Database Questions

[starbuck]

Love the new databases. Now that we have them I have several questions.

It appears GameEx reads your rom folder and matches the roms with the database. It then displays the roms you have with the proper database names. Is it possible to do the opposite. Can GameEx read and display all the roms in the database. Then compare the roms in the roms folder and change the color to show which roms you have and which ones you are missing.

On my cabinet I do not have Access to conserve space. Yet GameEx still reads the databases. Is there a program other then Access that can be used within GameEx to edit these Databases.

I use Offline List to aduit my roms and download their snaps. Have never been able to get pics to work within GameEx.

Can the database be tied in with these lists to show the snaps.

Is there going to be a forum where we can submit information to be added to the databases. Within the GameEx community, I feel that we could make one of the most complete games Databases and further enhance GameEx.

[bkenobi]

There was a utility that was posted a while back that could read and write to Access DBs. If I remember correctly, it was posted in one of the threads involved in the creation of these DBs. If you can't find it, I'll take a look.

[starbuck]

There was a utility that was posted a while back that could read and write to Access DBs. If I remember correctly, it was posted in one of the threads involved in the creation of these DBs. If you can't find it, I'll take a look.

Have the program, but may not be using right. Doesn't seem to work w/o Access

[LB11]

Love the new databases. Now that we have them I have several questions.

It appears GameEx reads your rom folder and matches the roms with the database. It then displays the roms you have with the proper database names. Is it possible to do the opposite. Can GameEx read and display all the roms in the database. Then compare the roms in the roms folder and change the color to show which roms you have and which ones you are missing.

On my cabinet I do not have Access to conserve space. Yet GameEx still reads the databases. Is there a program other then Access that can be used within GameEx to edit these Databases.

I use Offline List to aduit my roms and download their snaps. Have never been able to get pics to work within GameEx.

Can the database be tied in with these lists to show the snaps.

Is there going to be a forum where we can submit information to be added to the databases. Within the GameEx community, I feel that we could make one of the most complete games Databases and further enhance GameEx.

Actually I dont think gameex displays the name from the database. It displays the actual rom name. It just has a filtering system that will "fix" it to however you set it in the advanced config.

Tom would have to implement something do do the color change things, but if you run your roms through good tools or something similar it should already tell you whats missing. I dont think the databases are sufficient to show all the games. It has the list from moby games. So if there is a game not in moby then it wont be in the list. Also, just because there is a game on moby doesnt mean there was ever a rom available.

I was planning to start a thread for the databases do do just that. (adding info) And have t stickied. Just never started it.

The snaps should have nothing to do with the databases. It simply matches the snap name to the rom name the best it can. Even when snaps are named exaclty as the rom, I would have problems sometimes. You have to enable "find best match" or whatever its called int he advanced config.

[starbuck]

Actually I dont think gameex displays the name from the database. It displays the actual rom name. It just has a filtering system that will "fix" it to however you set it in the advanced config.

Tom would have to implement something do do the color change things, but if you run your roms through good tools or something similar it should already tell you whats missing. I dont think the databases are sufficient to show all the games. It has the list from moby games. So if there is a game not in moby then it wont be in the list. Also, just because there is a game on moby doesnt mean there was ever a rom available.

I was planning to start a thread for the databases do do just that. (adding info) And have t stickied. Just never started it.

The snaps should have nothing to do with the databases. It simply matches the snap name to the rom name the best it can. Even when snaps are named exaclty as the rom, I would have problems sometimes. You have to enable "find best match" or whatever its called int he advanced config.

Isn't then names in the database the actual rom names. Guess I need to setup Access and check that.

I use goodtools and as they are not updated as often as they used to be, i'm always finding games not in the sets. Also there are lots of systems that he doen't support. My idea on the snaps was to add the name or crt number to the database and have them filtered just like the game name. Fairly easy to find the snaps named that way. Offline lists and a few other renamers have a large number of systems setup and they are updated daily and automatedly dl load the snaps.

[LB11]

In the database there is a "goodname" and a game name. Gameex uses to "goodname" from the database to match any information in the database to the rom. It really has nothing to do with snaps. The snaps should be labeled seperately by you or download a set that matches your roms.

Sorry, I don't quite understand the question to help you better.

"I use Offline List to aduit my roms and download their snaps. Have never been able to get pics to work within GameEx.

Can the database be tied in with these lists to show the snaps."