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The Overkiller
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Registered: Mar 2002
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Adding games/crax
My two cents: I think it's senseless upload the pic of a group's intro instead of the game's pic. |
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cba
Registered: Apr 2002
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Quote: ..and to make it even better, theres still no standard amongst sorters how to actually name all titles put online :)
Yeah let's talk about that again , and why not crunch all sites together into one big c64 portal :-)
Name of the game . software company . amount of trainers . ntsc/pal fixed . cracking group . importing group . zip
is the standard at TDD since 1994.
Oh yeah Mace, you forgot www.c64.ch for demos. |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
I agree with the naming standard of TDD.
And I didn't forget c64.ch, it's in the 'etc.' somewhere in there ;-)
Which makes one wonder why there isn't a tool database! |
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TDJ
Registered: Dec 2001
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It's an outrage! People having different standards, what is this world coming to? |
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A Life in Hell
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Registered: May 2002
Posts: 204 |
Quote: It's an outrage! People having different standards, what is this world coming to?
indeed. everyone can get fucked. |
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Moloch
Registered: Jan 2002
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Lemmings! Borg! Get in line, you're only a number!
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
Quote: It's an outrage! People having different standards, what is this world coming to?
Files in a database like CSDb don't have to have any naming convention if they're stuck in the database. After all, the desired information is there as meta data.
On TDD however, the files form the database on their own, without any other meta data beside the name of the file itself. In this case, it is very important that all the files are named in an equal fashion.
To me it seems useless to discuss this matter of naming in a broad sense, as long as the objectives aren't the same.
Each database should have its own rules and ppl should stick to that. Don't try to exchange the lot, especially not in open and user-editable environments like the ones we're talking about. |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
Quote: scene database or not... I PREFER BOTH!!
Is it so hard to make a little gif-animation with a few screenshots??
When I add a game I always make a gif with screenshots from intro, game intro and a ingame-screenshot... and it doesn't take me much longer to get that .gif... just a few clicks more... (c;
Same here.
One should wonder what a screenshot's purpose is.
IMHO, the purpose is to show in an instant what version of what program (be it demo, game or anything else) it is and in such a way to it's quickly recognizable.
So if the intro is just a tiny white scroll on a black screen, then THAT is what makes it recognizable and thus it should be added in the screenshot.
However, as you'd be looking for a certain version of a game, it might come in handy to add a screenshot of the game too.
Most demos only have one entry in the database, so to make it recognizable, there should be an animated GIF. How else would you be able to find that certain demo of which you only now little, if you'd only recognize it by a certain effect in the 5th part?
Same goes for games. In some cases you can only know for sure if you have the right game if you see both the intro and the game itself, especially if you know as little about games as I do ;-) |
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TWR
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Then it's no need to add screenshots from old Mr.Z cracks, since they all look the same... |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
Quote: Then it's no need to add screenshots from old Mr.Z cracks, since they all look the same...
'Then' as in 'when you only do the intro'? |
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TWR
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Registered: Jan 2004
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Quote: 'Then' as in 'when you only do the intro'?
Exactamundo. |
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