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Miscellaneous => Off Topic => Topic started by: dustind900 on April 11, 2017, 02:42:32 AM

Title: No-Intro Mega Meta Collection
Post by: dustind900 on April 11, 2017, 02:42:32 AM
This is a collection of stories and meta data for the No-Intro rom sets. Data is scraped from multiple sites. These collections pertain to the FULL set of roms so there will be info for multiple regions of a game if it exists. As much as I hate rom tags all romnames will be a 1:1 match to the No-Intro database (http://datomatic.no-intro.org/). If you can't find your game in this collection then there probably isn't much meta for it floating around the web...

Anyone finds any errors let me know so I can fix them.
XML files are compatible with HyperSpin and RetroFE.

If you change
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<menu> to <datafile>and
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</menu> to </datafile>it will be compatible with clrmamepro as a parent clone dat so you can make a 1G1R collection.


No-Intro Meta

Included with each System

Systems

Change Log:
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6/12/2017
    Moved downloads to Mega

6/4/2017
    Updated Sega 32X Meta to new format
    Added NEC TurboGrafx-16

5/17/2017
    Updated Nintendo Game Boy Advance Meta to new format

5/14/2017
    Updated Sega Genesis Meta to new format

5/12/2017
    Updated Super Nintendo Entertainment System Meta to new format
    Added Platform History to completed systems

5/06/2017
    Added Nintendo Entertainment System story files from MobyGames
    Separated story packs in Dropbox folder

5/04/2017
    Updated Nintendo Entertainment System Meta to new format

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4/15/2017
    Added Nintendo Game Boy
    Added Nintendo Game Boy Advance

4/12/2017
    Added Story files (SystemName.txt) for existing Systems
    Soon I will be adding RocketLauncher info files as well

Edit:
    All XML files have been updated!
    Updated rating string to match HyperList format. example: "E - Everyone" is now "ESRB - E (Everyone)"
    Added the last Sega CD story. 171 of 171

Added:
    Sega 32X
    Sega CD
    Sega Game Gear
    Sega SG-1000
Title: Re: TheGamesDB Meta Collection
Post by: Pieter Hulshoff on April 11, 2017, 09:15:55 AM
Thanks, I will have a closer look. 😀

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Title: Re: TheGamesDB Meta Collection
Post by: dustind900 on April 12, 2017, 01:32:41 AM
Added:

Edit:

4/12/2017

4/15/2017
Title: Re: TheGamesDB Meta Collection
Post by: dustind900 on May 02, 2017, 08:18:48 PM
5/2/2017
Title: Re: TheGamesDB Meta Collection
Post by: ryuuji on May 02, 2017, 09:22:45 PM
Thanks man!  8)

Keep it up!
Title: Re: No-Intro Mega Meta Collection
Post by: dustind900 on May 05, 2017, 12:56:44 AM
5/04/2017

Edit:
Had to re-up the story files forgot to remove some HTML/XML escape chars
Title: Re: No-Intro Mega Meta Collection
Post by: dustind900 on May 07, 2017, 04:50:00 AM
If anyone is interested in helping with these sets. I am willing to share the dropbox folder. Collecting the info is the easy part, but organizing it is much slower. I would like to eventually start going through the files and possibly merging some of the stories or just keeping the best ones to make an "Official" pack. Same thing with the XML data and the platform stories.

Also should I add info from any other sites? I am thinking about adding GiantBomb (https://www.giantbomb.com), Wiki, and Video Game Console Library (http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/)
Title: Re: No-Intro Mega Meta Collection
Post by: Pieter Hulshoff on May 07, 2017, 07:56:55 AM
It's always tricky to get everything together: roms, XML, art, story files, etc. It doesn't help that there's so many different naming schemes out there. Perhaps it would be a good idea to check with truRIP regarding their plans? They're working on complete sets, mostly on the newer sets at the moment, but I believe they also want to tackle the older systems. That might be the best way to get a complete database with all needed files together. I'll see if I can contact them.
Title: Re: No-Intro Mega Meta Collection
Post by: dustind900 on June 12, 2017, 08:40:58 PM
All downloads moved to Mega
Title: Re: No-Intro Mega Meta Collection
Post by: hiorik on May 26, 2020, 12:49:04 AM
Do you have any updates Dustind900?
Title: Re: No-Intro Mega Meta Collection
Post by: dustind900 on May 28, 2020, 04:16:28 AM
Sadly no. It was a big undertaking and at the time no one was really interested. But now with all the available scrapers out there it's not really needed.
Title: Re: No-Intro Mega Meta Collection
Post by: walknight on July 12, 2020, 05:50:16 PM
Awesome work! I do wish you can keep it updated.
Where can I find the downloads for Sega CD / Sega Game Gear etc. that were added later?