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I just finished loading all mine. I used a script to write in the year as the set, and then a second script to add the number the PPV aired in front of the sort title. After quite a bit of tweaking, all 297 PPVs load up, look clean, have art/posters, have a proper cast/info, and are sorted by year and are listed in order of airing. *whew*.
The last touches I want to work on now are posters for each year (or possibly use the wrestlemanai poster from each year), get the theme songs running, and add relevant RAW's/Smackdowns as extras. I figure I'll add RAW's/Smackdowns that led up to a PPV to the extras of that particular PPV, however until I actually mess with it - who knows how well it will work. Worse case scenario is I just load them separately as TV shows.
I will likely knock out all the ECW and WCW PPV's over at TMDB in the near future. Ideally I'd like to have all three brands represented. TNA can suck it though, lol.
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2013-09-14, 21:50
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What missing art work are you referring to?
What missing art work are you referring to?
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2013-09-16, 15:22
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Hey Deano - just checked your WWE list from TMDB. It has 112 PPV's on it, however there are 297 that I have in my set and that I have created tmdb pages for. Would you like me to export my ppv list to a file for you for updating purposes?
On a side note - I went to upload some cl;ear logos to fanart.tv and it is ginving me an error that the logo must be 1px x 1px... which obviously it is (it is 320x196). So I don't know if it is an issue with chrome, the image, or what. So I guess I'll just leave extra artwork to other to work on. I will likely begin the process of WCW PPV"s this week.
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They have started locking them down? That is great news... are they starting with newer ones, or older ones?
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Just wanna say thanks to you guys. Nice job you are doing, saved me from manual labor. Keep it up I'm sure many benefit from your efforts but don't say anything.
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2013-09-17, 15:59
(This post was last modified: 2013-09-17, 18:13 by exoscoriae.)
There are quite a few projects I have built that would have been work I was doing for myself anyways, but it made sense to go ahead and do the work in a way that it helped others. I had planned on just creating all my own nfos and art until Deano talked me into submitting it all and building out the PPVs over at tmdb. So you have him to thank for that. The irony is, I'm not a huge wrestling fan. I started this as a gift for my brother (to build him an htpc with every ppv on it). But now, due to all the work I have one, my screen name is permanently associated with tons of wrestling info, lol.
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Just a heads up, all the NWA/WCW stuff from 83-89 is finished over at TMDB.
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Hi,
I use XMBC with my Raspberry Pi so only use the default skin.
Can I still set my PPV’s up using the method used in the original post? I appreciate that it won’t look as good as it might using one of the other skins, but would be nice to see the details.
Thanks.