NEWS: Games Database

[Tom Speirs]

Spesoft is pleased to announce its latest in house project and sister site Games Database.

Games Database is a site aimed at 30+ retro video game enthusiasts, with a goal of being a repository for all available media and data relating to video games.

You will find live on line videos for thousands of games. As well as artwork, and information on games, their developers, publishers and the systems they run on. It takes a slightly different approach from existing games sites, with the data being based on emulation information, and available media currently used with emulators and front ends. It also provides media such as game manuals, system manuals and advertisements in a single site.

Visit the site at http://gamesdbase.com and please spread the word about it. Due to the amount of content, hosting is not cheap, so I would like the ad supported site to become reasonably known.

The site would not be possible without the help and development work from Ben Baker of Headsoft (http://headsoft.com.au), and tireless effort from the retrobytes portal (http://retrobytesportal.co.uk ) and emumovies (http://www.emumovies.com)

In the near future the site will be expanded to become a community and allow user interaction and contribution. Additional content is also constantly being added.

Feedback and suggestions are actively encouraged and there is a forum here: http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showforum=12

[fRequEnCy]

Spesoft is pleased to announce its latest in house project and sister site Games Database.

Games Database is a site aimed at 30+ retro video game enthusiasts, with a goal of being a repository for all available media and data relating to video games.

You will find live on line videos for thousands of games. As well as artwork, and information on games, their developers, publishers and the systems they run on. It takes a slightly different approach from existing games sites, with the data being based on emulation information, and available media currently used with emulators and front ends. It also provides media such as game manuals, system manuals and advertisements in a single site.

Visit the site at http://gamesdbase.com and please spread the word about it. Due to the amount of content, hosting is not cheap, so I would like the ad supported site to become reasonably known.

The site would not be possible without the help and development work from Ben Baker of Headsoft (http://headsoft.com.au), and tireless effort from the retrobytes portal (http://retrobytesportal.co.uk ) and emumovies (http://www.emumovies.com)

In the near future the site will be expanded to become a community and allow user interaction and contribution. Additional content is also constantly being added.

Feedback and suggestions are actively encouraged and there is a forum here: http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showforum=12

Congratulations Tom! Glad to see you release this.

[Adultery]

Looks like aq great effort! Nice to see things like this out there. Now can GameEx take advantage of the DBs like it does for MAWS? That would be sweet. :You could be playing a game for, say, SNES, and click the link on the LIVE page to learn more. That is pushing GameEx to new heights!

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks, and yes, it does have some potential for all that.

[Circo]

Looks Great! Can't wait to really dig into it, going to integrate this into EmuMovies.com as well!

[greatflash]

Thanks, and yes, it does have some potential for all that.

Looking good Tom,

Nice compairing different versions of the same game.

Great work and really looking forward to it's expansion.

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks Flash.

Could I personally ask all my other friends and colleagues here, to please spread the word about it on any forums and sites you visits. Id really appreciate it.

Cheers.

Tom.

[Tom Speirs]

Looks Great! Can't wait to really dig into it, going to integrate this into EmuMovies.com as well!

Thanks Circo.

Its very easy to integrate the search into a site if anyone wants to and theres no current rules or regulations about it. This is the bare HTML thats Needed.

<form method="GET" name="http://gamesdbase.com/list.aspx" action="http://gamesdbase.com/list.aspx">

<p><input type="text" name="searchtext" size="12"><input type="submit" value="Go" name="B1"></p>

</form>

And this is what I have on gameex.com

<img alt="Games Database. Find Games" src="http://www.gameex.com/Portals/0/SearchGames.gif" />

<form method="GET" name="http://gamesdbase.com/list.aspx" target="_parent" action="http://gamesdbase.com/list.aspx">

<p><input type="text" name="searchtext" size="12"><input type="submit" value="Go" name="B1"></p>

</form>

[bkenobi]

This might be a really good location to host controller files as well. There is currently no repository for a controls.dat project for consoles. If there was a wiki-esc entry where users could update the controls info (and other stuff that's not filled in), that would be spectacular. This information is usually available in the user manuals (which it sounds like you may be hosting on gamesdbase), so the information is available if people want to help enter it.

Great site already! Nice work.

[Adultery]

Is there FTP access too? Downloading manuals one at a time sounds pretty tedious.

[Tom Speirs]

Is there FTP access too? Downloading manuals one at a time sounds pretty tedious.

Only for you

Basically its not that kind of site, its supposed to be browsed rather than the content being used in front ends and the like. Thats what emumovies is for.

[Adultery]

Ahh, of course.

I'll see if EmuMovies has any manuals once he sends me my new login information.