CC2: ROMDB update help please.

[Mot]

If you have hand entered new menu items into your cc2 menu, then I would like your help.

 

Can you please run this program that check if they are in the CC2ROMDB.TXT.

It puts all the entries that are not in the DB into an output file. You can then post the resulting entries here.

 

You can get the program here:

http://www.geocities.com/mot505/Chk4NewMenuItems.html

Thank you very much.

 

I will be updating the one I keep on my site:

 

See also:

http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=61860

[Mayhem]

After a bit of thinking, I managed to figure out how to set it up properly per your instructions

 

(I have my ROMs laid out slightly differently directory wise to the standard CC2 structure!)

 

Anyhow I get this output:

 

Activision proto #1 ACTPROT1 4K 78BIOS

Activision proto #1 (PAL) ACTPRT1P 4K 78BIOS

Activision proto #2 ACTPROT2 4K 78BIOS

Activision proto #2 (PAL) ACTPRT2P 4K 78BIOS

Air-Sea Battle AIRSEA 2K 78BIOS

Backgammon (PAL) BACKGMNP 4K 78BIOS

Backfire BACKFIRE 4K 78BIOS

Barnstorming (PAL) BARNSTMP 4K 78BIOS

Base Attack (PAL) (Z-Tack) BASEATTK 4K 78BIOS

Bloody Human Freeway (proto) BHFREEWY 2K 78BIOS

Bloody Human Freeway (PAL) (proto) BHFREWYP 2K 78BIOS

Challenge CHALENGE 4K 78BIOS

Climber 5 (Phillyclassic 4) CLIMBER5 4K 78BIOS

Combat Rock CMBTROCK 4K 78BIOS

Crackpots (PAL) CRACKPTP 4K 78BIOS

Donald Duck's Speedboat (PAL) DONALDP F8 78BIOS

Donkey Kong (PAL) DONKEYP 4K 78BIOS

Double Dunk (PAL) DBLDUNKP F6 78BIOS

Euchre EUCHREP 4K 78BIOS

Euchre (PAL) EUCHREP 4K 78BIOS

Excalibur (proto) EXCLBR00 SC SC

Galactic (PAL) GALACTIC 4K 78BIOS

Inca Gold (PAL) INCAGOLD 4K 78BIOS

International Soccer SOCCER 4K 78BIOS

Looping LOOPING F8 78BIOS

Marble Craze (PAL) MARBLEP F4 78BIOS

Miner 2049'er Volume 2 MINER2 3F 78BIOS

Minesweeper MINESW 4K 78BIOS

Mr. Postman (PAL) POSTMANP 4K 78BIOS

No Escape! (PAL) NOESCP 4K 78BIOS

Open Sesame (PAL) OPENSMEP 4K 78BIOS

Pac-Man Arcade (PAL) PACARCDP F8 78BIOS

Pengo PENGO F8 78BIOS

Pengo (PAL) PENGOP F8 78BIOS

Pesco PESCO 4K 78BIOS

Polaris POLARIS 3F 26QUICK

Polaris (PAL) POLARISP 3F 26QUICK

Pooyan (PAL) POOYANP 4K 78BIOS

QB (PAL) QBP 4K 78BIOS

Rubik's Cube RUBIKS 4K 78BIOS

Rubik's Cube RUBIKS3D 4K 78BIOS

Save Our Ship (PAL) SAVESHIP 4K 78BIOS

Sea Monster (PAL) SEAMON 4K 78BIOS

Skeleton SKELE 4K 78BIOS

Skeleton (PAL) SKELEP 4K 78BIOS

Sokoban SOKOBAN 4K 78BIOS

Space Invaders Invasion SPCINV 4K 78BIOS

Space Treat (PAL) SPCETRTP 4K 78BIOS

Synthcart (PAL) SYNTHCRP F8 78BIOS

Targ (proto) TARG 4K 78BIOS

Venetian Blinds (demo) VENETIAN 2K 78BIOS

Venetian Blinds (PAL) (demo) VENETINP 2K 78BIOS

Warring Worms WARRINGW 4K 78BIOS

Words Attack WORDS 4K 78BIOS

 

Given some games in there are already known about, does this mean the checksum of the dumps I'm running are different to all that you've encountered so far, or are some of my naming convensions off?

[Mot]

After a bit of thinking, I managed to figure out how to set it up properly per your instructions  

 

Sorry, I tried to be clear

Any suggestions on how to make the instructions more clear would be gladly accepted.

 

(I have my ROMs laid out slightly differently directory wise to the standard CC2 structure!)

 

Does this mean that you have sub-dir’s on your MMC? Or how can you have any different then <root>MENU.CC2 and <root>GAME<gameNames>.BIN?

 

Anyhow I get this output:

(clip)

 

Thanks for the new entries, but I forgot to add the CRC to the output!

So can you d/l and try it again? Please!

 

Given some games in there are already known about, does this mean the checksum of the dumps I'm running are different to all that you've encountered so far, or are some of my naming convensions off?

 

The program only looks at if the CRC is in the database, so all of these versions of binary files are not in the current database.

 

I don’t know if we need to have an approval process for entries in the database but I will add them to mine.

[Mayhem]

By different directory structure, I don't mean on my MMC, I mean on my HD. Where my ROMs are located is deeper than just one sublevel below where I normally store the executables I run (such as the menu generator) and I don't store my master list of ROMs in a directory called GAMES either

 

Rerun it, attached it to maintain column spacing

newentries.zip

[Mot]

By different directory structure, I don't mean on my MMC, I mean on my HD. Where my ROMs are located is deeper than just one sublevel below where I normally store the executables I run (such as the menu generator) and I don't store my master list of ROMs in a directory called GAMES either

 

Rerun it, attached it to maintain column spacing  

 

Thank you :wink:

 

I will add...

[+Mitch]

Cool stuff, looks like I need to do some updating as well.

 

Mahem, where did you find a PAL Pengo ROM, I've looked all over for one without any luck. Can you post it please.

 

Mitch

[Mayhem]

I believe the PAL Pengo ROM came from Marco when I was angling to buy the PAL lab loaner of it from him. Whether the cart I now have is any different to the actual real release (which is about as easy to find heh!) I don't know, but it's all that's out there I guess. Right... let's see here...

pengopal.zip

[+Mitch]

Thanks.

 

Mitch

[Mayhem]

For the record, it's just as well someone here (ie. me) has a master ROMs directory that has both NTSC and PAL

 

Why I decided to do that, I don't know. Probably because there's lots of games only on NTSC, and I'd want to play the PAL versions of whatever was available too. So I just go for everything!

 

As it stands, my MENU.CC2 file has 1073 entries currently. My policy is to have one version (both NTSC and PAL where possible) of each game and one version only; official where possible, unofficial where one didn't originally exist. No clones, no pirates, no hacks (well almost). Homebrews and protos are in. Although of course some PAL versions are only available via the pirate/clone route and these have been allowed. If a real version exists, then it is used primarily.

[Mot]

I added the new entries by MayhemUK and assigned companies to them and I also added companies to other’s that didn’t have them before.

 

I uploaded the updated DB and I updated the:

http://www.geocities.com/mot505/Chk4NewMenuItems.html

and

http://www.geocities.com/mot505/CC2MenuGen.html

and just the db at:

http://www.geocities.com/mot505/CC2ROMDB.zip

 

I found the the jar in the zip file of the Java Menu Generator didn’t seem to work, so I added just a link to the jar file on the site.

 

I ran the Java Menu Generator with the new entries and I got more recognized roms in the menu.

 

Anyone else have hand entered new menu items in your cc2 menu?

 

Thanks.