Database Flood... new and updates.
OK, here are the latest revisions of some present databases and a few new 'old skool' ones as well. Bare (or 'bear') in mind that this WILL effect your games and how they are displayed. I've been able to link many titles in the various databases, but most likely, unless you view the databases and check your ROM/artwork file names, you won't see the changes, and some will loose their info as well. Before installing, make back-ups of your present databases so you can always fall back in case you are not happy with the results. Please don't hold me responsible if your PC blow-up, just fall back to what you had prior.
Here are some examples of what has changed:
1.
Spy vs. Spy was changed to
Spy vs Spy in all listed databases, and will be the same throughout as it allows the C64, GameBoy Color, SMS versions to link
2.
Ghosts'n Goblins which is often listed as
Ghosts 'N Goblins, or
Ghosts N' Goblins which is wrong. It's now
Ghosts'n Goblins, which will link the several versions. Same for
Q-Bert,
Pac-Man .. etc.
3. Some game names were changed so that they would link to their MAME counterparts. Games like
Elevator Action in the GBC database were listed as
Elevator Action GB... the '
GB' was dropped from the nameset so that it will link with the MAME and other console versions.
4. Many games that had an
'II' instead of a numeric
'2' in the title were changed to the
'2' as they show in the title screen and box/cart artwork.
I've tested these on my set, however, again, you're going to have to do some more work to get it straight on your set. If you want GameEx to link and show all the variations, it's a lot of work, but I've done the hard part for you. Unfortunately, because several folks have created the many databases in GameEx, using Good Names, No-Intro or TOSEC, there are different combinations of the same name in different databases. Most, but not all of the below databases have changes to the 'No-Intro' and or 'Good Name' lists. Also, punctuation effects the name, if a comma is in different spots... it won't link. I sorted as many issues as I could find as well.
Maybe some day I can go through more, but after the Genesis (over 900+), and Game Boy Advance (over 600+) ... I don't know...
Anyway... here they are... I will be posting updates from this thread, so come back now and then and check. Present WIP is the Game Boy database. The one listed has been cleaned up a little, in the No-Into list. All Databases created using MS Access.
All the best,
IMB
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Updates :
07 Jan 11 - Added Epoch Super Cassette Vision
13 Jan 11 - Updated Nintendo GameBoy - added 74 new games, corrected naming
18 Jan 11 - Large update to Sega Genesis DB. Added over 100 games and corrected many games listed as 'beta'
24 Jan 11 - Updated Atari Jaguar - Corrected/added many names to Good and NoIntro.
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