joebells
09-10-2008, 09:00 PM
Ok this post is for people that want to help out and fill in some of the database files and/or make their own custom list that might contain some of the games that aren't included in the official lists.
Ok first I'll post the "Raw" database xml files. These contain every game that no-intro lists. So they have the japanese and the korean and the demos and prototypes and such. But they have been converted from the no-intro dat format to the xml format that HyperSpin uses. These have the name, description, and crc value all filled in(but the description field still has all the tags like (USA) (JAPAN) etc in it) the manufacturer, year, and genre fields are there but they don't have any info in them.
You can go through these lists and whittle away whatever regions and games and such that you don't want and then just fill in the info that you want but they won't be included with HyperSpin or anything as HyperSpin just includes English language games. So primarily US games, if a game wasn't published in the US then its included if it has the english language.
Complete Lists
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HT6TBBI4
Then I have gone through those lists and pared them down, getting rid of all the demo's, prototypes, promotional, non english, and games that were the same game just different regions and/or different versions. I've also removed the tags from the description field so that you will see a nicer name in HS. What you can do with these lists again is either just use them for yourself, or you could fill the manufacturer, year, and genre info in and share them with the community and possibly(not up to me) have them included with HyperSpin.
If you want to go ahead and fill the info in then BBB and I(I think BBB and I are the only ones who have made these Database files so far) have been getting our information mainly from www.gamefaqs.com. The manufacturer field is for the developer, if you can't find the developer information on there or anywhere else then you can fill in the publisher info instead.
Year is pretty self explanatory.
Genre is based off of gamefaqs data again but this time you'll have to fit the genre into one of these slightly simplified genre's, we don't want 500 genre's that would defeat the purpose.
MAJOR CATEGORIES:
Action, Adventure, Driving, Miscellaneous, Puzzle, Role-Playing, Simulation, Sports, Strategy
MAJOR CATEGORIES WITH SUBCATEGORIES:
Action/Beat-'Em-Up
Action/Edutainment
Action/Fighting
Action/General
Action/Historic
Action/Horror
Action/Light Gun
Action/Modern
Action/Pinball
Action/Platformer
Action/Sci-Fi
Action/Shooter
Adventure/Edutainment
Adventure/Fantasy
Adventure/General
Adventure/Modern
Driving/Car Combat
Driving/General
Driving/Mission-Based
Driving/Motorcycle
Driving/Racing
Miscellaneous/Board Games
Miscellaneous/Compilation
Miscellaneous/Gambling
Miscellaneous/Game Show
Puzzle/Game Show
Puzzle/Miscellaneous
Puzzle/Trivia
Role-Playing/Action Adventure
Role-Playing/Action RPG
Role-Playing/General
Simulation/Flight
Simulation/Sci-Fi
Simulation/Submarine
Sports/Baseball
Sports/Basketball
Sports/Billiards
Sports/Bowling
Sports/Boxing
Sports/Cricket
Sports/Fishing
Sports/Football
Sports/Futuristic
Sports/General
Sports/Golf
Sports/Ice Hockey
Sports/Olympic Sports
Sports/Other
Sports/Skateboarding
Sports/Skating
Sports/Skiing
Sports/Snowboarding
Sports/Soccer
Sports/Tennis
Sports/Volleyball
Sports/Wrestling
Strategy/Constructing
Strategy/General
Strategy/Historic
Strategy/Turn-Based
Strategy/Tycoon
Its pretty easy for most systems to fit gamefaqs genre to one of these. I'm not sure how many systems there are like the atari lynx on gamefaq's so you may or may not run across this but when I did the lynx system pretty much all the genre's said action > general and so I had to kind of think about it and look at other sites.
One last thing to look at when you are filling this info in. Look at this entry at gamefaqs:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/genesis/data/586360.html
See how it has two separate names listed. What you'll want to do is take notice of that and then get rid of those "duplicate" entries. In this case we would delete the "Another World" entry from the xml file since we are going for a US game list.
In my duplicates removal I tried my best to pick the best version but for some of these systems like the commodore ones the only difference for many games seemed to be the publisher so I just picked one. If you happen to know that I picked the inferior version let me know, or just change the xml file to the other one instead please. If you see any beta, or prototype, or demo's remove those also please, I'm pretty sure I removed all of them but with as many games as there are in these lists its always a possibility.
I have not included pared down ones that are done or are already being worked on by someone(that I know of anyway) I also haven't included the n-gage or gizmondo as they seem like they are a mess(I might just not understand the reasoning for what is listed in the dat if you do I have included the Raw conversions for these systems) nor have I included the wonderswan systems because they both have only one game that has english.
Hopefully these will help people with getting their games into hyperspin and help us all get the genre, year, and developer information. Its late here and so I'm heading to bed. Hopefully I'm not forgetting anything I'll check it in the morning and see.
Pared Down Lists
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LFVS76TG
Here are the exact dat's that I used to make these lists. If you use these to rename your roms with clrmamepro or romcenter you should be able to use these lists to play your games.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B54PNUX7
Ok first I'll post the "Raw" database xml files. These contain every game that no-intro lists. So they have the japanese and the korean and the demos and prototypes and such. But they have been converted from the no-intro dat format to the xml format that HyperSpin uses. These have the name, description, and crc value all filled in(but the description field still has all the tags like (USA) (JAPAN) etc in it) the manufacturer, year, and genre fields are there but they don't have any info in them.
You can go through these lists and whittle away whatever regions and games and such that you don't want and then just fill in the info that you want but they won't be included with HyperSpin or anything as HyperSpin just includes English language games. So primarily US games, if a game wasn't published in the US then its included if it has the english language.
Complete Lists
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HT6TBBI4
Then I have gone through those lists and pared them down, getting rid of all the demo's, prototypes, promotional, non english, and games that were the same game just different regions and/or different versions. I've also removed the tags from the description field so that you will see a nicer name in HS. What you can do with these lists again is either just use them for yourself, or you could fill the manufacturer, year, and genre info in and share them with the community and possibly(not up to me) have them included with HyperSpin.
If you want to go ahead and fill the info in then BBB and I(I think BBB and I are the only ones who have made these Database files so far) have been getting our information mainly from www.gamefaqs.com. The manufacturer field is for the developer, if you can't find the developer information on there or anywhere else then you can fill in the publisher info instead.
Year is pretty self explanatory.
Genre is based off of gamefaqs data again but this time you'll have to fit the genre into one of these slightly simplified genre's, we don't want 500 genre's that would defeat the purpose.
MAJOR CATEGORIES:
Action, Adventure, Driving, Miscellaneous, Puzzle, Role-Playing, Simulation, Sports, Strategy
MAJOR CATEGORIES WITH SUBCATEGORIES:
Action/Beat-'Em-Up
Action/Edutainment
Action/Fighting
Action/General
Action/Historic
Action/Horror
Action/Light Gun
Action/Modern
Action/Pinball
Action/Platformer
Action/Sci-Fi
Action/Shooter
Adventure/Edutainment
Adventure/Fantasy
Adventure/General
Adventure/Modern
Driving/Car Combat
Driving/General
Driving/Mission-Based
Driving/Motorcycle
Driving/Racing
Miscellaneous/Board Games
Miscellaneous/Compilation
Miscellaneous/Gambling
Miscellaneous/Game Show
Puzzle/Game Show
Puzzle/Miscellaneous
Puzzle/Trivia
Role-Playing/Action Adventure
Role-Playing/Action RPG
Role-Playing/General
Simulation/Flight
Simulation/Sci-Fi
Simulation/Submarine
Sports/Baseball
Sports/Basketball
Sports/Billiards
Sports/Bowling
Sports/Boxing
Sports/Cricket
Sports/Fishing
Sports/Football
Sports/Futuristic
Sports/General
Sports/Golf
Sports/Ice Hockey
Sports/Olympic Sports
Sports/Other
Sports/Skateboarding
Sports/Skating
Sports/Skiing
Sports/Snowboarding
Sports/Soccer
Sports/Tennis
Sports/Volleyball
Sports/Wrestling
Strategy/Constructing
Strategy/General
Strategy/Historic
Strategy/Turn-Based
Strategy/Tycoon
Its pretty easy for most systems to fit gamefaqs genre to one of these. I'm not sure how many systems there are like the atari lynx on gamefaq's so you may or may not run across this but when I did the lynx system pretty much all the genre's said action > general and so I had to kind of think about it and look at other sites.
One last thing to look at when you are filling this info in. Look at this entry at gamefaqs:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/genesis/data/586360.html
See how it has two separate names listed. What you'll want to do is take notice of that and then get rid of those "duplicate" entries. In this case we would delete the "Another World" entry from the xml file since we are going for a US game list.
In my duplicates removal I tried my best to pick the best version but for some of these systems like the commodore ones the only difference for many games seemed to be the publisher so I just picked one. If you happen to know that I picked the inferior version let me know, or just change the xml file to the other one instead please. If you see any beta, or prototype, or demo's remove those also please, I'm pretty sure I removed all of them but with as many games as there are in these lists its always a possibility.
I have not included pared down ones that are done or are already being worked on by someone(that I know of anyway) I also haven't included the n-gage or gizmondo as they seem like they are a mess(I might just not understand the reasoning for what is listed in the dat if you do I have included the Raw conversions for these systems) nor have I included the wonderswan systems because they both have only one game that has english.
Hopefully these will help people with getting their games into hyperspin and help us all get the genre, year, and developer information. Its late here and so I'm heading to bed. Hopefully I'm not forgetting anything I'll check it in the morning and see.
Pared Down Lists
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LFVS76TG
Here are the exact dat's that I used to make these lists. If you use these to rename your roms with clrmamepro or romcenter you should be able to use these lists to play your games.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B54PNUX7