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Well I can't see why we couldn't have both stored in the db...Access doesn't get slow till it hits 10mb or above and our biggest db is only 7.5mb (dos) so we have lots of room yet. Maplists while giving us the most flexibility my give us a performance penalty of some sort...since the maplist first has to compare its self against the roms, then for the db to compare its self to the maplist. Really need feedback from Tom as to what he is and isn't willing to conceder...as getting the entries in the db to work with the actual roms is very important...most every thing else is just niceties.

Well UltraCompare or the like would come in handy in making the names match....not sure if I could automate it correctly tho...but never know till I try. Thanks for the heads up on the UK rating system. Another question is do we make the names comply with GoodMerge, No-Intro, or TOSEC or some other group? Or do we simply suggest using Game Maps...err or whatever they are called. (having a brain fart right now) *Update* Probably the best would be to include both Good & No-Intro...each having their own column...I don't know guys I'm open for suggestions. Oh link to current collection is here: [linky]

Well I'm sort of an AMD fanboy...but I'd have to suggest going with Intel at this point since the chips are use less energy...thus produce less heat...which in turn requires a lesser of a fan to keep cool. Dual core I feel is a must for a HTPC...mainly seeing that you have two tuner cards...however you may...want to look at the quad cores as intel has a decent price on those...but I have a hard time seeing you ever hit the forth core...but I could see from time to time hitting the third. Motherboard...whatever tickles your fancy from Asus or Abit as I've never had an issue with those...well other than ones I caused my self. Ram...really any good name brand...and what ever will plug into your motherboard...just don't go cheap on the ram...I'm not saying buy a boat load of it, just don't buy the cheapest stuff out there...most issues I've seen on systems that weren't software related could be ether be traced back to piss poor cooling or cheap ram. video...I'd just use a good nvidia onboard...unless you intend to run the new PS2 emu on the system...but if you do go this route make sure you still have a PCI-e slot for future video if the need should arise.

Well making that switch is simple enough to do manual edits....simply select the "Name" column to where it shades all entries top to bottom then select copy...paste into your fav text editor perform a search and replace...then edit the first entry which should be "Name" to "GoodName" select all copy...go back to Access select the "GoodName" column like prior...then paste...boom changes made. I just never really sat down and looked at the differences...so I just slapped in my own personal naming pref...as there is no real harm as we have the original name preserved in the "Name" column..so such changes are an annoyance rather than any real effort. (ESRB) Yeah those came out before that rating system came out...so thus no rating Okay double checked...yeah its got to be because of your web client data...its a really not a big issue...I intend to automate looking up that data any ways to make sure its as current as possible...I'm not really a big fan of that rating system but it does serve a purpose for those that wish to use it...if I recall there is one in Europe as well...tho I don't recall its name.

Adultery- Actually these don't really use the goodname format...and I wouldn't suggest altering names just yet...unless you have backups. Keep in mind these are beta and subject to change...tho hopefully very little...and not to the point where things need to be redone. As for the Trash 80 comment its out of love...if you want to call it that...as it was the first system I programmed on...soon after the Apple IIc. bkenobi - Hehe well I typically also use the tag [Arcade] however I don't think Moby covers those. Stu - Question are you leaving out the ESRB on purpose or is it simply not showing up since your in Ireland...and the ESRB is a USA rating system? All - Well I'll look into trying to automate correcting the number of players a given game supports...as right now just a simple default value is applied.

ZX Spectrum in the works. Dang guys we are getting a very impressive collection going now.

In progress trash 80...err I mean TRS 80

Next up "[PC] Microsoft Windows 3.x"

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" )

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Well I'd say release what you got...as for people wanting more out of it...your right...I already do and I haven't even played with it yet.

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.

Sweet

Okay updated archive at top of thread....GameCube, Dreamcast, Playstation....GoodNames values have had replacements done ":" replaced with ";" and "/" with "-"

Hehe no...I'm no genius thats for sure...best score was 155 for the IQ which is 5 points to low...and that was some time ago...and with age ones IQ drops...so...clearly no hope for me now. Heh but thanks anyways. Your welcome...as for the db's...got GameCube done...but I think I'll start taking a look into db design and see if I can come up with something I like and can automate.

Okay Start Xpadder, then launch GameEx...then launch Grim Fandango This way Xpadder wont launch...which maybe screwing up the game...but will simply load the profile. Oh might be a little bit before I respond again...generating a new db for GameCube.

I think all you need to do is copy "Config" & "Data"...tho you should be able to just copy the whole GameEx folder to a different drive...then after the format & OS install simply copy the GameEx folder back to where it was, then rerun the installer to add back in uninstall info & shortcuts. However I'm fairly sure if you search the forum you'll find much better descriptions of what should be done and why.

Actually generally I replace ":" with ";"...I just haven't gotten around to it. I'm still toying around with the idea of expanding the data covered in the db's...which generally means I'll be redoing those...which isn't to bad as together they both took less than 3hours to complete, in their current form.

Lets see if we can get some common ground here...you can change things around later...I just want us both on the same page for now. The Xpadder executable is: Next *.xpaddercontroller files in: So for you it would look like: Next *.xpadderprofile files in: So for you it would look like: Now in GameEx: AlsoLaunch=c:\programme\xpadder\Xpadder.exe "c:\programme\xpadder\profiles\Grim Fandango (PC game)" /M LaunchAfter=c:\programme\xpadder\Xpadder.exe /C Okay now launch Grim Fandango and see if things workout correctly.

odd maybe try instead Also Launch: