Updated WHDLoad Demos/Games pack. - Page 18

Amiga1992 · 26 February 2018, 17:22

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Originally Posted by DamienD

instead of complaining and following a few simple steps

I was not complaining, I was stating why I preferred Turran's packs. Having packs where only the updated files are present was handy for real Amiga users to just transfer directly. Now the point is moot as he decided to ax them anyway.

Also I was in no way diminishing or criticizing Retroplay's work, I don't know where you would get such an idea. All I was criticizing is CLRMame Pro, which I still stand by my belief that it's an absolutely dreadful program to use.

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Originally Posted by Retroplay

I made a quick Clrmame how-to video:
https://streamable.com/bk1vi

Thanks for that video! I see in your example you scan your collection for missing files, but would it also work for updated/changed files? This is always my main concern, not having the latest versions of installs. I am guessing it would report that too.

Nova · 26 February 2018, 17:45

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Originally Posted by DamienD

Ahem to that Retro

ClrMAME Pro is the definitive tool indeed.

How else do you look after / manage sets without it; especially for MAME???

Yes, it takes a little to master but once you know how it operates.

...and it's so powerful you can use for all emulator, just need .DATs. Plus you can create .DATs from your original collection to share with others.

how about romcenter?

it is super intuitive and i clearly prefer it over clrmamepro, which truely gives me endless nightmares

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Originally Posted by Turran

So what you need to do now is to download the games yourself from Retroplays area on the EAB FTP and extract them on the Amiga directly.

ftp is great when you are looking for individual files, but is there a chance to download the packages in a more compact way (in the future), as well?

DamienD · 26 February 2018, 18:13

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Originally Posted by Nova

how about romcenter?

RomCenter is ok but it's no ClrMAMEPro.

I know you guys keep saying it's hard to use but read through / look at a few tutorials then after using a few times it's actually not so difficult

Retroplay · 26 February 2018, 18:23

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Originally Posted by Akira

Thanks for that video! I see in your example you scan your collection for missing files, but would it also work for updated/changed files? This is always my main concern, not having the latest versions of installs. I am guessing it would report that too.

Yes, you just add the updated dat in the profiler like I did in the video, Clrmame will ask if you want to update the existing WHDLoad dat, after that you just do a scan and rebuild the new files.
Nothing to it.

RomCenter, I haven't used that in ages (15+ years at least) and I don't think it supports XML dat files.

Romulus might also be worth a look, I haven't used it myself but give it a try, just backup your files first just in case.
http://romulus.net63.net/

Amiga1992 · 26 February 2018, 19:32

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Originally Posted by Retroplay

Yes, you just add the updated dat in the profiler like I did in the video, Clrmame will ask if you want to update the existing WHDLoad dat, after that you just do a scan and rebuild the new files.
Nothing to it.

Cool I guess that works. I can help out making Amiga update packs if needs be.

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Originally Posted by Nova

ftp is great when you are looking for individual files, but is there a chance to download the packages in a more compact way (in the future), as well?

The root of the Commodore_Amiga/Retroplay folder has all of the files in one big zip file, separated by collection. Is that what you mean? I am assuming here that every time Retroplay updates the folders, he also updates the big zipfiles (hence the dates they have)

Nova · 26 February 2018, 21:12

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Originally Posted by Akira

The root of the Commodore_Amiga/Retroplay folder has all of the files in one big zip file, separated by collection. Is that what you mean?

weird - looking at /Commodore_Amiga/Retroplay/ will give me some zipped dats, and of course Commodore_Amiga_-_WHDLoad_-_Games with subfolders #-z including countless .lha's. no single big zip - or perhaps i am going blind already?

i am using firefox, no special ftp tool

Amiga1992 · 26 February 2018, 21:16

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Originally Posted by Nova

or perhaps i am going blind already?

Nope, IT IS I who is blind :P Haha I thought the size I was reading was in a different measure. You're right!

Then again we arrive at your issue: not using a real FTP client. Use one (Filezilla) and you can just queue the folders to download them all in one go.

Turran · 27 February 2018, 08:35

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Originally Posted by Nova

ftp is great when you are looking for individual files, but is there a chance to download the packages in a more compact way (in the future), as well?

Use a real FTP client OR try my tool in the first post. I use it now and it works great as far as I've seen. It will download the games/demos for the categories you select (CD32 etc). The next time it runs, it will only download new files since you last ran it, and remember your setting.

I would love to hear someone else experiences with it as it has 30 downloads but no comments =)

I will probably also add a "lazy" .HDF file where its extracted with all games except non-english + NTSC

Nova · 27 February 2018, 13:05

@akira: uff, sanity check still ok on my side

it is a long time i have not used an ftp client (probably when still on windows). will this also affect the download speed in comparison to firefox?

to be honest, last time i got this package as one big file from a different source because of these reasons.

@turran: i do not have the package yet, but thanks a lot to you and all the people involved, i really appreciate your work.

Amiga1992 · 27 February 2018, 17:00

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Originally Posted by Turran

I would love to hear someone else experiences with it as it has 30 downloads but no comments =)

I totally missed that. So you don't need the DATs+CLRMame then? Just that tool?

Thanks so much Turran!

Turran · 28 February 2018, 10:46

Correct. Run it and set any options you may want (Skip no english titles etc). It will download the full package to a dated dir (today).
The next time you run it in the future, it will remember your settings. If you just click "Go" again, it will create a new dated dir with only the updated games/demos since the last time you ran it.

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Originally Posted by Akira

I totally missed that. So you don't need the DATs+CLRMame then? Just that tool?

Thanks so much Turran!

breech · 28 February 2018, 11:30

Thanks for all your hard work on this Turran

Wiking67 · 28 February 2018, 14:52

many thangs

Wiking67 · 28 February 2018, 14:59

nice new collections

Amiga1992 · 28 February 2018, 17:41

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Originally Posted by Turran

(Skip no english titles etc)

GODSEND

Thanks so much Turran, this is fantastic.

oissery77 · 01 March 2018, 08:21

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Originally Posted by Akira

GODSEND

Thanks so much Turran, this is fantastic.

+1 Thanks a lot Turran

Turran · 01 March 2018, 23:06

You're welcome. Let me know of any features or ideas you might have for it. =)

apex · 01 March 2018, 23:22

Are here only emulation users left? I am using till yet the 2.6 package on REAL hardware.

Amiga1992 · 02 March 2018, 03:09

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Originally Posted by apex

Are here only emulation users left? I am using till yet the 2.6 package on REAL hardware.

Nah as I said I use the packages on my real Amiga and this is why I asked for packages containing progressive updates, so people like you and me can only apply updates when needs be.

Turran · 02 March 2018, 11:41

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Originally Posted by apex

Are here only emulation users left? I am using till yet the 2.6 package on REAL hardware.

No emulation for me. I use it on real amigas.

However, I extract the downloaded games on emulation using a .WHD hard disk file with PFS3AIO to ensure compatibility, but thats just for the speed of it.

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Nova Registered User Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: N/A Posts: 309	@akira: uff, sanity check still ok on my side it is a long time i have not used an ftp client (probably when still on windows). will this also affect the download speed in comparison to firefox? to be honest, last time i got this package as one big file from a different source because of these reasons. @turran: i do not have the package yet, but thanks a lot to you and all the people involved, i really appreciate your work. Last edited by Nova; 27 February 2018 at 13:40.

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