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krutknut · 04 April 2007, 15:44

I hope I am allowed to ask a question that is a bit off topic?
I have a collection of NES roms, and screen shots with corresponding names, e.g. Action in New York (E).nes, Action in New York (E).png.

I ask here, because I guess you people must have thought about this.
What is the best way of importing all those games with screen shots into a gamebase database?
My current plan is to simply place the two lists in the gamebase table, and ignore facts like cracker, etc. That would at least give me a list of all the NES games, a start button to execute them, and screen shots of the games to look at. (I know there is a nes gamebase project but it has only 50 games, and it is not the best ones either.)

My off-topic question, that I hope that you might want to reply to is...
Is my plan good, or is there a better one (a tool for instance?)
I can quite easily realize my plan, as it doesn't demand much work (At this time, I can't manage a project that is as nicely and thoroughly carried out as Gamebase Amiga).

And, has this already been done? (maybe with a different front-end?)

04 April 2007, 15:44	#1
krutknut Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Bollar Posts: 95	somewhat off-topic: mass-import into gamebase I hope I am allowed to ask a question that is a bit off topic? I have a collection of NES roms, and screen shots with corresponding names, e.g. Action in New York (E).nes, Action in New York (E).png. I ask here, because I guess you people must have thought about this. What is the best way of importing all those games with screen shots into a gamebase database? My current plan is to simply place the two lists in the gamebase table, and ignore facts like cracker, etc. That would at least give me a list of all the NES games, a start button to execute them, and screen shots of the games to look at. (I know there is a nes gamebase project but it has only 50 games, and it is not the best ones either.) My off-topic question, that I hope that you might want to reply to is... Is my plan good, or is there a better one (a tool for instance?) I can quite easily realize my plan, as it doesn't demand much work (At this time, I can't manage a project that is as nicely and thoroughly carried out as Gamebase Amiga). And, has this already been done? (maybe with a different front-end?)