if Tom will use them when they are final...but what the hell. :)

These hold a lot more general data than the ones we've been using...so maybe in future builds of GameEx we'll see some of that data.

Well here is the current batch...and these currently are not meant as replacements for GameEx's current db's so only use them if there is no db for a given plateform.

[Console] Amiga CD32.mdb

[Console] Atari 2600.mdb

[Console] Atari 5200.mdb

[Console] Atari 7800.mdb

[Console] Atari Jaguar.mdb

[Console] Coleco Vision.mdb

[Console] Fairchild Channel F.mdb

[Console] General Computer Vectrex.mdb

[Console] Mattel Intellivision.mdb

[Console] NEC TurboGrafx-16.mdb

[Console] NEC TurboGrafx CD.mdb

[Console] Panasonic 3DO.mdb

[Console] Philips CD-i.mdb

[Console] Sega 32X.mdb

[Console] Sega CD.mdb

[Console] Sega Dreamcast.mdb

[Console] Sega Master System.mdb

[Console] Sega Saturn.mdb

[Console] SNK Neo-Geo.mdb

[Console] SNK Neo-Geo CD.mdb

[Handheld] Atari Lynx.mdb

[Handheld] Nintendo Game Boy.mdb

[Handheld] Nintendo Virtual Boy.mdb

[Handheld] Sega Game Gear.mdb

[Handheld] SNK Neo-Geo Pocket.mdb

[Handheld] SNK Neo-Geo Pocket Color.mdb

[PC] Microsoft DOS.mdb

Wow. I hope folks appreciate the huge amount of effort that must have gone into that.

I would in fact very much like to include the ones we're missing into the GameEx install, if your ok with that?

I'll let you guys tell me if there should be replacments..

Nologic GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Yeah your welcome to include these by all means...and actually not a lot of effort on my end of things...mainly generated by a script I wrote....just couldn't use my system while it was running.

Stu1983 GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Cool I've been wanting some info for my Dreamcast roms :)

Whats the easiest way to make these mdbs? Surly you haven't sat and added all these manually in Access? I've been wanting to make a Playstation mdb

Stu

Nologic GameEx God (Top Rank)

Nologic

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Well here you go...secret is out now. ;)

Make a copy of " Blank DB.mdb" then open it in Access full windowed to where the title reads "Microsoft Access - [GameData : Table]" in datasheet view.

Edit the AutoIt script as needed...mainly proper url to a given platform on Moby:

http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/gamecube/

Add 'list-games/"' to the tail end of it so that line 4 looks like

$url		= "http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/gamecube/list-games/"; <<< Edit this to correct url "/list-games/" should always be at the end

save the file...double click on the file...then don't touch your system while the script is running....as its using raw sendkeys....so if the Access window doesn't have focus...things might get messy.

This script is considered mildly harmful...so use at own risk.

Nologic GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Oh if anyone does decide to create db's with this...please post what db your currently working on...so we don't end up lots of people making dups.

Right now I'm leeching "[PC] Amiga" & "[PC] Amstrad CPC" from Moby Games...two computers working on this.

bkenobi GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Oh if anyone does decide to create db's with this...please post what db your currently working on...so we don't end up lots of people making dups.

Right now I'm leeching "[PC] Amiga" & "[PC] Amstrad CPC" from Moby Games...two computers working on this.

Is there a list of ones that need working on? If you posted a todo list, I could get to work on them if the script is pretty straight forward (it sounds like it is, but I haven't checked).

Nologic GameEx God (Top Rank)

Nologic

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Yeah any that haven't been listed here thus far by anyone. ;)

A full list of what Moby Games covers can be seen here:

http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games

Moby doesn't have all the systems fully penned out...but they do have a lot of info that will go a long ways to helping us get complete db's. :)

This is basically the easy part right now...but I do intend to automate as much of this as possible for everyone that gets involved.

Stu1983 GameEx God (Top Rank)

Stu1983

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I tried running the Playstion section there but it's erroring with the date... it's trying to paste day.month.year but access is expecting day/month/year

I then tried the dreamcast section as well just to see if it would work as you've already done it but it's not working for me either it's having the same problem with the date

Is there something in Access I can change to let it autoformat the date and replace . with / or is there a filter missing in the AutoIt script

Stu

Stu1983 GameEx God (Top Rank)

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I tried running the Playstion section there but it's erroring with the date... it's trying to paste day.month.year but access is expecting day/month/year

I then tried the dreamcast section as well just to see if it would work as you've already done it but it's not working for me either it's having the same problem with the date

Is there something in Access I can change to let it autoformat the date and replace . with / or is there a filter missing in the AutoIt script

Stu

I've sorted the date problem by adding

$array[$Pos + 1] = StringReplace ( $array[$Pos + 1] , "." , "/" )

to the date section

so In Work: Playstation

Stu

Stu1983 GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Just checked how the playstation mdb was getting on there and the bloody thing has stopped at record 775 which is the last entry on the bottom of page 31 on Mobygames... is there anyway of me telling it to start where it left of?

Stu

Adultery GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Wow. I hope folks appreciate the huge amount of effort that must have gone into that.

I would in fact very much like to include the ones we're missing into the GameEx install, if your ok with that?

I'll let you guys tell me if there should be replacments..

If he ever gets to the Genesis DB you should replace that for sure. I don't care for the opinions on each game, just the read from the back of the box. These DBs are nice and clean. and I'm always up for new features if there's new tables on the MDB to add in, not to mention it would be nice and uniform throughout the whole GameEx experience... Just an opinion.

I'd love to help you guys, but I can't get the wrapper to work in Vista. Otherwise I'd be happy to tackle SNES, Genesis, GBA and NES (great to see the Sony PS1 in progress!!). Sorry. I must say though, the TG16 DB is much improved and so is the SMS DB. Great work! :)

bkenobi GameEx God (Top Rank)

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If he ever gets to the Genesis DB you should replace that for sure. I don't care for the opinions on each game, just the read from the back of the box. These DBs are nice and clean. and I'm always up for new features if there's new tables on the MDB to add in, not to mention it would be nice and uniform throughout the whole GameEx experience... Just an opinion.

I'd love to help you guys, but I can't get the wrapper to work in Vista. Otherwise I'd be happy to tackle SNES, Genesis, GBA and NES (great to see the Sony PS1 in progress!!). Sorry. I must say though, the TG16 DB is much improved and so is the SMS DB. Great work! :)

No worries! Between myself and Stu, we'll probably have them busted out by this weekend :D I'd have a bunch more done if work wasn't always getting in the way of what I want to be doing.

Stu1983 GameEx God (Top Rank)

Stu1983

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Just checked how the playstation mdb was getting on there and the bloody thing has stopped at record 775 which is the last entry on the bottom of page 31 on Mobygames... is there anyway of me telling it to start where it left of?

Stu

Managed to get it to carry on were it left off, had to baby sit it through the last 500 as it kept stopping but it's easy to start it again, you just need to find the page it stopped on and you'se that address

So here's the Playstation MDB:

_Console__Sony_Playstation.zip

Stu

Nologic GameEx God (Top Rank)

Nologic

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The ST was a PC. :)

Anyways keep them rolling I'm going to start up "[PC] Commodore 64" now.

Oh and sorry for not being on top of things but was out of town.

Nologic GameEx God (Top Rank)

Nologic

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Ahh sorry about that Stu...I was on my way out the door when I released the script so didn't have time to give a lot of instruction that would help smooth out the rough spots.

As you discovered the $url value can be set so the script picks up and goes...should there be an error encountered. However you can also change the value of $b on line 10 so that it picks up and continues from a certain link on the index page.

There is little to worry about changing that value as it gets reset on line 149 back to 1...so on the next index page it'll start with link 1 in table 3...or 2 if things go screwy...and line 12 needs to be edited.

Anyways with everyones help we should have a nice base collection of db's for GameEx here shortly, and everyone thanks for lending a hand. :)

Nologic GameEx God (Top Rank)

Nologic

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Oh you guys may want to add the following line to the very bottom of the script...sort of helps take the guess work out of knowing if its completed or not. ;)

MsgBox( 64 , "Finished" , "This Game Index has been Completed" )

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