Hi! Old salt needs help... :)

[IMBerzerk]

Hi guys. Been a long time! Wow, so much has changed. The forum and website look awesome, and GameEx has come a really long way. Still loving it so many years later.

Well, now to my small issue. Everything is working great... except I can't see any game descriptions for Commodore 64 games.

I've had this issue since GE10 and gave up on it more or less. All other emulators and everything else I have running works flawlessly.

I tried the newest version of GE, and even pulled down and dropped in the standard DB's. Nothing. I thought maybe it was my DB set. But the end result is still blank.

The Log says it reads everything, and everything is configured ok. All games list correctly and the C64 games are located on other emulators as a 'clone' game (IE Alien Syndrome)

But I still have no descriptions.

Thanks for any help you can provide. I can live without it, but it would be really great to have it working like everything else.

Also... so cool to finally have CCS64 working with GameEx so smoothly.

IMB

[greatflash]

The database for the c64 is far from complete. I cannot look atm but I am sure that even though there are a lot of entries, the vast majority lack descriptions as of yet.

[u-man]

I just tested my gamebase v10 on GameEx and descriptions are working, but I guess IMBerzerk use his own favorites or just a view C64 games.

The database for the c64 is far from complete. I cannot look atm but I am sure that even though there are a lot of entries, the vast majority lack descriptions as of yet.

no wonder, if there are over 23.000 games.. looks like very hard work .

[Draco1962]

Wonder what it would take to extract from GameBase and put into our db?

[u-man]

good point

[IMBerzerk]

Thanks for the replies. If I want to use the Gamebase DB, is it a matter of just copying it into the Data/emulators folder of GameEx? A few years back I went to great lengths to try and get as many games as possible into the C64 GameEx set. But for whatever reason that I can't figure out, I don't see descriptions anymore.

I use 3D Tic-Tac-Toe as a test as it's ported to several other consoles. I've checked to make sure the description is therein the DB, which it is, but nothing shows in GE. However, all the ports show.

I'll keep messing with it... maybe it's something really simple I'm not seeing.

IMB

[IMBerzerk]

The database for the c64 is far from complete. I cannot look atm but I am sure that even though there are a lot of entries, the vast majority lack descriptions as of yet.

Flash, how's things?

if you use the set I posted in 2012, there are a ton of descriptions. I went bananas working with that set and got a lot of them in there... now I need it to work.. LOL!

[greatflash]

Hello mate,

Yeah, I think I grabbed and merged some of that data. My problem with the c64 is that it contains currently 22976 games... so, bit of a muddle

3D Tic-Tac-Toe is in the database, though only linked with the GameBase64 name, "3DTIC-TA_00049_01", though, if you have a rom named the same, i.e. "3D Tic-Tac-Toe.zip", then that should also match up if no other match is found. Mind you, you are not missing out on the description...

"COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1984/06 (Issue #12) / game of "The Big 100" collection"