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[PimpDaddyStu]

Here's a few more completed

Stu

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•  _Handheld__Atari_Lynx.zip   39.09K   9 downloads
•  _Handheld__Bandai_Wonderswan.zip   28.52K   8 downloads
•  _Handheld__Bandai_WonderSwan_Color.zip   31.74K   8 downloads
•  _Handheld__Nintendo_DS.zip   121.27K   11 downloads
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•  _Handheld__Nintendo_Game_Boy_Advance.zip   348.4K   14 downloads
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•  _Console__NEC_PC_FX.zip   17.66K   5 downloads
•  _Handheld__Sony_PSP.zip   157.97K   4 downloads

[Brian Hoffman]

PimpDaddyStu, on Sep 30 2007, 01:23 AM, said:

Here's a few more completed

Stu

Damn... Great work Stu!

Any chance of creating a Zip with all your great work?
I guess Im just lazy!

Can I buy you a beer?

[LB11]

Thanks for the SNES stu, you didnt have a problem with it? Well, in case anyone else has a problem with the new databases, go to the advanced config > Admin > Delete all game data. That fixed my problem. They are all loading properly now. I like them MUCH better!

Gameex probably had the category list cached somewhere and it pulled up the new categories and used the old list? Who knows. When I get time i might start filling in all the empty categories. At least for the emus I use.

[LB11]

Is there a database floating around somewhere for raine by chance? Does gameex create one for the mame list? maybe we could just point it to that?

[LB11]

Im going through the genesis database to fill in whatever I can and noticed that there are a few games that have a different Goodname from actual goodname.... Whats that all about.

One example is
Goodname = Cyber-Cop
realname = corporation

I played the rom and its definately called cybercop!

I also noticed that most of the games not filled in (for this database at least) are listed as (Cancelled)

The few of those "cancelled" that I checked, I didnt happen to have a rom for it...

Anyways, the bottom line is, Im going to import the missing categories from all game whenever available, and im going to do it with the good name since that seems to be what the actual game is. For the most part they should be considered complete without the extra importing since there is very few real world cases that a game someone has would be missing the info. From what I see anyways.

[Nologic]

Quote

Goodname = Cyber-Cop
realname = corporation

Generally this is the case of a game being released first on a different system with a different name than the active system.

So yeah working off GoodName is probably the quickest route to go.

[LB11]

I finished up these tonight. They are completed with correct info to the best of my knowledge.

Ill leave the other ones up in case someone wants them. Ill put all the ones I complete here.

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[SpyDIRmaN]

Great work on the DBs fellas! Much easier to use now!

I've noticed something a bit strange now in GameEx, I have a couple of emus set up in GROUPS but using the same DB. (ie 2 versions of Project64 both set to use the same DB, and then grouped in gameEx).

Anyway, while the DB list seems to show up fine (all the game data, etc is there) I can't seem to sort by anything but game name.

All the other options (category, year, etc) don't work, and just continue to show every game. Is this a short coming on GameEx's side or is there a better way to set things up so it all works smooth?

I hope that made enough sense to understand. I'm a bit hungover and tired tonight

[PimpDaddyStu]

Brian Hoffman, on Sep 30 2007, 02:40 AM, said:

Any chance of creating a Zip with all your great work?
I guess Im just lazy!

I'll wait untill the're all done then I'll upload a zip containing them all to FileSend or something

Here's the rest of the Handhelds minus PSP as there is no XML for it, there's none for any of the mobiles so we can't do them either

I've also included a more complete Playstation MDB, I've filled in most of the 230 odd that were still missing but there's still 25 or so more to do

Stu

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•  _Handheld__Nokia_N_Gage.zip   30.58K   6 downloads
•  _Handheld__Sega_Game_Gear.zip   114.53K   7 downloads
•  _Handheld__SNK_Neo_Geo_Pocket.zip   12.29K   6 downloads
•  _Handheld__SNK_Neo_Geo_Pocket_Color.zip   20.79K   7 downloads
•  _Handheld__Tiger_Electronics_Game.com.zip   18.86K   5 downloads
•  _Handheld__Tiger_Telematics_Gizmondo.zip   18.17K   5 downloads
•  _Console__Sony_Playstation.zip   627.72K   12 downloads

[PimpDaddyStu]

SpyDIRmaN, on Sep 30 2007, 01:00 PM, said:

Great work on the DBs fellas! Much easier to use now!

I've noticed something a bit strange now in GameEx, I have a couple of emus set up in GROUPS but using the same DB. (ie 2 versions of Project64 both set to use the same DB, and then grouped in gameEx).

Anyway, while the DB list seems to show up fine (all the game data, etc is there) I can't seem to sort by anything but game name.

All the other options (category, year, etc) don't work, and just continue to show every game. Is this a short coming on GameEx's side or is there a better way to set things up so it all works smooth?

I hope that made enough sense to understand. I'm a bit hungover and tired tonight

I'm not sure why this would be but I'm wondering why you would have to Emu's set up for the same emulator? Are you using different internal settings for the 2 Project 64's to play different games better or something? This is something I thought about doing a while ago but never looked into it, if you are doing this I'd be interested in seeing the settings you using and for what games.

Stu

[LB11]

PimpDaddyStu, on Sep 29 2007, 09:23 PM, said:

Here's a few more completed

Stu

These are completely filled in?

[SpyDIRmaN]

PimpDaddyStu, on Sep 30 2007, 10:43 PM, said:

I'm not sure why this would be but I'm wondering why you would have to Emu's set up for the same emulator? Are you using different internal settings for the 2 Project 64's to play different games better or something? This is something I thought about doing a while ago but never looked into it, if you are doing this I'd be interested in seeing the settings you using and for what games.

Stu

You'd be right. I haven't gotten much of a chance to game test, as I am still setting everything up, but in my effort to get all of my N64 games working I noticed that while project64 1.6 played most games well with my hardware, there were a couple of games that benifited from PJ 1.7 beta's updated video driver (Jabo's Direct3D8 1.7.0.53). The only 2 games I have set to use it at the moment are: Pokemon Stadium, and Command & Conquer, but I'm sure I could find a few more that run better using it.

I was just going to run them all through the PJ64 1.7 but noticed that a lot of the games that ran smooth in 1.6 suffered serious frame rate drops in 1.7. I think this might have to do with my hardware being a little less than ideal (Athalon64 3400, 1GBram, 128 GRFX) but again, I haven't done much testing yet.

You can easily recreate the strange effects that GameEx has while using Groups by just grouping an emulator with a blank emu in advance config. You'll notice that the Grouped emu will automatically get listed at the top of the EMUs list in GameEx and that while the DBs still show up, the sort by category doesn't work at all...

There's also a bit of a bug I noticed last night. After erasing the game data in advanced config as suggested by LB11, I went to my SNES games and searched by category. Most of the games sorted perfectly, but I noticed that for some strange reason "Fighter's History" was showing up as a RPG game. I double checked the DB and it's listed as a fighting game, so there is no reason what-so-ever that it should get listed with the RPGs but there it is anyway... ???? I have no idea what's causing that, but it does seem a bit buggy.

[LB11]

SpyDIRmaN:

Did you try deleting the game data in the gameex advancedconfig > ADMIN > Delete all
?

Try that and also go to the data\emulators folder of gameex and I believe you should see

emu1.map
emu1.(something)
emu2.map
emu2.(something)

Just delete them all. Gameex will rebuild it all the next time you go to those emus.

See if that helps.

[hansolo77]

Wasn't Tom going to have all these db's included in a future build of GameEx so they'll be there automatically? Also.. has anybody HEARD from Tom lately? I've just started to notice that there haven't been many messages from him on the forums of late.

[LB11]

SpyDIRmaN, on Sep 30 2007, 07:59 PM, said:

There's also a bit of a bug I noticed last night. After erasing the game data in advanced config as suggested by LB11, I went to my SNES games and searched by category. Most of the games sorted perfectly, but I noticed that for some strange reason "Fighter's History" was showing up as a RPG game. I double checked the DB and it's listed as a fighting game, so there is no reason what-so-ever that it should get listed with the RPGs but there it is anyway... ???? I have no idea what's causing that, but it does seem a bit buggy.

Thats probably similar to what I was talking about. I noticed that after I filled in the databases completely and replaced the old ones. I had the same problem with tennis in racing and Mortal kombat in traditional and etc. It seemed to be the same games in the same wrong places. Deleting the master data didnt work that time, so I manually deleted extra stuff as explained in my previous post. That seemed to work. But for all I know next time I load up gameex it will pull the wrong info again. Hopefully not.

Anyways, if you suspect something is in the wrong category, go to the gameinfo page and it will show the proper category. You dont have to exit gameex and open the database. The page that has the view cart title etc. It should say the proper category up there.

[SpyDIRmaN]

LB11, on Oct 1 2007, 10:15 AM, said:

SpyDIRmaN:

Did you try deleting the game data in the gameex advancedconfig > ADMIN > Delete all
?

Try that and also go to the data\emulators folder of gameex and I believe you should see

emu1.map
emu1.(something)
emu2.map
emu2.(something)

Just delete them all. Gameex will rebuild it all the next time you go to those emus.

See if that helps.

Thanks for the suggestion. I had done the Delete game data thing, but hadn't erased the emu.maps. I noticed there were also a number of files labled "emu#.dbcache" I deleted those as well, and that seems to have fixed the category miss-matching that happened before. still no change with the grouped emus not being able to sort, but I think I read somewhere by TOM that Grouped emu's don't yet support DBs. Maybe I should consider it a bonus that the DBs even show up.

Perhaps while Tom's doing the Search features he will revamp the DB support and include it's use within Grouped emu's (at least for configurations, like mine, using the same DBs accross all grouped emus)...

[LB11]

Yea, the dbcache file is what the (something) was. I couldnt remember what it was called.

[Nologic]

hansolo77 -

Yes final builds of the db's will be included with GameEx's install. Once this part is done, they will likely go in...there maybe small updates here and there or more db's added later on...but this is the final hurdle really for inclusion.

Nah no one has seen or heard from him...which means more than likely a pair of boobs are involved.

[bkenobi]

AWE CRAP! Boobs always seem to screw up a good thing...

[LB11]

I added somemore completed databases to the post above.