New TOSEC Release (2011-12-29)

[Cassiel]

To round the year off, a new release...   

Available in the Downloads section as normal. Please see the News post for more info.

[PandMonium]

Great work from all!

A few statistics about our current set of dats to anyone interested:

complete pack
Datfiles: 1641
Sets: 433460
Roms: 534151
Size: 3472598308841
ZZZ-UNK: 3382
Invalid Sets: 30
---
Images: 430637
Alts: 63577
Cracked: 50080
Fixed: 1324
Hacked: 22539
Modified: 3692
Pirated: 1722
Trained: 15467
Translated: 3023
Virus: 1065
Bad Dumps: 10638
Over Dumps: 1632
Under Dumps: 976
Good Dumps: 3971


(...and now separated by branch)
main
Datfiles: 1143
Sets: 413923
Roms: 485224
Size: 190281996260
ZZZ-UNK: 3382
Invalid Sets: 26
---
Images: 411104
Alts: 63094
Cracked: 50069
Fixed: 1324
Hacked: 22537
Modified: 3598
Pirated: 1722
Trained: 15462
Translated: 3023
Virus: 1065
Bad Dumps: 10621
Over Dumps: 1632
Under Dumps: 976
Good Dumps: 456

iso
Datfiles: 112
Sets: 5542
Roms: 34439
Size: 2950431573978
ZZZ-UNK: 0
Invalid Sets: 1
---
Images: 5541
Alts: 9
Cracked: 11
Fixed: 0
Hacked: 2
Modified: 94
Pirated: 0
Trained: 5
Translated: 0
Virus: 0
Bad Dumps: 17
Over Dumps: 0
Under Dumps: 0
Good Dumps: 3515

pix
Datfiles: 386
Sets: 13995
Roms: 14488
Size: 331884738603
ZZZ-UNK: 0
Invalid Sets: 3
---
Images: 13992
Alts: 474
Cracked: 0
Fixed: 0
Hacked: 0
Modified: 0
Pirated: 0
Trained: 0
Translated: 0
Virus: 0
Bad Dumps: 0
Over Dumps: 0
Under Dumps: 0
Good Dumps: 0

[VG8020]

TOSEC-MSX is back on the track now!

[gorski]

Great Work
Happy New Year
i wish 6 new TOSEC releases this year

Greets,
Gorski

[Tim2460]

hello there

Pandemonium what exactly are the "Invalid Sets: 30" ??

File name with unicode caracters on name ?

Also there are a weird problem on the Sega Genesis game dat

There is a space on the name of "Strider (1990)(Capcom - Sega)(EU-US)(en) .zip"

on the dat :

game (
   name "Strider (1990)(Capcom - Sega)(EU-US)(en) "
   description "Strider (1990)(Capcom - Sega)(EU-US)(en) "
   rom ( name "Strider (1990)(Capcom - Sega)(EU-US)(en) .bin" size 1048576 crc b9d099a4 md5 fcab622a6e56f7e9b1e0907ab5a630df sha1 26fe42d13a01c8789bbad722ebac05b8a829eb37 )
)


That leads to CLRmame pro wanting to remove the space and Romvault wanting to insert it ,)

[PandMonium]

Hi Tim,

Thank you for the interest on our work as usual

Direct to the questions, the invalid sets are just sets with names that do not follow the rules we currently describe on the TNC. A few examples are sets with date fields like "1990-10-2x" or with characters like "(" or ")" in the title field. This happens for several reasons, possible (future) changes in the TNC, problems with the tool that checks that and so on.

Concluding, there is no problem at all with the sets, just some names that are different than what the parser expected.

About the Genesis dat, yup that is a mistake, thanks for reporting that! That extra empty space shouldn't be there and will be fixed in the future

[Cassiel]

Fixed, will be corrected in the new release. Thanks for the heads up.

(a new check for the TDE also      )