Unofficial RetroAchievements 1G1R DATs and CUEs/GDIs. 03 January 2025 Update 2

The one on RA read much cleaner to me? Am i missing something obvious that suggests a different name? See below for the example i quoted above:

• Black Cauldron, The - Disk 1 Back.nib[appleasimov]

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• Black Cauldron, The - Disk 1 Front.nib[appleasimov]

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• Black Cauldron, The - Disk 2 Back.nib[appleasimov]

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• Black Cauldron, The - Disk 2 Front.nib[appleasimov]

  89d90b22588fc4217348e334c60c6900

• Black Cauldron, The - Disk 3.nib[appleasimov]

  0d0ef0cace8ccde940c06781efe2fd78

• The Black Cauldron (4am and san inc crack) disk 1A.dsk

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• The Black Cauldron (4am and san inc crack) disk 1B.dsk

  6af43b5d837688b373529947d3fb04fc

• The Black Cauldron (4am and san inc crack) disk 2A.dsk

  9214fdb0b3a53c5f4160ac681a2002bd

• The Black Cauldron (4am and san inc crack) disk 2B.dsk

  a7cea209c45dacf4474753a701b4229d

• The Black Cauldron (4am and san inc crack) disk 3A.dsk

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• The Black Cauldron disk 1A.woz

  20521505afaa87bb93533172f0ab5467

• The Black Cauldron disk 1B.woz

  7ee36f4258c655325bef305300bd6f6e

• The Black Cauldron disk 2A.woz

  db2d941216029330a9fe89a65dfdd459

• The Black Cauldron disk 2B.woz

  a3fad474e60da976c32c29bf7db7d7f7

• The Black Cauldron disk 3.woz

  147464e241a0b6065c49e1880f0f6e0a

Yeah RA names are cleaner so I might have to look at renaming all the games in these dats.

Edited Monday at 02:05 PM by Ultra God Azgorath

Any chance to change the file names for "Black Cauldron" (Apple II) for the next DAT? I'd love to see how it impacts what I am doing with RomVault.

can you teach us how to set these dat files or send us an youtube video with the instructions? I´m newbee in this dat process. Thanks

59 minutes ago, steve1977 said:

Any chance to change the file names for "Black Cauldron" (Apple II) for the next DAT? I'd love to see how it impacts what I am doing with RomVault.

I'll see what I can do.

16 minutes ago, retrospace said:

can you teach us how to set these dat files or send us an youtube video with the instructions? I´m newbee in this dat process. Thanks

I'll try to make a tutorial video and add it to the zip download when I can get some free time from work to do it.

Thanks. "Black Cauldron" could be a great test whetehr this improves.

RomVault basically works straight out of the box. You copy the DAT zip file into the DAT folder of RomVault (and unzip it). You dump all ROMs into the rom folder of RomVault. You hit scan, then check fix, then fix. Then it's done! Super easy with no configuration needed.

I changed the DAT file myseld to match the RA web-site. But no improvement (beyond it looking slightly "cleaner"). So, it doesn't seem to be worth the effort to change the DAT

One question to you @Ultra God Azgorath: Does Launchbox identify "The Black Cauldron" as one game for Apple II or you have several entries. Automatically or did you manually somehow group them.

I did some digging. It seems the ones with cue files and the ones that you tag as "clone of" in the DAT files all show very nice & clean (grouped, metadata, etc.). The multi-disks without a tag / cue show as several entries in LaunchBox?

5 hours ago, steve1977 said:

I did some digging. It seems the ones with cue files and the ones that you tag as "clone of" in the DAT files all show very nice & clean (grouped, metadata, etc.). The multi-disks without a tag / cue show as several entries in LaunchBox?

If you tick this option during import then It'll combine all discs of a multi-disk game into 1 entry. If you untick it, each disk will be it's own entry.

Let me try. This works for you for all apple ii games?

I'll have to check when I get home. It depends on the Launchbox Database entries on those games.