[mythtv] mythgame : features...

[Kieron Wilkinson]

Greg Estabrooks wrote:
>>True. However, I think the GoodTools in this aspect is of limited use, 
>>because I don't think (??) you can get hold of the datasets and thus 
>>can't use it without doing some nasty call out to GoodXXX to rename a 
> 
>  There are a ton of dat files available out there which contain the info
> in a plaintext format.  Of course that info does not include things like 
> softwar make, or year of release. the country can be gleaned from the filename.
> Even xmame/mess include .hsi files for most game systems out there which 
> have crc -> Good Name info.

Ah. I didn't know that. Okay good. Is there a GoodAmiga now then? Last 
time I looked there was not many GoodTools for computer systems...

>>Which is more popular I don't know, but at least TOSEC is chang"open".
> 
>  The biggest problem I have no far is that while the tosec data contains more
> info per game it seems be be missing a lot of games. I took a random sample 
> of 30 roms and could not find matches for 28 of them. And I couldn't 
> find a single PC Engine(tg16) game in their lists.  Though I will continue to
> evaluate it's usefulness. In the end I want something that covers as wide 
> a range as possible and is as "generic" as possible.

Ah. Indeed, that does cause a problem doesn't it. Maybe some systems are 
more useful than others. I am not aware of a more complete (actually 
overkill IMHO) Amiga set.

>>Question: Is there any hard reliance on ADF files for the Amiga portion 
>>of MythGame? I have not had the opportunity to try it out yet, but I 
>>mainly use IPF images (Interchangeable Preservation Format) which are 
> 
>  The latest SVN available stuff is very flexible it comes to adding and 
> defining emulators, including the file extensions that are used. Other 
> than the gametype name "Amiga" nothing else is hardcoded. you specify what you
> want to call the emulators, the commandline, files extensions, etc etc

Nice! That sounds great. I'm going to set it up properly this weekend :)

Kieron