Game database success?

[skeezix]

Anyone made use of the game database with some success stories? I didn't have much time to get any alpha testing on it, so the only testing was me screwing around

ie: It shoudl take a second the first time you hit SELECT on a game. It should come up nearly instantly all subsequent times. (assuming detail is found).

It should have a decent selection of games in it (mostly automation though)

jeff

 

[Avigrace]

Works well for me Skeezix

I renamed all my files with the name of the best game on the disk and now am going through realising how many others I really want to play again.

I have a fair few Automations disks and the game list loaded up real quick (less than a second) and I have found no bugs/problems with it. I have however just posted a couple of possible improvments in the CaSTaway GP Feedback thread.

 

[Axeman]

It's great cos it gives you the contents of the disk even if you've renamed it! Didn't expect that ! I suppose should of considering it used checksums and all that to work out whick disk is being used!

 

[sloth]

Something has converted every occurance of the "&" symbol to "&" Check FOF_035.ST for an example, but searching through the file i found a few more. Hrmm.. perhaps the stgames.txt should be zipped before offering for download ? Other than that it seems to be working great

 

[skeezix]

I've uploaded stgames12.txt with the &'s changed & -- woops!

I'll zip later. Too busyt right now

jeff

 

[EvilDragon]

Wow! A working game database, at that speed! GRRREEEAT

It just gave me another idea...
At the moment you have to look at the disk and press select to find out what's on it...
I think it would just be nice if Castaway reads in the directory and then shows all the games
you have in alphabetically order
So there's no need to look into the automation disk, you just have a laaarge list of your games, select one and Castaway will
load the appropriate disk

What do you guys think?
Shouldn't be too complicate to integrate

 

[skeezix]

We're actually talking about that in another thread

jeff

 

[Tobriand]

Yeah, a list of the games instead of the disks might be nice - but prolly a bit more awkward.

I've used the database lots for my automation disks - shame I mostly use d-bug though lol. But its working, and its *very* useful. Which can't be a bad thing