Hacking GameTDB - game information database + covers

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zorglub07 said:
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well I have the path setup correctly but 2 3d covers are not found for the GX while it's found for the Configurable, "Dragon Blade: Wrath of Fire" and "The Bigs 2" are the 2 games, also there are 90 disc image files not found as well for the GX, so I have no idea what is wrong?
There is a brand new set of 3D covers, so maybe those are missing from the old set. I left the old set on the site to leave time for loaders to change the paths.
I'm adding the new US 3D covers to the old folder as a temporary solution, but the "ntsc3d" folder will be removed soon.
GX is not set up to download all covers and disc art yet, it needs an option to chose between original disc artwork and custom disc artwork (it would fall back if the preferred style is not available, or to another region), and get the covers matching the language setting. CFG Loader is not set up for that either.


oh ok, I did see that the 2 games are listed on the website which I downloaded it manually, guess I have to download the disc images manually as well, thanks
 

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mousex said:
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Tagg7 said:
I was just going through some more stuff today, and I saw that the PAL release of Wii Sports Resort has crc/md5 codes.
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How is this possible, lol?

just because i work in gameshop and have dump the wii sports resort pal i've received for demo
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So many game shop employes must have such a dump by now and it's not on the (public) net, yet?
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sorry but i didn't uplaod a game before the release date
so i never released anything cause there are always other people who leak before the date
just be patient
 

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I didn't say that you should upload it.
I know that you are just one of thousands who got the disc and maybe of dozens who dumped them
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and that it is available on Usenet faster than you can upload
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Nice database. I've made a couple of edits on it. A couple of things:

1, For NiGHTS, the game requires either a Wiimote or a GameCube controller. Optionally it can also be played with a Nunchuk or Classic Controller. How would you represent that in the database? I don't just want to add gamecube to the required controller list, as that would make it look like both a Wiimote and GameCube controller were required, and I don't want to put gamecube in Optional as then it looks like you require a Wiimote when technically you don't.

2, It might be nice to have a link on the left-hand side to this thread, so people know where to discuss it.
 

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Thank you very much for creating this nice database for cover and disk downloading.

I am sorry if this is the wrong place to say this, but I have a couple of suggestions...

1, when browsing the site, searching for "Nights Journey of Dreams" would only give me the Japanese release, which was named exactly "Nights Journey of Dreams" and not the US release, "NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams". I was thinking, that when searching, the database would store or convert all game names to all uppercase + numbers without spaces and symbols, so that way, "Mariokart Wii" and "Mario Kart: WII" would all work.

2, maybe you could store specifics about how many times a cover has been downloaded, and through what loader. I don't know how one would work that, but if it were, like, a system in PHP, where it was like, "getcover.php?g=RSBE01&c=full&loader=usbloadergx" then the system could easily keep track of which covers were downloaded by what, and how many times.

The second point was merely somehing more of an enhancement for maybe those interested in stat tracking, but... yeah. That's all. I like the database, though!
 

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Deviyl said:
Does this work with Hiberns Coverflow Loader?I don't think so, but I think they plan to do it, if only for the covers.
There are already some higher resolution covers meant for this loader on the server
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pelago said:
Nice database. I've made a couple of edits on it. A couple of things:
1, For NiGHTS, the game requires either a Wiimote or a GameCube controller. Optionally it can also be played with a Nunchuk or Classic Controller. How would you represent that in the database? I don't just want to add gamecube to the required controller list, as that would make it look like both a Wiimote and GameCube controller were required, and I don't want to put gamecube in Optional as then it looks like you require a Wiimote when technically you don't.
2, It might be nice to have a link on the left-hand side to this thread, so people know where to discuss it.About NiGHTS, I understand what you mean, but since everybody has a Wiimote and a choice has to be made, I would put wiimote as required, and gamecube,nunchuck,classiccontroller as optional. I think when gamecube appears in the list, required or optional, people understand they don't need to use it at the same time as the wiimote, it generally belongs to optional.
A link to this thread should appear on the home page when you are logged in, but I added it to the side bar so that it is easy to notice now.

QUOTE(devmas @ Jul 14 2009, 01:45 AM)
I am sorry if this is the wrong place to say this, but I have a couple of suggestions...
1, when browsing the site, searching for "Nights Journey of Dreams" would only give me the Japanese release, which was named exactly "Nights Journey of Dreams" and not the US release, "NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams".
This is the right place, don't worry.
It should find all NiGHTS game if you just type "nights", I agree it is not convenient if you copy/paste, but it's ok if you type "nights,"kart"... you can also access the game page directly if you know the game ID : http://wiitdb.com/Game/RENP8P
I'm not sure about stats per loader, but even though eye candy is not the main priority, it will probably happen at some point.
 

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Hello, i have to say all the cover for RVUP8P EN are bad and i can't upload the good one for the fullcover.

I have found another games with bad english cover (use US cover), like: RJ2P52 (lol the +3 PEGI on the cover ^^), RCDP52 (US fullcover & 3D), RHSP36 (full & 3D), RLGP64 (full & 3D), RLIP64 (3D & full), RWSP8P(full & 3D are AU not EN), RM8P01
(full & 3D are AU not EN), RMLPH4 (i think is AU full & 3D cover), RM3P01 (i think is AU full & 3D cover), RKMP5D (i think is AU full & 3D cover), REDP41 (i think is AU full & 3D cover), RB4P08( 3D & full US version), RT3P54 (full cover is US and FR fuyll cover is the EN one), RP2P69 (i think is AU full & 3D cover)

There's an error on fullcover & 3D cover for DE RH6P69

I have all the good one fullcover ready to upload
 

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didn't have time to check all the games you talked about , but the FR fullcover for RT3P54 (table tennis) , is the french fullcover....
i uploaded it myself.
it's easy to check , only french covers have that red square on the back , and if you do a right clik on it and choose "display the image" , you will see it bigger , and you will see that the text is french
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btw , you can send me links to your fullcovers by PM , and i'll upload them after a little check
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@deviyl : doesn't work for wiiflow for the moment , just wait for the next release of wiiflow and it will be done.
 

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zorglub07 said:
A link to this thread should appear on the home page when you are logged in, but I added it to the side bar so that it is easy to notice now.
Thanks.

Regarding logging in, it would be nice if you could add a tickbox to remember the login via a cookie for, say, 30 days.
 

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Also, when searching and more than 25 results are shown, the results list is split into multiple pages, which is fine. However, the text at the bottom of the each results page is a little strange. E.g. with 35 results, page one says "25 pages found" and page 2 says "10 pages found." Maybe it should say something like "Showing results 1 to 25 of 35" and "Showing results 26 to 35 of 35".
 

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to Yod4z, I have been fixing the kind of issues you were talking about, maybe I forgot some but there should be less "wrong regions" now.

pelago said:
Regarding logging in, it would be nice if you could add a tickbox to remember the login via a cookie for, say, 30 days.Why not, I'll look into it later.
QUOTE(pelago @ Jul 14 2009, 02:58 PM) the text at the bottom of the each results page is a little strange.
It's fixed now, I removed it as it was a bit redundant
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zorglub07 said:
to Yod4z, I have been fixing the kind of issues you were talking about, maybe I forgot some but there should be less "wrong regions" now.
You can creat the cover & 3D cover of RVUP8P with the fullcover.
I see not all change i have said. I have send a like to Benjay with the good cover may be after he would change them.
 

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This was planned for later, but seeing how the database grew so big in so little time and memory use could start becoming an issue, a list of game can now be passed in the URL for wiitdb.zip to limit the downloaded information to a list of installed games: wiitdb.zip?ID=RMGP,RENP
ID3, ID4 and ID6 can be used.
A juvenile prankster that doesn't deserve to be mentioned added support for this in USB Loader GX last night
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zorglub07 said:
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But we include desciptions in all languages even if the game does not support them?
No, only add the description (synopsis) for a language if the game supports that language.
So, I inspected the German Simpsons disc in Wiiscrubber and it only has German (ge) files, the Homemenu is available in ENG,FRA,GER,ITA,NED,SPA but the Game langugae is only German. So I'll delete the foreign desciptions from the German ID, right?

EDIT:
Another point: Most English PAL disc images are wrong, nearly all of the games (I own) have the German USK Logo.
 

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zorglub07 said:
This was planned for later, but seeing how the database grew so big in so little time and memory use could start becoming an issue, a list of game can now be passed in the URL for wiitdb.zip to limit the downloaded information to a list of installed games: wiitdb.zip?ID=RMGP,RENP
ID3, ID4 and ID6 can be used.
A juvenile prankster that doesn't deserve to be mentioned added support for this in USB Loader GX last night
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Zorglub07,

great new feature.
one comment (idea ?)

maybe you could consider adding options to download the wiitdb file containing
only one region games (pal/ntsc/ntsc-j) or any mix
and/or regional games (US/EN/FR/ES/IT/NL) or any mix

just out of the blue.
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Cheers,
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mousex said:
but the Game langugae is only German. So I'll delete the foreign desciptions from the German ID, right?
Another point: Most English PAL disc images are wrong, nearly all of the games (I own) have the German USK Logo.Good question! If the only in-game language is German I think it's safe to remove the other descriptions.
Are you looking at custom discs or original disc images? For custom disc artwork this is not unusual.
If you meant original discs, i wouldn't say "most", but it seems like a few "wrong region" original disc artwork were uploaded.
A big disc artwork update is planned so it will get fixed after the update.

QUOTE(redia @ Jul 15 2009, 09:00 AM) maybe you could consider adding options to download the wiitdb file containing
only one region games (pal/ntsc/ntsc-j) or any mix
and/or regional games (US/EN/FR/ES/IT/NL) or any mix
Sure, this was originally planned as well, a language filter will probably be added (even though the file is around 50KB zipped for someone with a hundred games)
When using ID4 (which is what GX uses) it will only download the games you have, so if you only have PAL it won't download info for any NTSC version.
The "region" filter could be added when using ID3, but if someone has an import it wouldn't be downloaded so that's not practical.
 

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zorglub07 said:
redia said:
maybe you could consider adding options to download the wiitdb file containing
only one region games (pal/ntsc/ntsc-j) or any mix
and/or regional games (US/EN/FR/ES/IT/NL) or any mix
Sure, this was originally planned as well, a language filter will probably be added (even though the file is around 50KB zipped for someone with a hundred games)
When using ID4 (which is what GX uses) it will only download the games you have, so if you only have PAL it won't download info for any NTSC version.
The "region" filter could be added when using ID3, but if someone has an import it wouldn't be downloaded so that's not practical.

Zorglub07,
I guess I will simply wait to see the results. I did not understand why we should need all "locale" entries when downing one game
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Cheers, and thanks for taking the time to answer to all of us.
R
 

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