TOSEC release (2011-01-19)

[mai]

I would like to inform you, that TOSEC has released new dats.
Get the new dats here:
http://www.tosecdev.org/index.php/downloads

[TheCyberDruid]

Nice one :great

[Crashdisk]

The really first good new of the year ;-)
Thank you!

[frankie70]

Wow,very good news!

[trackah123]

Yeah i heard the message about new TOSEC from DuncainTwain.. nice one :)

Amiga has mostly name corrections?

[mai]

Amiga has mostly name corrections?
This time i have added a lot of sets too.

[prowler]

Thanks, mai! :great :bowdown :)

[plasmatron]

Is this mostly a name correction update, or has it more to offer?

[TheCyberDruid]

Is this mostly a name correction update, or has it more to offer?

This time i have added a lot of sets too.

;)

[Ian]

As usual, due to the many dupes CLR mame reports endless missing files.

Thank god I discovered Romvault to sort out all this shit.

Still miss a few files, but it's a damn sight better than What CLR made out.

Surely someone at TOSEC should sort out the dupes.

[PandMonium]

Hey Ian, you mean the same files appearing twice or more in the same dat, right?
Yeah i should have checked it better, unfortunately that happens in current dats a bit but hopefully will be gone in the next time :)

[mai]

Hey Ian, you mean the same files appearing twice or more in the same dat, right?
Yeah i should have checked it better, unfortunately that happens in current dats a bit but hopefully will be gone in the next time :)

I dont think , that there are files twice in the same dat.
There are a few twice in all dats, have fixed this meanwhile.

[Ian]

Nah PandMonium, I haven't noticed those ones, as CLR does put two copies if it's in the same dat, but usually I move everything to a new folder then rebuild all the sets again. Usually by the time I have got to the commodore sets I have many missing files despite nothing changing in those particular dats.

It's not a problem now I've found RomVault though so maybe that should be mentioned on the TOSEC site as the preferred method to sort roms?

[r.cade]

It's very strange- A lot of games are just removed from this DAT set.

Just the first example- all versions of "Dragon Cave" are removed completely.
Also XenoStar, etc... hundreds of games.

[TheCyberDruid]

Just the first example- all versions of "Dragon Cave" are removed completely.

Are you sure they weren't just moved to the 'Games - Public Domain' DAT?

Edit : Updated my DATs here and indeed they are in 'Public Domain' now.

[bippym]

Is the main Romvault site down?? I cannot log on and download this!!


Edit: Nevermind, working now!

[TheCyberDruid]

You mean http://www.romvault.com/ ? Works fine here. Should I download something for you and forward it to the zone?

Edit : M'kay ;)

[bippym]

How the hell do you use it.. Says I have 0 roms.. That is bull!

[Ian]

It's not perfect, set you rom dir to whatever folder holds your tosec folder and let it work it's magic.

GordonJ has added the tosec dats to his site and they follow the same structure that the make folder bat file does, so if you don't have things in that exact structure it may not find anything.

[bippym]

It has a lot of development opportunities. Like setting custom inout/output folders. The annoying requester when a corrupt zip appears.. Why not just have a setting to move everything to specified corrupt zips folder etc..

[Ian]

There's a forum over at Pleasuredome for it, request it there I'm sure the guy will add it.

By the way I am IanR over there.

[niallquinn]

Now all we need is the last 3 adfs released then we'll all have a full set.

:)

Cheers.

[PandMonium]

I've never tried RomVault but by what i read it should be the best option to rebuild / manage all tosec folders at once.
As for duplicates, it happens a lot over tosec, especially in C64 (by mistake). I've created a list of them in the latest dats so mai and others will be able to completely remove those :)

[bippym]

I think I figured it out.. You have to place all the Roms/ADF's in the tosort folder. Then press each button down the left starting at the top and working down..

Kinda weird way of doing it but it works :)

[niallquinn]

RV is brilliant, sorted out the entire TOSEC collection in a matter of hours. Beats loading over 1000 dats in CMP and pointing them to directories etc. And it creates the directory structure as well!!

v2 should have non-compressed support as well amongst other improvements.

[bippym]

It crashes for me :(

[niallquinn]

It crashes for me :(

In what way? Send any errors to GordonJ. Might help out dev.

[Nekto]

Is this mostly a name correction update, or has it more to offer?

500 mb of new stuff in .zip

13 files removed (games [adf]):
Chaos Engine, The (1993)(Renegade)(Disk 2 of 2).adf
Dangerous Streets (1993)(Flair)(Disk 1 of 2)[cr HLM][u].adf
Dangerous Streets (1993)(Flair)(Disk 2 of 2)[cr HLM][u].adf
Death or Glory - Das Erbe von Morgan (1994-05-15)(Software 2000)(DE)(Disk 8 of 8)[cr DLM][u].adf
Dreamscape, The v1.0 (1996)(Empire)(Disk 1 of 2)[cr TRSI][b].adf
Dreamscape, The v1.0 (1996)(Empire)(Disk 2 of 2)[cr TRSI][b].adf
Dungeon Master II - The Legend of Skullkeep v1.0 (1995)(Interplay)(M3)(Disk 1 of 6)[b missing files][HD, 68020].adf
Erbe, Das (1991)(Comad)(DE)(Disk 2 of 2)[o].adf
GuyRoux Manager - Planete Foot (1993)(Domark)(FR)(Disk 2 of 2)(Saison)[cr Interpol].adf
Humans, The (1992)(Mirage)(DE)(Disk 3 of 3)[a].adf
Innocent Until Caught (1994)(Psygnosis)(Disk 08 of 10).adf
Kick Off 3 (1994)(Anco)(AGA)[cr DLM][h GIN][o][HD].adf
King's Quest V - Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder v1.000.000 (1991)(Sierra)(Disk 7 of 8)(6)[v Saddam 1].adf

[mai]

All sets removed for valid reasons.


Kick Off 3 (1994)(Anco)(AGA)[cr DLM][h GIN][o][HD].adf

for example is a lha-archive.

[onkelarie]

Romvault is an excellent tool. The reporting is great for keeping track of missing parts. The scanning of available stuff and validating them is unsurpassed. Great stuff!