Post by: ressurectionx on March 24, 2009, 11:21:00 AM
Hopefully, the headline information in these documents will be able to be used down the line with a sort/filter feature that hasn't been conceived yet.
Here we're keeping the most up-to-date synopsis files and placing only one person in charge of adding any information to any one of them at any time so two people aren't working on one at the same time. (A friggin nightmare to clean up when stuff like that happens).
If you would like to help out with the project, PM Gilles9999 or me for info on where you can started.
For more information about this project, check out this thread: The Game Synopsis Option
NEWEST SYNOPSIS INFORMATION
[HOT POTATO = Ressurectionx]
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[HOT POTATO = madmab]
[HOT POTATO = Madmab]
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Dreamcast
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Post by: ressurectionx on April 17, 2009, 07:21:00 AM
I guess we can post here. Forgot we can't link to it from Gilles first post in the synopsis thread and it was getting pretty buried there. New Genesis synopsis updated here, and FrankMorris is the current holder. I've begun work on getting the Gameboy synopsis set up, so I'm the holder on that. I'll upload the new atari ones when I get a chance and relinquish control of them.
Post by: ressurectionx on April 21, 2009, 01:07:00 PM
Post by: ressurectionx on May 02, 2009, 07:54:00 AM
Got Frank's latest additions to the Genesis up here. I've also put the merged (and updated and edited) 5200 synopsis that both Gilles and Madmab had created separately.
The Gameboy "blueprint" synopsis is also up now. It's 483kb right now and that's with most of the headline info missing and absolutely ZERO body work done! Crash said he wanted first crack at it, so it's all yours man.
Don't anybody start a new one at this point. We've got plenty that needs to be done with what's already up here.
I'm going to do blueprint synopsis stuff for all the other systems with my downtime at work. It's something I can easily do there without visiting 200 URLs in a day trying to get the body work done and raising red flags with the network security at work. I've become quite good at getting it done and since the Gameboy one is all prepaired now, the largest emu by far now has a solid basis for you guys to work with.
Expect a SNES and Atari 2600 blueprint synopsis in the coming weeks.
Later,
~Rx
EDIT: I've got the NES Hot Potato. Stupot added some great games and I'm going to put them in there. I also want to make sure all my CRCs work.
This post has been edited by ressurectionx: May 3 2009, 12:02 PM
Post by: madmab on May 18, 2009, 12:54:00 PM
QUOTE(ressurectionx @ Mar 24 2009, 12:13 PM) 
Is this the latest Mednafenx_nes synopsis? I need to know so I can go thru an edit a few things for the "public beta release".Thanks!
Post by: Mega Man (?) on May 18, 2009, 02:55:00 PM
EDIT: I guess xenepp
Was giving "S" a stab, last I heard, around may 4th. So he might have the potato now. Hopefully he can report his progress soon.
This post has been edited by Mega Man (?): May 18 2009, 10:02 PM
Post by: ressurectionx on May 18, 2009, 08:52:00 PM
Post by: madmab on May 19, 2009, 01:53:00 AM
Post by: ressurectionx on May 19, 2009, 06:21:00 AM
Post by: gilles9999 on May 19, 2009, 02:57:00 PM
Later~Gilou999
Post by: ressurectionx on May 19, 2009, 06:52:00 PM
Post by: madmab on May 20, 2009, 02:19:00 AM
I'm not "adding" anything, perse. Just touchin' up some stuff.
If he is adding some missing games, they can just be inserted in right?
This post has been edited by madmab: May 20 2009, 09:20 AM
Post by: Mega Man (?) on May 20, 2009, 02:23:00 AM
I don't know... you gotta be careful with crash, he might just turn around and have the whole thing done before you know it.
Post by: ressurectionx on May 20, 2009, 02:24:00 AM
Post by: madmab on May 20, 2009, 03:25:00 AM
Post by: ressurectionx on May 20, 2009, 03:34:00 AM
Not a big deal. It's all fixed now.
I like having something to do at down time at work. If I'm not smoking, or drinking a beer, or doing work, or playing guitar, or working on Xtras I get anxious since I feel I should be doing something (productive, or otherwise....
).I should probably be a CEO of a major company now, but that probably isn't in my foreseeable future.
Post by: crash1235 on May 20, 2009, 11:56:00 PM
QUOTE
I don't know... you gotta be careful with crash, he might just turn around and have the whole thing done before you know it.
Haha no I never had the NES hot potato.
Post by: ressurectionx on May 21, 2009, 07:20:00 AM
Post by: ressurectionx on June 09, 2009, 02:50:00 PM
Get your updated TG16 synopsis here! Thanks Gilles. It included most of my roms before editing.
Post by: ressurectionx on June 10, 2009, 08:29:00 AM
EDIT:
Hey guys,
I've been working very hard on the Atari 2600 synopsis at work and I plan to give the SNES the same treatment when it's done. After making the "Blueprint Synopsis" for them, I thought "it's a damn shame that these no-intro datfiles have all this information and I'm not including it. So.... for every game where the info is available in the dat I have added the year of release and the developer/publisher too. I'm also going to grab all the body-work info from Wikipedia that I can before relinquishing the hot-potato for it. I can't get to many sites at work with game info so I'll have to rely on you all to finish what I started when I put it up here.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on June 12, 2009, 06:04:00 AM
The Atari 2600 synopsis is coming along great! I was hoping to get it done this weekend, wont have it done for at least another 10 days or so. It's amazing how much you can learn when you use the datfile in conjunction with wikipedia and atariage (yes, I can somehow get to atariage at work when they block 99% of video game specific sites...... must not have had Atari in their videogame language rolodex since it's an ancient language
)When I originally did the 2600 testing it was so long ago that I wasn't very accurate in where I placed the roms. If you take a look at the spreadsheet now you will see great changes in the directory structure and the synopsis reflects that new knowledge. I think, by far, the 2600 was the biggest mess I made for myself and I never thought I'd really get around to cleaning it up and I'd just keep those roms thrown into generic categories. Well.... I'd say it's about 95% cleaned up now thanks to the synopsis work! I'm sure I have plenty of testing to do when I get back to it (so much more synopsis work too).
Anyways.... I'm on the letter K now in filling out the body work on the US roms. I haven't done much with the other categories except for fill out as much of the headline info as I could glean from the datfiles. Between the two sites I'd say I'm steadily able to fill out about 70% of the synopsis info. Hopefully somebody will step in and finish that info off for us when I post it.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on June 21, 2009, 06:42:00 AM
I'm also about 60% done with the US/Europe SNES now too! It's almost 1MB now. After hacks, translations and all the stuff I missed that one will probably be about 2.5MB to 3MB.
Going through the synopsis stuff on SNES I've found that there definitely are licensed games that we missed first time around (surprisingly, some of them are US games too like Zoop. I have no clue how I missed them). I also have zero hacks for it, so we'll have to get vids made for all of that when I get around to the second round of SNES testing. I didn't want to push any more hacks on Horscht since he seemed like he was just about burned out on making videos at the time. Now that we have a couple people that can make vids I'm hoping somebody can step up and fill the blanks when I figure out what we need.
I'm also going to have to get the HQ boxart from Sotu and TheCoverProject before a new artwork release on that as well.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on June 26, 2009, 06:25:00 AM
SNES - I've finished all US games that had info at either classicconsoles or wikipedia. I'd say it's about 90% or more finished on the US front now. I'm going to go into the gamefaqs reviews next and see how many more I can knock out starting Wednesday night. Then it's on to romhacking for the hacks/translations, and seeing how much info I can find about prototypes and other misc stuff. So far it's about 1.25 MB of synopsis goodness.
Some of the headline info on both of these isn't filled out much, mainly the Genre and the # of players. I figure the best way for me to do that is when madmab finishes the sort/filter code. I like doing it that way better since I did that with MAME a about 18 months back. It's really much easier trying to edit stuff when I can see it sorted on my TV with the game video playing right there than to do it by hand and take wikipedia's word for it.
Hey CRASH!!!! Do anything with that Gameboy synopsis yet? Haven't heard from you on that in like 2 months.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: crash1235 on June 29, 2009, 03:49:00 AM
Here is the little amount I have done on it just so you can make sure I'm doing the right thing.Just saw how much was done on the NES synopsis good to see it's almost finished.
Post by: ressurectionx on June 29, 2009, 08:51:00 AM
I'm sure what you have is good. I'll look at it tonight when I get a chance. Just make sure you fill out as much headline info as you can, include the web address you pull the info from on the very last line, and remove any tabs or other weird characters or the "[1]" crap that shows up when you pull from wikipedia.
I would also recommend that you stop to Consoleclassix.com first for the best synopsis info before you go on to wikipedia or other sites.
Thanks Crash.... good to hear from you again and we all look forward to your contribution to the project.
Later,
~Rx
EDIT: Just checked it out. Looks great man
Post by: crash1235 on June 29, 2009, 10:51:00 PM
Post by: ressurectionx on June 30, 2009, 12:42:00 AM
Post by: gilles9999 on June 30, 2009, 11:40:00 AM
US-EU English roms:
A-E: COMPLETE! ~Rx
F: Purged, Headline fields created by Rx; completed by Gilou9999
G-H: COMPLETE! ~Gilou9999
I-L: Purged, Headline fields created by Rx; completed by Gilou9999
M: COMPLETE! ~Lawdog
N-R: Purged, Headline fields created by Rx; completed by Gilou9999
S: Purged, Headline fields created by Rx
T-U: Purged, Headline fields created by justgoonies; Complete by Gilou9999
V-Z: Complete ~Mega_Man_(?)
Lightgun and multigames carts: complete by Gilou9999
Translations: Complete ~Rx
Update Hacks: Complete ~Rx
All FDS Games: Complete ~Rx
Only "S" need to be made now, and guess what? i'm working on it right now!! the nes synopsis will be 100% finished this week for the licensed games, and that's a good news for the public release!
Post by: ressurectionx on June 30, 2009, 05:45:00 PM
Hopefully I'll have the full 2600 synopsis up here sometime tonight too so you guys can mess around with that new beta that Madmab updated. I'll have datfiles and the Enhanced Artwork up as well. No videos yet though..... we still need over 200 to be made.
If things go well, we'll have a full SNES synopsis by the end of July as well. I will probably end up re-testing the roms in the XPORT emu since we will see the emu updated and you made the dynamic skin too. I know that XPORT plays about 25 roms that ZSNESXBox doesn't play. I wonder how many that ZSNESXBox plays that XPORT's doesn't?
These synopsis' could always use improvement of course, but all the games are represented and I tested that they all work with the roms in my datfiles. I'll wrap up the headline info for the games whenever sort/filter is made available.
Later,
~RX
P.S.....
Hey madmab. Two questions about the synopsis....
1) Could we remove the CRC header of the game if it is found? I was hoping to only see the CRC number when we need it (when we're missing it).
2) Could we underline the title to the games?
I was screwing around, putting an underline of 25 characters right below the game title and another right below the last piece of headline info before the asterisk. The one below the headline info looks great, but the one below the title is too low. Plus, if it was "attatched" to the game title, then it wouldn't scroll off the screen as soon as you moved the text.
Not sure how doable that second one is.
Post by: ressurectionx on June 30, 2009, 08:25:00 PM
I know I didn't claim hot-potato on it, but I figured nobody has done anything with it since February and decided to clean up the LYNX synopsis a bit while I was using the LYNX emu to test out madmab's recent artwork fixes.
Just did some re-arranging of things, cleaning up some text and adding about 5 prototype games that weren't in there. (Not really adding much, just giving them representation).
It's in by no means "done", but it's a little cleaner and now it works with all my roms.
Let me know if anybody added anything to this and if work needs to be merged.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on June 30, 2009, 09:30:00 PM
Got the Atari 2600 ready to upload. I've still got the hot potato on it though because I'm sure I'll be making more changes. Check it out!
Look for the Xtras thread to be updated with Artwork packs and datfiles before the end of the night too.
Looks like we've got:
530 Boxart
127 Title Shots
642 Action Shots
611 Carts (and 26 Blank Carts)
And we only need 213 videos!
Here's the links to the 2600 and the updated LYNX synopsis:
[HOT POTATO = Ressurectionx]
Later,
~Rx
Post by: gilles9999 on July 02, 2009, 01:49:00 PM
We are reaching the end my friends!
p.s.: really great what you have done with the atari 2600 synopsis resX, that was a big baby!
Post by: ressurectionx on July 03, 2009, 06:20:00 AM
Post by: madmab on July 06, 2009, 08:23:00 PM
Post by: ressurectionx on July 08, 2009, 10:21:00 AM
I'm still working on it so I still have the hot potato.
So.... you guys are done with NES for now, right? I'll take the hot potato on that one too if you are.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: cbagy on July 09, 2009, 06:17:00 AM
Post by: ressurectionx on July 09, 2009, 06:51:00 AM
We didn't (and still don't) want to release anything that's very buggy to the public and get a ton of responses about fixing things we are already aware of. There are also several other things that we want to implement before release as well.
We figure, if somebody has gone to the trouble of making videos, working on the synopsis, adding cheat codes or any of the other misc BS that I've been trying to put together (privatley for two years before going public a year ago), than they're likely to stick around and help out more when they have working betas that nobody else has. (Incidentally, with all of the people who now have betas in their possession, I'm still unaware of anyone who we've given them to who has leaked them)
We're defenatley not hiding anything from anyone. It's just at this point it's far more beneficial to the entire scene to have something special to give people who really help out with the project, rather than have a thousand people download the beta, one hundred of them say thanks and then we're on our own again still.
This method has worked great with the video creation so far. The Atari 2600 is the first system that I actually released artwork for before the videos were done and I'm still getting help from people (at least one person) who have (has) helped on other systems because they really know how great this project is going to be when it's complete.
When I first started the Xtras project, more than a few people bitched at me that I was being an ass for not just giving away all my hard work for nothing and telling me that I shouldn't dangle it in front of everyone. Well.... since then we've had more than 1,000 to 1,500 videos made by a handful of members here that likely would never have been made if we didn't play the game this way.
All I can say at this point is patience... it will definately be worth your wait.
Otherwise... If you wanted to lend a hand, just say the word.
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on July 14, 2009, 08:20:00 PM
That's the next one I'm going to tackle when I release the full SNES synopsis sometime this week or next week.
EDIT: Guys......?
I'm probably going to start working on this in the next few days, so I want to know that what we have up there is the newest. Thanks...
Post by: ressurectionx on July 16, 2009, 05:20:00 PM
You spending too much time posting at the other site? I need to know if I can edit the NES synopsis that's up on the main thread. The one that was uploaded on July 4th.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: Mega Man (?) on July 16, 2009, 05:51:00 PM
hahaI am losing track...
Post by: madmab on July 17, 2009, 02:42:00 AM
Post by: ressurectionx on July 17, 2009, 06:10:00 AM
What say you give me a few days to see if I can clean it up and add things to it?
I'm 100% sure that it doesn't even come close to containing all the roms included in the Xtras set. Good thing is, it's got all (or at least most of) the Licensed US/Europe roms.... bad thing is it probably doesn't have many hacks/translations (I can't remember how much of that if any I did before). I know for sure that it doesn't have the 150 or so games that Stupot1 added after the "Final" Xtras release came out.
So.... to make this perfectly clear.....
Gilles and Madmab, we are in agreement that the synopsis posted on this thread from July 4th is the most current and up-to-date NES synopsis out there and neither of you are going to make any changes on it until I post the updated one?
Later,
~Rx
Post by: gilles9999 on July 17, 2009, 12:38:00 PM
i had completed the missing nes letters for the synopsis(with help of lawdog for the "s" letter).
IT IS the last known version of the synopsis
get ready!!
Post by: ThE MaSTeR 3 on July 17, 2009, 02:38:00 PM
Post by: ressurectionx on July 17, 2009, 05:22:00 PM
That's probably the trickiest part for the NES synopsis. Tons of unlicensed games, no real place with any info on them.
Post by: ressurectionx on July 18, 2009, 05:14:00 AM
Plus, there are quite a few new additions that need to be inserted and some more obscure roms that I need to hunt the synopsis info down for. I hope to get it done by next Sunday night, but I'm not holding my breath on that given the huge amount of work that needs to be done to bring this up to code.
I'll keep trudging along though...
Could you two do me a favor in the mean time and collaborate and come up with the entire beta pack that you will upload (minus the synopsis) so I can sync my stuff up with it and make any tweaks before we bring this public?
Thanks
EDIT: Looks like for a very large number of these we didn't use ConsoleClassix.com as the first spot to check either, so I'm going to have to re-do a bunch of these from scratch.
Post by: ressurectionx on July 18, 2009, 06:29:00 AM
I wasn't dumping on anyone's work or nothing. I've just been spending 2 months working on the 2600 and SNES synopsis and have a certain way I like to do things. NES is probably the most important emu to me so I'm giving it even more scrutiny than some of the others.
Thanks for the help everybody.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on July 18, 2009, 09:27:00 PM
I'm not going to say which games, because I don't want to call anyone out, but I just had to edit one synopsis that had part of one game's synopsis in it and part of another game's synopsis inside of it.
Please, if you're going to help on this, we need to be more careful and follow the standards more closely. I appreciate the help, but with a majority of the NES synopsis that I haven't done myself it's taking me more time to edit and make sure that the information is accurate than it would have taken me to do it on my own.
Thanks,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on July 24, 2009, 10:59:00 PM
Just have to add the power pad games, the other non-working games and possibly a few more tranlsations and hacks depending on how well the patching goes tomorrow. I've moved my roms around to the proper folders for testing, so once I complete the stragglers I will run through every game and make sure that it pulls up the synopsis using my CRCs. I know madmab and Gilles have done a run through on the CRCs for the US/EU games for sure, so there should be no problems loading them up with their alternate CRCs to mine.
This is going to be fing great.
You as excited about the release as I am?
LOL.... it's almost been a year in the making.
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on July 25, 2009, 10:21:00 AM
Just need to check the CRC's on the games. That should take a few hours when I get back to this.
I'm taking a break after all that patching. I hate patching roms.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on July 25, 2009, 07:44:00 PM
Won't be long now people. Just gotta get the final okay from Madmab and Gilles before they up the whole pack.
To those who haven't seen the little features and upgrades pile on over the last year, might I suggest you put on a helmet and have a fresh pair of shorts available when the release is upped to the usual spot.
Hope you all enjoy it... and I hope you've already downloaded the Xtras so you don't have to wait another day
Later,
~Rx
Post by: cbagy on July 25, 2009, 07:49:00 PM
Post by: ressurectionx on August 09, 2009, 08:28:00 PM
~Rx
EDIT: This one isn't nearly as messy as the NES emu was for the most part. There are a lot of games that will only require minimal editing to be up to code. I'll have to re-arrange a lot and figure out which games marked USA in the synopsis and my spreadsheets are actually Europe games, and there is still a ton of non-licensed stuff to add. Hopefully I have this done in a month or two... more if I can focus on it and kick a little ass.
Maybe we'll have some sort/filter or a alternate favorites feature and get a Genesis beta out by then
No pressure madmab
Post by: ressurectionx on August 11, 2009, 07:04:00 AM
A majority of the headlines have been given the "_______________" bar between the headline info and the body, and if there was a " - " between game names with "2" titles it has been replaced with a ": " instead.
The roms that were easy to spot have been moved into the proper order of the Rx categories. So far:
(1_1) US Licensed
(1_2) Lightgun Games
(1_3) Europe Licensed
(1_4) Japan Licensed
(2) Translated
(3_1) Prototypes
(3_2) Update Hacks
(4) 32x
Ummm..... that's about it so far.
I can tell that part of this was made before rules were established. While much of the headline info is pristine and doesn't need to be altered (unlike the NES), there are many entries with only 5 or so lines in the headline info, before we added a whole lot more stuff. So, that's got to all be cleaned up...
Also, many entries weren't taken from consoleclassix.com first when they were available there. I will be going back and replacing many entries with information from that site since I personally think that it has the most in-depth info for each game and a personal touch without any unnecessary vulgarity or bashing like there is on a lot of the other sites that have reviews. If there is cool info you guys did add though I have been leaving it in so far and using both URLs for credit. Also, anyone who did these entries originally will still get the credit on the spreadsheets as I check them off. I find that the most time consuming thing to do (or at least the part I hate the most) is the headline info entry, so since those were done great this time around I'm mighty appreciative that I don't have to do that myself on a majority of the roms for this system.
As amazing as a nearly 2MB file is for this system, I think it will be closer to 3MB after I add all the hacks/trans/protypes and any other missing games as well as making these text changes and cleaning up everything. I'm sure it will be over 2.5MB
In the future after I wrap up some of these synopsis I've taken the hot-potato from I will make clear instructions for entry of synopsis stuff so there is no confusion in the future. It should be pretty simple and I'll have examples to show how it should be. You do it as much as I have and get a system down and you start to fly through them when you get on a roll.
Big tip.... Wikipedia is now the very last place I go for this stuff. Maybe somebody in the future could collect some cool trivia stuff from there, but removing all those tags is an impossible process when there is so little of us working on this and probably 12,000 games total to do synopsis stuff for.
Oh... and Barbie_On_Weed has started a project of his own. He's been sending me entries for Europe/UK versions of synopsis entries and verifying that they work and aren't being blocked by a US equivilant with the UK CRC. If any of you would like to add information for Europe/UK entries and have the CRCs too I will add this. That way if you wanted to play Teenage Mutant Ninja Hero Turtles instead of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The best news is that if you only count Console emulators, we've definitely finished more than what still needs to be done.
What do we have so far.....?
SNES (07-07-09) - Nearly complete. Brand new entries need to be made now as well as some sort changes.
NES [mednafenx_nes] (07-25-09) - Some new entries to add, but mostly done here. Already got 1,425 entries on it.
TG-16/TGCD [mednafenx_pce] (06-13-09) - Might actually be completely done here. I'm sure some editing still needs to be done, but I believe all the games are accounted for. (Maybe I didn't add the CD games yet though... I can't remember)
A2600 Synopsis (06-30-09) - If this one isn't done, you can kick me in the nuts....
Atari 5200-800 [atarixlbox] (05-02-09) - Would have been done a long time ago if there weren't so many damn Atari 800 games.
Atari 7800 [a7800] (04-21-09) - What? Like 79 games, right? I know I have to edit the shit out of it, but how long will that really take?
Atari LYNX [mednafenx_lynx] (06-30-09) - See Atari 7800
Colecovision-ADAM [adamx] (03-15-09) - I'm sure headline info has to be added since this was all the way back in March. I'm almost afraid to see how primitive this one is since it was the original guinea pig.
Genesis-32x-SegaCD [neogenesis] (04-26-09) - See entire post above this list...
Virtual Boy [virtualboyx] (03-15-09) - See Atari 7800 and then divide that number by 6...
Dreamcast - I'm debating if I should add the Shenmue review for the Dreamcast game, or my shitty little review for the completely incomprehensible VMU version of it.
What we don't have...........
Gameboy/GB Color/GB Advance[XBoyAdvance] (05-02-09) - Oh shit... did somebody say 3,000 plus roms?
SMS/GG/SG-1000..... Damn... we haven't touched that one yet, have we?
Well... including just what's above, we've done more than needs to be done still.
Good news is most of the other emus are very small in comparison to the Nintendo ones.
And the others... they're computer systems. And that includes Intellivision. I might sick around to do a "Top 200" for the Commodore 64 and a TOP 75 for the X68000, but most of those I'm not touching with a 10 foot pole with the insane amount of controller setup it would take. I'll leave that for the next OCD guy who loves him some Amiga games.
Hey.... if you configure a computer emu where I could play the games right on load like they were NES games I'll make sure the artwork, videos and synopsis get done for it. Seriously.
Well... that's about all I have to say about that.
~Rx
Post by: madmab on August 11, 2009, 04:29:00 PM
QUOTE
Atari 5200-800 [atarixlbox] (05-02-09) - Would have been done a long time ago if there weren't so many damn Atari 800 games.
We shoulda just stuck to the officially released 5200, and Atari 8-bit/130 XEG cartridges. Since those are typically the ROMs people are most likely to use. I was gonna also add some select disk/cas/exe games that are just to good to pass on. Alot easier to manage. The rest could have been added later.
Speaking of which I've been doing lots of nice little additions to the atarixlbox emu. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
Post by: ressurectionx on February 02, 2020, 04:20:00 PM
I might take a look at the Amiga and ST at some point, but the games would have to be configured by other people. I'll be doing this the next 10 years if I had to configure all those games to the XBox controller on my own.
Yeah.... I went a little crazy with those Atari 800 games. I had to walk away from that one for a while. I thought that was one of the smallest emu collections and it turned out it weighs in on the heavy side.
Post by: madmab on February 02, 2020, 11:03:00 PM
Post by: ressurectionx on February 03, 2020, 10:10:00 PM
Anyways... tons of work to do. I'm kinda stuck now on what I want to pick up next. I should probably go through all of my to-do lists this weekend and get caught up on Xtras that people have added. I figured out that damn NES bug so I'm happy with where today's work got me.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on February 04, 2020, 12:45:00 PM
Great work guys,
~Rx
Oh... and I'll get to all the Atari's after this. Got plenty of editing on them to bring them up to code. Fortunately 5200 (without the disks), 7800 and LYNX are very small sets. Plus the 2600 is nearly done already anyways.
Then I'll probably try to tackle the TI-99 and the Neo Geo Pocket.
Post by: ressurectionx on August 14, 2009, 02:33:00 PM
Hey madmab... What causes a synopsis to freeze? Having too much text or having too many hard returns. I'm starting to suspect it's the hard returns.
Post by: ressurectionx on August 14, 2009, 05:51:00 PM
(1_1) USA Licensed
(1_2) Menacer Games
(1_3) Europe Licensed
(1_4) Japan Licensed
(2) Translated
(3_1) Unlicensed
(3_2) Prototypes
(3_3) Update Hacks
(4) 32x
I've also re-arranged the roms into their proper categories so my datfiles for the Genesis are definitely old now.
I'm going back now and seeing if there were any games that I missed. I already know of a few that I found on my own and that others have mentioned to me. There were also about 4 non-working games that MM? found working versions for that I need to add too. Hopefully the amount of games to add is nothing like what we needed to add to the NES and SNES.
I'm also going to work on the Sega CD games after that. I know we haven't exactly figured out how we'll be getting them to display, but I figure we might actually look into it if we had work waiting on the fix.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on August 16, 2009, 07:23:00 AM
Post by: madmab on August 16, 2009, 09:18:00 AM
It's gonna get a little sticky at first because alot of Atarixlbox stuff is executables and I had to create a couple new sections ("Atari 800 executables") and ("atari 800 hacks").
In other words I'm trying to make the synopsis cover as much as possible but since I know your Xtra's are gonna be more specific (for example have 5200 releases take preference over A800 releases) I was trying to keep you up-to-date as to what I moved and why I moved it.
But anyways if you can deal with me shuffling stuff aruond then I'll just go ahead and do it. Originally I kinda lumped everything all together (for example the a800 game crc's with 5200 game crc's). But since we have categories for systems I'm gonna put the a800 crc's in the a800 section, etc.
Post by: ressurectionx on August 16, 2009, 05:11:00 PM
I merged both of yours and Gilles work and added a bunch of stuff too. It doesn't have any of the finishing touches of synopsis' that I released afterwards, but it had a great deal of work done to it since yours.
Otherwise, feel free to do what you want. I'm sure you know more about the non-5200 stuff than I do so it'd probably be better if you took some time sorting it before it got back to me. I'll figure it out from there when you're done and I go back for a final add/edit session.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on August 22, 2009, 08:58:00 PM
Not sure if we're going to have new additions, and the final editing will have to wait until the sort/filter feature is added.
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If you download it and need to add CRCs let me know which ones, or let me give the document to you temporarily so you can add CRCs.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on September 12, 2009, 01:04:00 AM
Any ideas on how we'll get the SegaCD, TG16 and PSX synopsis working?
Could we go based off of file name?
Then right underneath the file name we could put the full title underneath.
What do you think?
~Rx
EDITED TO ADD:
The reason I ask, is because I'm going to try to do the entire Sega CD synopsis while I'm at work next week. Just want to know that we will be able to do this so it will display in the emu.
BTW... except for the non-working games I haven't gotten to yet, the Sega Genesis Synopsis is completely finished for Genesis and 32X now. All titles all categories. All I have to do to finish it now is the Sega CD games.
Post by: ressurectionx on September 16, 2009, 06:48:00 AM
Anyways...
I didn't get around to finishing the Genesis synopsis yet, but it's about 2/3rds done for the Sega CD now. Stupot1 also has a few more games I need to add. I'll try to get it uploaded to you early though so we can get it tested.
Post by: ressurectionx on September 16, 2009, 08:22:00 AM
Post by: ressurectionx on September 21, 2009, 09:35:00 PM
I'm going to get to it, doing more obscure titles until you get back to me with what you've done.
Thanks,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on September 27, 2009, 07:50:00 AM
Where you at buddy?
I'm going to get started on the synopsis and didn't want to be double work on it. Somebody else also volunteered, so we should have at least 2 people working on it.
Look forward to see what you have done in there and hope you stick around to do some more now that you'll have help.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on October 02, 2009, 12:10:00 PM
Up to you,
~Rx
Post by: madmab on October 02, 2009, 03:27:00 PM
Post by: ressurectionx on October 02, 2009, 03:40:00 PM
Gamefaqs.com is a great place to find the Headline info for the games.
MobyGames.com is a great place to get a one or two paragraph intro to the game.
I figure no need to get any more fancy than that for these. We've got about 3,000 games to cover !!!!!!
LOL.. yeah... 1/2 MB just on the shell of the synopsis.... Crazy, huh?
Post by: Mega Man (?) on October 02, 2009, 03:42:00 PM
Thinking of a snes synopsis makes me wish that NES was here (or came back) to join our powerful forces and update zsnexbox and such.
XPORT.... NES.... please come back.
Thanks madmab,
for being the man! even if you are slightly mad...
Post by: gilles9999 on October 02, 2009, 04:01:00 PM
Hope they would be here....; but i already know Xport is really busy in his personnal life, same thing for Nes6502... one thing is i'm sure they're proud we are continuing to push the limit of the good old xbox as far as we can!
p.s.: i was wondering, is someone working on the sega master system synopsis? (the only "major" system without one)?
As far as i'm concerned i have a lot of things to do in the skin stuff (and i have already completed a lot of synopsis!)
p.s.2: really hope crash will help us some more with the synopsis stuff; i don't know how, but he is really working good and fast for this thing!
This post has been edited by gilles9999: Oct 2 2009, 11:01 PM
Post by: ressurectionx on October 02, 2009, 04:40:00 PM
I don't believe anyone else has started that one. I wasn't going to get to it until after Gameboy, but it was next on the list.
Let me know if you're working on it and I'll give you the hot potato.
Post by: ressurectionx on October 03, 2009, 04:23:00 PM
NES [mednafenx_nes] (10-01-09) 2,157kb
SNES [SNES9Xbox] (10-01-09) 1,907kb
Genesis-32x-SegaCD [neogenesis] (10-01-09) 2,679kb
These are complete synopsis'. Every game included in the Xtras is represented here. I even have alternate titles that Barbie_on_Weed and a few others contributed (mostly so you can see the European name displayed instead of the US name if you have the alternate roms).
Feedback is appreciated.
~Rx
Post by: FrankMorris on October 03, 2009, 05:30:00 PM
I'm just wondering if it causes memory-related problems?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)
Post by: Mega Man (?) on October 03, 2009, 05:34:00 PM
They are all done!
I am going to have to check these out when I get a chance.
Amazing job Rx
and of course the contributors.
Post by: ressurectionx on October 03, 2009, 06:53:00 PM
I'm burning myself out on it, so I want to make it simpler, since there is 3,000+ roms for the three Gameboy systems (and that's not even going through hacks and translations).
I'm looking forward to a bit of help on this one after doing the SNES one from scratch on my own and spending countless hours cleaning and finishing up the NES/Genesis.
Thanks for offering.
Hey MM? Yep... All done!
I'm sure I'll have to add a game here or there, but it's up-to-date completely for all three systems now. They look great with the betas.
Later guys,
~Rx
Post by: madmab on October 04, 2009, 07:21:00 AM
QUOTE(FrankMorris @ Oct 3 2009, 07:30 PM)
That's whole lotta bytes of text. What do you think Rx, will the GBA synopsis cross the magical 5MB checkpoint?
I'm just wondering if it causes memory-related problems?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)
Post by: ressurectionx on October 15, 2009, 07:59:00 AM
If it makes it easier, just fill out the headline info and when I go back I will get the body information. Most headline info can be found at gamefaqs.com
Post by: ressurectionx on October 16, 2009, 06:38:00 AM
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TG16/CD Synopsis up-to-date.
Now it's as clean as the NES, SNES & Genesis.
All CD's added in prep for madmab's new code that will allow synopsis for CDs.
Post by: ressurectionx on November 12, 2009, 07:35:00 PM
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Also figured I'd put this up here now. The complete Neo Geo Pocket synopsis.
[HOT POTATO = Ressurectionx]
Make sure that the synopsis you're editing for the 7800 has today's date at the top.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on November 18, 2009, 05:27:00 PM
Now is the time to speak up if you've done any GameBoy synopsis stuff. I've started the project myself and I'm through the letter B on the regular GameBoy already.
Let me know. I'd hate to be doing double work.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on November 18, 2009, 09:09:00 PM
These won't be as in-depth as some of the other big systems. There are just too many to do. I'm using GameFaqs to get the headline info for the games, and then using Moby Games for the body info. When MG doesn't have the game I just use the GameFaqs generic description.
There's about 3,000 or more unique games to do already, and I'm sure there will be more hacks/translated/prototypes to add when they're done, so I have to do it this way.
If, when I'm done, somebody would like to add information about their favorite games they could send me a doc with the info and the sources and I could get that added in there.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on November 19, 2009, 07:52:00 AM
Got the US Gameboy synopsis done in less than 24 hours.
Found about 40 games i had mis categorized that I have to move.
Then I'll do the foreign/hack/trans/proto/unlicensed synopsis.
Then it's on to Gameboy Color.
Later,
~Rx
Post by: gilles9999 on November 19, 2009, 12:46:00 PM
RESSURECTIONX YOU ARE THE SYNOPSIS BIG BOSS!!
how many damn good work you have done on them is incredible, when i first relaunched the thread about synopsis for all our console games (i was frustated to see mame had infos for +5000 games, and... nothing for our consoles classics), i thought i have 5% of chances to view it happen one day,
now i can say YEAH we have synopsis for almost all our consoles and they are complete and accurate (mostly thx for the gamefaqs infos)
lucky user of the madmab editions betas, i have infos for all the roms for all my systems (even the fba roms have synopsis now thx to nes6502 fba legend).
Whan i show all this to my friends, it is F###ING great! they all want one modded xbox with all this!
special thanks to:
madmab, megaman(?), Franckmorris, crash1235, justgoonies (big sorry if i forget someone) and me
; to make the synopsis for all our console games a reality (even if it's not 100% complete of course)
Post by: ressurectionx on November 19, 2009, 03:15:00 PM
Then it's just a few small systems here and there.
They all still need some editing. I want to add the "Players" which I've left off a lot of them. Also, I'd like to make better categories, but I'll have to wait on that till we have sort/filter.
Post by: Mega Man (?) on November 20, 2009, 01:09:00 AM
QUOTE
Got the US Gameboy synopsis done in less than 24 hours.
Rx, you finished this up..! 
my god man... like Gilles said: You are the "Synopsis Big Boss"...you must be a "Crack Boss" too, to be able to finish in such speed.
Excellent work man!
Post by: ressurectionx on November 20, 2009, 03:27:00 AM
Post by: ressurectionx on November 20, 2009, 09:15:00 AM
Got 0-9 through P finished on the US/Europe Gameboy Color Synopsis.
Post by: ressurectionx on November 25, 2009, 08:03:00 AM
I actually have mine all in the emulator folders already. Whenever I do an update I just save it and then FTP it over the old one. Works a charm for me.
Much better than messing around and finding a "Synopsis" folder like I used to house the WIP's in.
Post by: Xmodder deluX on December 01, 2009, 11:23:00 PM
Post by: mahlersouthpacific on December 02, 2009, 12:11:00 AM
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Post by: ressurectionx on December 05, 2009, 04:15:00 AM
If somebody could help fill out the "Headline" info, like genre, publisher, developer, year, etc, that would help out immensely. Please, somebody help with this....
I've been putting off the GBA synopsis and doing the videos in hopes that somebody would help. If not, I'll eventually get around to doing everything myself, but any work you could provide now would be a great benefit to the community.
Thanks,
~Rx
Post by: ressurectionx on December 07, 2009, 07:23:00 AM
Just about 100 more to go for trans/hacks/japan/protos....
Post by: ressurectionx on December 13, 2009, 01:10:00 AM
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Post by: ressurectionx on December 31, 2009, 12:14:00 AM
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