Gamebases

[Marcuz]

Yesterday i've searched around for gamebases of older systems, from Tandy to Sinclair, Atari 400 to 7800 and some 16 bits like PcEngine and Sega, but i have found very little, or work in progress, such as this:
http://www.allgamebase.info/
and WIPs from members of GB64 site.

is there around a list of released ones or some link from where to start?

thanks!

[Retro-Nerd]

and WIPs from members of GB64 site.

You probably found the best place for searching. There are a lot of WIP or canceled Gamebase projects . GBC64, GBST, Gamebase Amiga and some Atari console collections seems to be the most advanced databases so far.

Edit: NLS mentioned some private/smaller projects are (maybe) available in emule.

http://gb64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3414

[Belgarath]

I do have my own unreleased GB 7800, it's just missing some screenshots atm.

[Retro-Nerd]

I have my own PC Engine, SNES, Mega Drive, SMS etc. bases. But i don't release anything, these are Retro-Nerd special versions.

For console games you should try ECC, this frontend is very advanced with a lots of features:

http://www.camya.com/eccblog/

[Belgarath]

Looks interesting, not heard of that frontend before.
Ta for the link

[Marcuz]

ECC looks very interesting! thanks for the heads UP!

I knew in fact of cancelled versions, i'll keep searching though, as i could not do a databese myself even if i had the time to

[Coder]

hehe its not gamebase, but RetroNerd (greetings ) called other databases/frontends (than in the headline), so i can call my program

http://ul5..de/cgi-bin/upl...68769493043662

its only german (at this time), not-preconfigured, shareware (shame at me ) but unique.

(my english is ugly )

[TCD]

Hi Coder,

could you check the link? It doesn't lead to the archive. Would like to see your frontend

[Coder]

fuck... here is it:

http://www.file-upload.net/download-...setup.exe.html

but I must warn you: this is primarily a free-configurable database, and only secondarily a front-end. It is very complex and does not look pretty. And it is unlike than other programs.

you dont like it, i bet

(scheiss englisch, ich weiß).

[TCD]

Thanks!

Mine is here : http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=36292

Quite the opposite : Looks nice, has no info
Will look at yours and maybe I can integrate your info based on substrings of the game name. What database do you use?

(hey kein Problem geht doch )

[Coder]

firebird embedded. It is possible to use firebird server instead, than it is remote-capable

[TCD]

Is there a way you could provide me your Amiga database, if available?

[Coder]

hm...

Pics comes automatically into the database, it is not necessary to download image packages. It has an integrated on-the-fly Screenshot-Grabber. Emulatoren anlegen, Spiele importieren, spielen, und schwupps hast du eine Bilderdatenbank aufgebaut.

[TCD]

Any other information in the database? Developer, publisher, year of release or available versions/cracks?

[Coder]

Mit textuellen Informationen dagegen ist es so eine Sache: es gibt etliche Quellen, wo du deine Informationen holen kannst. Ich habe bisher reine Bilderdatenbanken damit aufgebaut. Und natürlich kann man auch die Spiele daraus starten.

Aber es hat auch keine vordefinierten Eingabefelder, du kannst dir beliebig viele eigene Eingabefelder anlegen. Eine fertige Textdatenbank habe ich noch nicht. Brauche ich eigentlich auch nicht unbedingt, mir reichen die Bilder eigentlich schon aus...

wie ich schon sagte, not-preconfigured, nicht vorkonfiguriert.

[TCD]

Okay, thanks for the info.

(ich schreib mal Englisch damit die nich denken wir hecken hier irgendwelche dunklen Pläne aus )

[Marcuz]

Originally Posted by Belgarath

Looks interesting, not heard of that frontend before.
Ta for the link

i have tryed it this evening and for consoles it is indeed great!
i imagine that to convert gamebase amiga to it would be a huge fatigue, alas.

[Belgarath]

Well I'll have a look at it tomorrow and see if it's at least possible to use it for GB Amiga..

[Retro-Nerd]

There is ECCScript, but it looks more like a "command line emulator" for emus which don't support command line parameter.

Edit: Now it seems to be a textbased script. Sebastiaan (phoenix) used a ROMrunner-PT.exe last year, as an example to autostart Jaguar roms with Project Tempest.

[Belgarath]

Am I missing something or is it not even possible to add different platforms?