Merry Christmas!
I like to post updates and projects as a present for Christmas, and this year I have...
A minor CaVE Update! Wooo!
But seriously, while I did decide to update CaVE with a few fixes and some feature tweaks, what I mainly have is the beginning of bringing CaVE more inline with what people may expect from it. I call it a Preset Database. What it does is, if you have appropriate Preset Database files installed, when you add a game all its information, including description and images are automatically set.
This feature has existed for a while, and while I intended for the N64 images collab to be a trail run... the author never made the images public. But that aside, the feature is now fully utilized with my first Preset Database release! SNES USA!
You can find out more
here. But the short description is, I generated info and images for 720 SNES USA games.
But this isn't just for new users that have yet to add the games. Thanks to the CaVE update you can import these presets to your current database... as long as your ROM's checksum matches.
My goal is to have info values that are as close to what Nintendo would do if they added the game themselves, with some caveats. I'm not saying than my SNES USA database is even 100% done. But it's good enough to probably make most people happy! NES, N64 and Genesis are supported, as well as Japanese, PAL and misc games like unlicensed or ROM hacks... but I have done little to no work on those, and have no clue if I personally want to work on them at all. I may move onto Super Famicom, or N64. Or I may do nothing more myself. But the project is available in a google sheet form, so it will be expandable by others if they want. I dont have everything figured out for how I would handle and manage that though.
Enjoy! =)