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There is NO ultimate collection, until ALL ever released is found, and if you count scene releases also into the ultimate collection then probally it will be never reached. See all the collections which be imaged the last years, there are still lots of new and neverseen scene productions...or just disks in series which are not found till now....
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Unfortunately this takes a significant amount of time that most of us don't have these days. DamienD is over 15 years into his! |
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I think this thread is going a little off course...
It's not about comparing a full blown set of untested ADF's Vs DD's ADF's. Of course DD's set is Primo and top of the range when it comes to curated sets.. Though the task of obtaining a full blown ADF set without duplicates wether they work or not is what were trying to achieve.. Little Info. DD's set of ADF's = 4,254 (Which Includes multi disk games, etc) Then you have games like Alianator with a filename of the coverdisk - Amiga Fun 91-12 (1992 bla bla bla Alianator.adf This is not ideal for MiSTer as you will never find it through the list, hence why DD's set is curated for WinUAE has he has config files, Arts etc that work with winuae. Gamebase 2.0 set of ADF's = 4,801 (Which Includes multi disk games, and game DD does not find entertaining or worthy to put in his collection) As for the Thunder ADF set, I have not yet got the exact details.... There's no harm in having all 3 sets I guess and use whichever you feel at the time. |
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Just as info for the above post, the ADF files in Thunder collection are exactly 10.774
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Can't you download the collection directly from the ftp site i linked ?
The download speed is excellent (at least for my fiber connection) |
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Glad for you, but what is IDM ?
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Ah, ok, thanks for the info
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Yep, i have a previous version
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How does one go about obtaining DD's WinUAE collection? Is there a monetary contribution that one can donate to obtain it? Would I be able to create physical disks from the ADF's in the collection? That would be my use for it. Thanks for any reply.
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Has anyone already attempted the suggestion of merging these collections? Funnily enough I am in the process of doing something similar. I have the Thunder collection, Gamebase 2.3 and Tosec. I have contacted Damien and hope to merge his too but there has been no response to that. He shows here as "banned" so I'm not sure why that is.
I'm also currently writing my own app to help merge them as I haven't found a tool that is specific enough to my requirements. So I thought I'd just write my own specifically for this purpose. |
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Mefging is not a problem, filtering the duplicates is. A script/app would have to be quite clever, because it's difficult not to cull something which you don't want to even when using tags.
If you manage to do it, I'd be most interested to check it out. |
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I just started wondering if I am creating work for myself that someone has already done so thought I'd ask before going any further as my time is pretty limited. Basically the v1 (alpha really) takes a source folder and target folder, calculates the files that are duplicates and already in the target (filenames don't have to match - there is already some basic intelligence implemented) and then marks the files in the preview window that will be copied and gives you the option to proceed with the copy. Ideally it would also use the game list dat files but that's a bit beyond scope at the moment. There are similar tools out there but I was unable to find one that matched my exact criteria so I just decided to implement my own. There are the well known rom tools and then lots of lesser known ones on github that I have checked out. None were quite what I was looking for. Last edited by Fuzzball; 24 May 2021 at 22:21. |
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I mean an app which could indeed compare directories, had some flags and options, all that without using some "official" .dat files (because most of the collections don't have any). Failing that, if you could make yours Windows compatible, and GUI driven it'd be a godsend and I'm pretty sure it would get very popular in the retro-community. |
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You give it a source and target directory. The first thing the library project does is check for duplicates in each directory and flags them for removal (no physical deletion at this point). In theory, it is being provided already cleaned collections so this stage is really just a failsafe. Then it compares the two file lists, ignoring any items that have been flagged for deletion. The comparison currently has some basic rule sets that creates a key for each file. Once these keys have been created for each file it then compares those keys in each list and marks any key not in the target with a copy flag. What I am doing at the moment is creating a default set of rulesets but also making it configurable from the front end so you can add custom rulesets that might be more appropriate for the 2 collections you are comparing. The library returns the 2 sets of results and the GUI front end shows a preview window with all the files listed and those that would be copied are highlighted. You then decide if to process the list. |
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Sounds great, hope you'll make it public at some point.
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