Playstation 2 Main Wheel Theme

[bhudkins]

Hi... so the only item I have on the main wheel without a theme is the PS2.

I have tried making one but my artistic abilities are less than desirable, LOL.

Anyone have one they would like to share?

Thanks in advance!

[SophT]

i'd do it, but where is the database coming from? as far as I know I can't find a standardized naming convention for the ps2. if you can get that, (not just what your isos are named) but a real tosec/no-intro style catalogue that all users can use then I'll make it.

[bhudkins]

thanks, im only going to have a few games for mine... probably no more than 10 but I will see if i can find and compile a list from somwhere

[SophT]

scratch that, I will be making the database based on the datfile from redump.org

let me clarify this. the order will look like this:

#1)no-intro (http://datomatic.no-intro.org/)

#2)tosec (http://www.toseciso.org/)

#3)redump (http://redump.org/)

(for example, redump also has sega-cd listed, but I will continue using tosec)

some examples of dat names:

Metal Gear Solid 2 - Sons of Liberty (U) [SLUS-20144]
Metal Gear Solid 3 - Snake Eater (U) [SLUS-20915]
Jak and Daxter - The Precursor Legacy (U) [SCUS-97124]

seems to be in the format

Title [-subtitle] (Region) [Serial]

note that there are no multiple regions b/c all ps2 games are DVD and therefore region locked, so Sony issued different serials even if the game content was the same but released in different regions:

Metal Gear Solid 2 - Sons of Liberty (E) [SLES-50383]
Metal Gear Solid 2 - Sons of Liberty (J) [SLPM-65078]
Metal Gear Solid 2 - Sons of Liberty (U) [SLUS-20144]

now obviously J is different content that U/E b/c it's a different language, but U/E are the same game, just different regions, and different serials.

I will make a database following the preferred method for HS (All US games, all E games not released in the US, no J only games, no demos, no bonus dvds, no samples)


which is good because not every game is listed in the dat (only dumped games) so if you have personal dumps it should be easy to try to name them in a similar convention (good for wheel/box art additions)

for example a game NOT in the dat is 'Arcana Heart' so it would be

Arcana Heart (U) [Serial] (the serial is actually on the disc, sorry I don't have mine on hand, but you get the idea...

I know this seems like a lot of info but I like to think it out before I get started, and so far we have never used a redump dat for a system (but then again not that long ago we'd never used a tosec dat)...

[SophT]

the other good news about redump is that they have other modern systems that tosec doesn't:

PSX (2425 dumps)
PS2 (1032 dumps)
GC (473 dumps) Smash bros will be fun on a cab with dolphin...
Wii (35 dumps) meh...
xBox (26 dumps)

oh, and it's all in clrmame() format which is nice...

[Deemar]

Did this get made? I can't find a main menu theme.