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Barthax
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 Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:50 pm Post subject: Help needed? |
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Hi all,
Any help needed on the site anywhere? |
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Frankie
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Barthax
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject: Re: Help needed? |
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| Frankie wrote: |
| Barthax wrote: |
Hi all,
Any help needed on the site anywhere? |
Hi
Well, if there are any machines you care for, I think Gameboy would like you to run Regulation Play for them.
As an old Spectrum guy, you are always welcome to help with the Spectrum part of HARP  |
Be glad to help the speccy along.  Are the current set of systems closed or is it a simple matter of not enough man-power to open up others? |
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Barthax
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh, also... What's the public status of the site? I figure not public yet based on the number of people involved so far. |
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gameboy9
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:42 am Post subject: |
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Yeah we can use all the help we can get here... SNES and Genesis need their game lists completed... I haven't even started Gameboy/GBC yet... I see Commodore 64 can be played as well... I just started there. Also any system coordinator might need some help, as Frankie noted.
Any MESS-supported system can be added to the database... just let me know, and I'll add it. Also... if you find a system that can be recorded using another emulator, I'll add that as well.
I'm starting to see a structure of system coordinators (Frankie for ZX Spectrum, Skito for Atari 2600, and Barry for Amstrad CPC), editors underneath that, then confirmers underneath that I guess.
Above those are "super-editors" (none yet), then me. :)
I know I have a lot of work to do... just so little time!  |
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Barthax
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 10:16 am Post subject: |
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| OK, I can certainly start work on adding games for SNES & Genesis. Let me know which one you prefer me to start on & guide me in the direction of the tools. |
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Frankie
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Barthax wrote: |
| OK, I can certainly start work on adding games for SNES & Genesis. Let me know which one you prefer me to start on & guide me in the direction of the tools. |
I'll get back to you when I need some help on the Spectrum work, but if you like to be a Spectrum confirmer, I think that Gameboy will agree and make you one
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Chad
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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Barthax, while you are adding, and you have a little more time, MAKE a screenshot, and name it the exact same name that you add to harp. Don't touch it up just send it to me in a big zip after you add the games and i'll add the screen shots all nice and normalized. Thanks.
Also, Gameboy or I can send you harvested screenshots to use or compare (if gameboy decides to put a link to emucation on our site in order for us to use them). |
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Barthax
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Chad wrote: |
Barthax, while you are adding, and you have a little more time, MAKE a screenshot, and name it the exact same name that you add to harp. Don't touch it up just send it to me in a big zip after you add the games and i'll add the screen shots all nice and normalized. Thanks.
Also, Gameboy or I can send you harvested screenshots to use or compare (if gameboy decides to put a link to emucation on our site in order for us to use them). |
Sure thing on the pictures. Ready & willing - just need the go ahead & intro to the process. |
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Chad
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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| another helpfull thing you might already know is to make sure the names are normalized. this was easy for me with clrmame automating and renaming the 2600 carts. not sure how the nes works but since cartirdiges aren't as nicely named as arcade games are it's really important to have normalized names that conform to some standard, like the "Good" names in the clrmame dat files, so most users will recognize the names and thus reflect less changes in the future. |
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Barthax
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm familiar with the Goodxxx utils & their way of naming stuff & the dats based on them at ClrMAME - basically use only [!] names where possible (keeping the name of the game as it appears), unless a good dump isn't available for a particular ROM, cool. |
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gameboy9
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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Well I gave you game editing rights to Genesis.
Basically, just fill in all the fields except the game ID, (because that will edit a game... not a good idea) then the game will be added to the database, and that's it. If a company isn't listed, you can go into the company database and do the same thing as game editing. And that's basically training.
We'll start there and go from there. |
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Barthax
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 12:11 am Post subject: |
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| gameboy9 wrote: |
Well I gave you game editing rights to Genesis.
Basically, just fill in all the fields except the game ID, (because that will edit a game... not a good idea) then the game will be added to the database, and that's it. If a company isn't listed, you can go into the company database and do the same thing as game editing. And that's basically training.
We'll start there and go from there. |
OK, thanks. I'll take a good look before stuffing my foot firmly in my mouth!  |
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Barthax
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| OK, thanks. I'll take a good look before stuffing my foot firmly in my mouth! |
The Company section looks pretty easy. :)
However, I have a bit of a problem on the Games section. Naturally the selection list only supplies Genesis as an option. The problem is the java script only submits on the change event & the Genesis option is default selected... I can select the blank entry to generate the submit, but it pops back with the Genesis as the default selected again, so I can't actually select it to submit the form! Same result in IE & Firefox. Any chance of the blank entry being the default? |
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gameboy9
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| OK - I think I took care of the Games bug. |
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