iGame v2 - A well known Amiga game launcher ( New Build! )

[mrv2k]

So the igame.data is only used when scanning repositories to help fill in the database?

[mrv2k]

Got it all working...

[mfilos]

Very nice man!

If you also want the row stripping effect you can go into MUI settings and then:
NListviews --> Colors tab --> Row striping effect

[walkero]

@mrv2k
That looks awesome. Thank you for testing the new version.

[EctoOne]

I can't get the igame.data thing to work.

I've created a text file with that name in a game folder, the checkbox is ticked and I tried scanning for folder and slave names.

The file looks like this:

title=Curse of Enchantia
year=1992
players=1

[mfilos]

Have you deleted the gamelist.csv file before re-scanning?
The already placed .csv file is not compatible with the new feature.

[EctoOne]

Apparently I didn't. I thought I had. But yeah, that was the solution.

And I noticed that uppercase tags didn't work. I had another game where I used TITLE, YEAR and PLAYERS and that game wasn't added properly.

[ProfPlum]

Thank-you Walkero and everyone who contributed to iGame.
Thank-you mrv2k for the data files.

I have over 5000 'titles' in my WHDLoad database.

When I click on some of the titles, I receive a popup 'please insert volume igame.iff' in any drive.

I can guess that the reason being that the physical folder does not exist, yet there is an entry in gameslist.csv.

In the next release, can you please add a config entry that will allow bypassing the popup. Another great addition would be to list the number of missing titles on the status bar, right next to the games total count.

Thank-you.

[ProfPlum]

Originally Posted by ProfPlum

Thank-you Walkero and everyone who contributed to iGame.
Thank-you mrv2k for the data files.

I have over 5000 'titles' in my WHDLoad database.

When I click on some of the titles, I receive a popup 'please insert volume igame.iff' in any drive.

I can guess that the reason being that the physical folder does not exist, yet there is an entry in gameslist.csv.

In the next release, can you please add a config entry that will allow bypassing the popup. Another great addition would be to list the number of missing titles on the status bar, right next to the games total count.

Thank-you.

Nevermind. All is ok. I had a folder issue and fixed it.

[mfilos]

Originally Posted by ProfPlum

...Another great addition would be to list the number of missing titles on the status bar, right next to the games total count.

You can always click the "Unknown" genre and check which titles are missing entries.

[walkero]

@ProfPlum
5000 entries? Wow. And they are all loaded all together in iGame? I am asking because I have never tested it with that may and I am curious if iGame had any issues to have them all in the list.

[walkero]

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[ProfPlum]

Originally Posted by walkero

@ProfPlum
5000 entries? Wow. And they are all loaded all together in iGame? I am asking because I have never tested it with that may and I am curious if iGame had any issues to have them all in the list.

The iGame data files were in different folders than what I was using.
Demos vs Demo
Games vs Game

So the count was misreported.

As it currently stands, I'm at 4300+ entries.
There were no issues loading the titles.

[walkero]

Thank you so much for that reply. It's good to know that iGame works fine with so many entries. Have fun with it.
I am already working on the next version that will have the Genre categorisation working.

[EctoOne]

How is this new igame.data feature supposed to work with games that either have two (or maybe more) slaves like https://whdload.de/games/Renegades.html or games that need more icons to start different disks, like https://whdload.de/games/ChaosStrikesBack.html

Renegades gets two entries, one for the game and one for the editor, named Renegades Editor and Renegades Editor [1]. When I tried to rename them, the name changed to the path of the slave after saving. And it was back to Renegades Editor ([1]) after restarting iGame.

And Chaos Strikes Back only had one entry. Can't remember if it was the game disk or the utility disk. Although I actually wish the slave had a GUI option to select which disk to use.
I wonder if it even would be possible to rename the entry if I manually add the missing icon.

[Channel-Z]

Nice enjoying the update, fixed up my dark mode theme as well.

[rabidgerry]

Originally Posted by mrv2k

I've changed the chipset format. I had to go through all the games to add ocs only games to my database as I only separated out AGA.

Not sure about the genres. It's better to split them down a bit. If you look at the action genre, there's about 900 entries. It's much easier to navigate if its broken down a bit. I added a thinned down genres file as an example of what I would think works.

The ³ is a mathmatical term for cubed so should be in every font on the planet.

In order to use this each of the little igame.data files for each game needs to go into each corresponding game folder I have saved yes?

Just checking, thanks for this .

What is the quickest way to amalgamate the files?

[mfilos]

If you use Retroplay's WHDLoad Pack then you can use mrv2k's fantastic compilation that has all images along with igame.data for every game/demo etc.
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=106096

[Storm]

Any updates on the MorphOS version? I have never got this version to work.
The last few versions I have found that the 68K versions don't work now on MorphOS in Ambient using the WHDLoad wrapper that have previously worked.
Thanks for all the time devoted to this project!

[StevenJGore]

Thanks for all the recent updates!

How can I save the size of the iGame window on launch? Is it possible? By default, it opens with a narrow view of the games list, only a few characters wide.