2014-06-24, 01:20
(2014-06-23, 12:21)Maleficium Wrote:(2014-06-23, 04:38)Tomkun Wrote: That's really great, Maleficium.
Would you be so kind as to share your sources and method for making this file? I'd love to contribute.
Did you write all the descriptions yourself? What software did you use to write the file?
Thanks!
I think that you're asking about mame.txt so to be honest, I'm really not sure how I get to the final stage of the file (sorry, I'm always doing lot of stuff at the same time hehehe) but I know that I started following the instructions in http://www.quickplayfrontend.com/index.p...wtopic=474
I left all kind of playable games excluding clones and bios in the result list.
After that I downloaded the Arcade videos in Emumovies and added manually 320 games that I got videos but MAME list as not working (some will run with a few problems but will run with other arcade emulators, you may use this scraper not only for MAME).
As far I remember I used TextCrawler (a massive text editor) to place the desired fields the way I wanted in order to be used with the current parser file.
Finally I had to edit manually some games name because there's a few different games with the same title like "Commando" so I added (Sega) to one of them (There's the Capcom game with the same name).
Removed manually Mechanical games that MAME list as playable but I don't see how.
The descriptions I added them manually too using copy/paste from TheGamesDB and from MobyGames. I deleted also a few clones and some bios that the fist step didn't excluded.
Probably you'll still find some clones and some other non desired stuff that the official MAME list and me didn't notice yet, easy to remove with any text editor
Thanks for the advice. I'll have a look when I get home from work. By the way, I had never heard of TextCrawler before today and it looks brilliant. Thanks for introducing me to it!