Gamebase Playable games

[sprudel]

Hi all!

Another Gamebase issue: currently Gameex shows all the games available in the Gamebase.

Maybe it would be better to show only the playable games.

There are some gamebase packs around which include less playable games than registered games in the database.

What could I do?

Thanks in advance.

Sprudel

[AlphaUMi]

Unfortunately again, I think the answer is: no. Definitely we should ask Tom, when he has time and desire, if he's planning to expand the Gamebase functionality in GameEx.

Maybe a post in the "Requested features" would be the best thing to do.

[Draco1962]

Keep in mind I am about to show my ignorance as I do not currently have Gamebase up and running through GameEx or otherwise. When running Gamebase outside of GameEx, does it show a list of available games and, if so, only those games one has in possession? Does Gamebase differentiate between playable and non-playable games on its own?

Unfortunately, the GameEx functionality defaults to Gamebase to display and access the programs within. If the answer to either of the questions above is No, then I don't see that this would be possible.

[AlphaUMi]

Well, Gamebase does not differentiate between games you have and games you haven't. Basically, you can configure your own database with your games from scratch, set your personal directories and so on, but this would require a lot of effort, and you must have a lot of patience (unless you have only few games). The GB64 Database is a database already configured to work with the Gamebase64 Collection, that we can consider the "official" and biggest C64 collection.

If you download and install the already set-up Gamebase64 database, which, as I said, is pre-configured to work with the entire Gamebase64 collection, it will import entries and information for all the games included in the collection (21000), regardless of you actually have the games or not.

About the playable game list: no, Gamebase doesn't have a Playable list view. We have: All Games, All SIDs, Favourite Games, Bugged Games, Original Disks and a few others. But you can create a custom list view, filtering the "Playable" field in the database... I did it just a couple of minutes ago... and it returned to me all the 21000 games. In fact I think all the 21000 games are playable (at least with CCS64, which is the best emulator available). My conclusion is that all the games in the collection are playable, otherwise they hadn't been included in the collection.

Hope I have been clear.

Alpha.

[AlphaUMi]

Double post... sorry!

[Draco1962]

I feel that this is resolved for now as GameEx defers to Gamebase to "give the orders" as it were since it is using its own DB and not one that is GameEx derived.

[sprudel]

Ok, thanks guys for your answers.

So I will just create a copy of the Access db of Gamebase and delete all non-playable games in there...so no chance for Gameex to display them ;-)

[Tom Speirs]

I can likely add a global setting to do it. Ill look at it.

Thanks.

Tom.

[AlphaUMi]

As far as I know, the "Playability" of all games is marked as "Unknown" in the GB database. So we should run and try every single (of the 21000) available games? Obviously I haven't tried every single game. But as I said before, I think every game in the gamebase collection is working, but it's only a supposition. Please sprudel, which games aren't working in your setup? I'm not affiliated with CCS64 in any way, but when the programmer claims that the emulator reproduces the inner working of the original C64 at 99,9%... well so far I haven't found any fault in this claim. I'm just asking because I haven't found a single not-working game in the GB collection, so I'm curious....