Dr Manhattan Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Greetings everyone! I am currently looking for advice on how to sort my 2600 roms. I would like to create the ultimate catagorized assortment of games. Here are the genres I have so far. Please take a look and tell me what you think. What genres am I missing? And is there a list of Atari games by genre? That would be great. Thanks in advance for your help. A to Z 20th Century Fox Action Games Activision Adventure Arcade Atari Classics (games made by Atari) Brain Games (Inludes Puzzle Games) CBS Electronics Driving Games Fighting & Beat Em Ups Flying & Flight Sim Hacks Homebrew Horror Games Imagic Mattel - M-Network Movie Games (Games based on Movies) Multi-Carts Pac-Man + Clones Paddle Games Public Domain Pinball Prototypes Rare Games RPGs Shooting Games -Shooting: Top Down -Shotting: Side Scroller Sports Star Wars Games (I'm a Star Wars and Trek geek) Starpath Games Touch Pad Games Trakball Games TV Games (Games based on TV shows) XXX - Adult Games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Franzman Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 (edited) Here's what I have. It's a work-in-progress, subject to change -- most notably, the folders under "By Brand" are likely to change, as I don't intend to have a folder for any brand with less than about 10 games. My directory system uses several abbreviations mostly made of 3 capital letters. For example, "PRO" = "prototype"; "CTL" = "control(ler/s)", etc. There are many more such abbreviations not seen here, which I use in the filenames. Names in [brackets] are folders which contain one or more sub-folders. Names without brackets are folders which contain only program binaries. Folders which contain sub-folders do not also contain "loose" binaries; any given Harmony menu screen will be filled with either sub-folders or binaries, never both. The "All Games Main Version" folder (probably equivalent to your "A to Z" folder) will contain only games, and only the best available NTSC version of each. Duplicates of these exact same files will also be found in the "By Brand", "By Number of Players", "By Controller Type", "By Genre", "Homebrews" and "Playable PROs & WIPs" folders where appropriate. The "Less-Complete PROs" folder (in the "Alternates" folder) will contain earlier versions of prototypes found in the "Playable PROs & WIPs" folder. The remaining folders should be self-explanatory. [All Games Main Version] [by Brand] 20th Century Fox Activision Apollo Atari Bit Corporation CBS Electronics CCE Coleco CommaVid Data Age Ebivision HES Home Vision Imagic Junkosoft Mattel Mystique-PlayAround Parker Brothers Quelle Sega Self-Published Spectravideo Starpath Suntek Telegames Telesys Tigervision U.S. Games Xonox Xype Zellers Zimag-Emag-Vidco [by Number of Players] 0 1 2 Only, Simultaneous 2 or more Alternating 2 or more Simultaneous 3 or more Simultaneous [by Controller Type] Joystick Paddle Driving Keyboard-VTP-Kids' Multi Litegun-Mindlink-Other [by Genre] Adult Adventure Arcade Board + Card Children's+Educational Horror Martial Arts Maze Media Tie-in Puzzle Racing-Chase-Motrsport Shoot 'Em Up Simulation Sports [Homebrews] [Playable PROs & WIPs] [Modern Hacks] [by Hacked Game] (Folder per Original Game Name) Accurized Ports PAL to NTSC Conversion CTL Type or Port Graphics + Play Play Only Graphics Only Palette Select Bankswitch Conversion (Including Supercharger) NTSC to PAL Conversion [Non-Games] [Demos, Bad PROs & WIPs] Demoscene Images Music & Audio Kernel & GFX Demos Unplayable PROs & WIPs [PAL Only] [Alternates] [Vintage Pirate Hacks] [by Hacked Game] (Folder per Original Game Name) PAL to NTSC Conversion CTL Type or Port Graphics + Play Play Only Graphics Only Logo Chnge-Remove Only NTSC to PAL Conversion Alternate ROM Versions Less-Complete PROs Multicarts PAL & SECAM Versions [Harmony Incompatible] Over 32 KB Other Edited May 16, 2011 by A.J. Franzman 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 You guys would be disappointed in me. I file all my games under "F" for fun. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Manhattan Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 A.J. your system is brilliant. I'm definitely going to follow your example. You have great knowledge of the 2600 catalog. Speaking of which, is there no place to get a list of 2600 games sorted by genre, catagory, etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwane413 Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 A.J. your system is brilliant. I'm definitely going to follow your example. You have great knowledge of the 2600 catalog. Speaking of which, is there no place to get a list of 2600 games sorted by genre, catagory, etc? This may not be what you're wanting, but you can search by genre at Atarimania. Click on Games then Advanced Search. On the Advanced Search page, you might want to check the box that says "Original version (in white)" so you don't get as many results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keilbaca Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 AJ that is a brilliant idea. I love it, I just wish I had the time to do all that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pioneer4x4 Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Greetings everyone! I am currently looking for advice on how to sort my 2600 roms. I would like to create the ultimate catagorized assortment of games. Here are the genres I have so far. Please take a look and tell me what you think. What genres am I missing? And is there a list of Atari games by genre? That would be great. Thanks in advance for your help. A to Z 20th Century Fox Action Games Activision Adventure Arcade Atari Classics (games made by Atari) Brain Games (Inludes Puzzle Games) CBS Electronics Driving Games Fighting & Beat Em Ups Flying & Flight Sim Hacks Homebrew Horror Games Imagic Mattel - M-Network Movie Games (Games based on Movies) Multi-Carts Pac-Man + Clones Paddle Games Public Domain Pinball Prototypes Rare Games RPGs Shooting Games -Shooting: Top Down -Shotting: Side Scroller Sports Star Wars Games (I'm a Star Wars and Trek geek) Starpath Games Touch Pad Games Trakball Games TV Games (Games based on TV shows) XXX - Adult Games I like that idea except that I have 2 suggestions. 1 - If you will be using it near any people that will be shocked/offended/embarrases/think less of you... rename or bury the xxx folder, I would suggest under something that no one will look in like "Educational" 2 - On mine, I have 2 master folders "Owned" and "Wishlist", and both have the same subfolders. I like going into the Owned folder and being able to select only the carts I actually have. And when I get a new cart that I haven't had before, it is nice to be able to move it from the Wishlist to the Owned folder. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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