SG-1 Charpy WIP

[SG-1 Charpy]

Hi all this is my WIP for C64 Games (to starting)
First, be indulgent with my english, i'm just a poor french man !!! 
To begin I will clean, correct and reorganize the databases. (Big work in perspective)
After that we can add new roms  to the databases !

Ok let's start with the first dat [ARC]
There are some bad name flag.
Done 

Next the [BIN] ..
Found missing dates and publisher flags
Done 
 

[Duncan Twain]

hi SG-1

I've created to lists for you to help you renaming (too big to attached, will find some other method to get them to you). Both list show files with exactly the same content. The first file (post-fixed with 1) are the most reliable matches, I've removed the label+bam and created a hash. When both hashes match and the tosec parsed filename differs it will be in the list.
The second file also tries to match content, but based on the files inside the container. This can be wrong, for instance in the case of "EA", "Flight Simulator" or all of the "Infocom" games.
It should give a good indication.

You could also clean up the "[PRG]" first and let me match them against all the other file types. That's really easy todo, I could automatically rename all the matching files using your corrected "[PRG]" list. Think about it and let me know.

Cheers,
DuncanTwain...

[SG-1 Charpy]

@ Duncan :
Ok i send you a PM message. You can send me your lists 

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[D64]
Create new folders for cleaning the database. All roms with [Create with ...] and all with the (PD).
- 3D Construction Kit 
- Garry Kitchen's GameMaker
- Pinball Construction Set
- Public Domain
- Shoot'Em-Up Construction Kit

3D Construction Kit 
Quick search then renaming  4 roms

Garry Kitchen's GameMaker 
Quick search then renaming  58 roms

Pinball Construction Set 
Quick search then renaming  309 roms

To do

Shoot'Em-Up Construction Kit (50%)
600 roms found (first search)

Public Domain (5%) 
921 roms found (first search)

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[SG-1 Charpy]

  little update

Pinball Construction Set
+ 1 rom -> Found 310 roms in the actual database

Gary Kitchen' GameMaker
+ 53 roms -> Found 111 roms

[PandMonium]

Hey SG-1 Charpy,

Sorry for the late reply but welcome aboard. Your english is good and thanks for your contributions to the project

[SG-1 Charpy]

@  PandMonium
Thanks you !

  new update

- Gary Kitchen' GameMaker
+ 1 rom -> Found 112 roms

- Pinball Construction Set
+ 14 roms -> Found 313 roms

- bad news i have lost all my work in the Shoot'Em-Up Construction Kit folder !

  progress 0% now ! restart is needed !

- Public Domain -> 90%
Found 903 roms now !

- Found some roms who are not games.
8 applications
2 compilations
6 demos (graphics, musics)

Ok let's go to the work now !

- A very strange rom and hard to rename:
Stroke World (1997)(Protovision)(de-en)[cr AFL]
this rom was cracked, fixed (NTSC) and trained +3 by Alpha Flight but still have bugs (flickering and wobbling on PAL system and SCPU loader is corrupt). There a key for load Go64 version and some levels passwords are done !
i rename
Stroke World (1997)(Protovision)(de-en)[cr Alpha Flight][f NTSC][t +3][levels passwords]

[Duncan Twain]

Al the Fish (19xx)(-)[cr M8].prg (and others starting with "al the fish").
moved to Previews and name corrected. Please remove from games section.

[SG-1 Charpy]

  thks for the correction.

OK last update !

- Gary Kitchen' GameMaker
112 roms now
Dat created ! 

- Pinball Construction Set
313 roms now
Dat created ! 

- 3D Construction Kit
4 roms now
Dat Created ! 

- Public Domain
899 roms now
Dat created ! 

- Shoot'em up Construction Kit
600 roms now
20% renamed 

All database are likely to change when i rename all the roms of "Games - [D64]

[Duncan Twain]

Nice work.
Before you started renaming I already made a couple of changes to the Games[D64] set, see attachment (created using DATinate).

[SG-1 Charpy]

@ Duncan Twain
  Thanks! it's help me a lot, later because i have just finished to rename the SEUCK section !

Last update

- Public Domain
893 roms now
Dat created ! 

- Shoot'em up Construction Kit
639 roms now
Roms zipped and dat created ! 

Now the biggest work remains to be done! [D64]

[PandMonium]

Excelent! Once you're ready, if you need credentials to upload your wip dats or something that might help collaborating with Duncan just let me know

[SG-1 Charpy]

  Some news of my WIP
I have finish to sort and rename the new folder
After a quick search with specific keywords, I found some files that would be wise to separate into new folders and other would be moved to other folders

I found
- 143 roms that are "Addons" (Expansion, extension, scenario ...)
- 9 roms that are "Save Disk" (save game, character ...) Included the 2 last "ZZZ-UNK" files in the database
- 14 roms that are only a "Graphics" (Title screen, gfx ...) i know there are many demos files that are only a gfx
- 5 roms -> Docs
Maybe it should create new folders to clearly identify the roms. 

I have finish to rename the 0 to 9 roms in [D64]
The result combined with the search
- 1198 roms (0 to 9)
- 19 roms -> Compilations - Games
- 2 roms -> Compilations
- 7 roms -> Demos
- 17 roms -> Educational
- 271 roms -> Applications
- 1 rom that is just the intro of the game "I Play - 3D Soccer - Intro (1991)(Simulmondo)" -> ?

Actually

3D Construction Kit -> 4 roms
Garry Kitchen's GameMaker -> 112 roms
Pinball Construction Set -> 313 roms
Public Domain -> 896 roms
Shoot'Em-Up Construction Kit -> 643 roms

Now it's the turn of all the "A" roms to be clean.

@ PandMonium
Thanks ! i send the new dats after a good sleep, in France it was 03h43 AM -> "du matin"

[PandMonium]

Good work
Send them when you think they are good, no need to worry.

[Duncan Twain]

Nice work, could you please send them to my email account? Before you started I also made a few changes which i'd like to merge back.

[SG-1 Charpy]

  Hello everyone, no I'm not dead but it's been a long time since I gave news on the progress of my work.
I am alive but I come back from far away as we say in France  . Indeed I found myself at the wrong time and in the wrong place on 14 JULY 2016. I was on vacation in NICE on the "promenade des anglais" to witness the fireworks with my family when the attack had league  . I do not remember much about this event, only what my family told me. I would have been thrown by the truck after I managed to get away from the danger my wife and my son  . Result 4 months of hospital for multiple fractures  . I went out at the beginning of this month and I'm recovering little by little  . Unfortunately I lost part of my work on the C64 database during this ATTACK (a backup elsewhere but old) . So I'm just starting over from the beginning.
Not to mention what has already been included in the latest version, here is where I am:

Updated:
Garry Kitchen's GameMaker -> 115 roms
Pinball Construction Set -> 323 roms
Public Domain -> 1172 roms (~90%)
Addons -> 143 roms
Save Disks -> 9 roms
SEUCK -> 1234 roms (~90%)
Educational -> 2319 roms
AdventureWriter (The Quill) -> 8  roms
Graphic Adventure Creator -> 66 roms
D64 -> "B" (~50%)

 
to Move to :
Boulder Dash -> 6 roms
Preview -> 46 roms
Docs -> 9 roms
Diskmags -> 1 roms
Demos ->  7 roms
Compilation games -> 74 roms
Compilation misc -> 8 roms
Compilation PD -> 2 roms
Applications -> 317 roms

To identify

Mental Moons (19xx)(Binary Zone) in the intro it's was mentioned that is a "Game demo" -> then this is a preview ?
May be create a dat with all the other roms made with games makers and add a [made with GKGM GAC PCS AW] at the end of each roms.

That's all, now i will take some vacation for the end of year party (in my house  )
This was my first and last reference to this abomination and my patriotism

 
LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, FRATERNITÉ
LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY

PS: to tosec members i come back to Slack the next year !