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Not done many systems? (so far 143 Systems / regions in the database)

We have a lot of systems done , except our focus was on optical media systems.

Bigger systems like? (as in number of titles? since optical media are by a mile the largest sets - sizewise)

Atm the sets are 20TB large and soon over 30TB. (and thats without the roms sets).

Quote from: dustind900 on June 08, 2017, 10:39:29 PM

Quote from: Pieter Hulshoff on June 08, 2017, 11:53:54 AM

Question remains: if certain information is present in both xml and info file, which should have preference?

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The info file for sure. I'm tired of having to base everything around XML databases that don't even contain enough data to do a legitimate rom scan. Once the TruRip scene catches on this won't be such an issue. But as it is right now the the Hyperlist files (unless you are using the set Pieter uploaded) don't even have all the fields available to work with RetroFE. What happens if a user chooses to use a GoodRom set? There is no Hyperlist or TruRip dat for that...

Info.conf files IMO will be much easier to work with and users don't all have to have the same databases, roms, art, etc.. The data i proposed in the first post would be basic information included with all game info.conf files, then users could add extra data to the existing default. The files could then be shared among the community and full sets could be made. Plus once Pieter gets time to add media searching without tags the info.conf files will become even more universal.

Retrofe supports trurip SUPERdats files, which holds all meta data info there, which is read out by retrofe theme also.
We didnt do this for the fun of it. Its already working. And can easily add all needed info for the seperate titles in the meta data part of the SUPERdat files

At this moment it holds (example):

<game name="Games\Cocktail Pack (Japan) (Disc 2)">
<description>Cocktail Pack (Japan) (Disc 2) - カクテルパック(テレカ付初回版)</description>
<trurip>
<titleid>10-81</titleid>
<publisher>NEC Home Electronics Ltd.</publisher>
<developer>Cocktail Soft</developer>
<year>1997</year>
<genre>Simulation</genre>
<subgenre></subgenre>
<ratings>18+</ratings>
<score></score>
<players>1</players>
<enabled>Yes</enabled>
<crc>b72eb2fd</crc>
<source>trurip</source>
<cloneof>Can Can Bunny Extra DX (Japan)</cloneof>
<relatedto>Cocktail Pack (Japan) (Disc 1)</relatedto>
</trurip>
<rom name="Cocktail Pack (Japan) (Disc 2).cue" size="2989" crc="c6fb7225" md5="90e5a9b2be04ac46aeb4c78b3cac7fd9" sha1="8edc17010797c062c7663e74274fad1ec50f43e0" />
<rom name="Cocktail Pack (Japan) (Disc 2).ccd" size="1697" crc="bc81d476" md5="3d0970e2e681f0dcb7c962b1a70a6606" sha1="e4072fe5c7a5ca6dee897f732095b0210f4d5600" />
<rom name="Cocktail Pack (Japan) (Disc 2).img" size="744283344" crc="b72eb2fd" md5="67d6ca40254fd09a965c11ab3bcd2675" sha1="1c7da12f7a20095853df26060cf661f8c97bde1f" />
<rom name="Cocktail Pack (Japan) (Disc 2).sub" size="30378912" crc="843bcca8" md5="93b2966dd427753aea452b6a5839a265" sha1="dcd6cb4e758cbf804a5ee3f6ae26880754aa70b4" />
</game>

As you can see it also has fields related to and clone of

I'm gonna be polite here and just say good luck with the project Pieter, I'm done.

I think it would be wise to work together with the other communities rather than do everything ourselves. I know truRIP is very busy setting up new sets; we should team up with them, and get the HyperSpin community to join as well.

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