Zombeaver Posted September 8, 2021 Author Share Posted September 8, 2021 You can add your own games pretty easily. Some quick instructions can be found in this post: With that said, I always encourage people to just tell me what they want added and I'll add it. I've added Booty to my list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triumphofhearts Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 Thanks for this project! Quick heads up that may or may not be time sensitive - L'Abbaye des Morts is currently on sale for £0.00 if you click through the provided link in the first post, PLUS, Vegetables, included in C64 Dreams in its regular edition is also available for the low price of nothing if you wanted to upgrade the disk image to the Deluxe version. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triumphofhearts Posted September 19, 2021 Share Posted September 19, 2021 @ZombeaverJust having a browse of the library - Attack of the Mutant Camels doesn't seem to respond to the control scheme like other titles. Joystick movement doesn't register, and I had the click the left stick (which I don't think has a function assigned?) to progress past the trainer page. Just letting you know in case it got mixed with an older config or something similar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted September 19, 2021 Author Share Posted September 19, 2021 41 minutes ago, triumphofhearts said: @ZombeaverJust having a browse of the library - Attack of the Mutant Camels doesn't seem to respond to the control scheme like other titles. Joystick movement doesn't register, and I had the click the left stick (which I don't think has a function assigned?) to progress past the trainer page. Just letting you know in case it got mixed with an older config or something similar! Attack of the Mutant Camels is working correctly as-is. You probably switched ports by mistake (via L2/LT). The left stick button is "N". The right stick button is "Y". These are there primarily for trainers. Please read the instructions in the opening post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro_Rage Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Does anyone have a mirror for this? I Had in installed and had to redo. Now it seems that the Eye has been down for days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggi Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 anyone have a magnet link for the torrent ? this is on the dl site right now: The-Eye suffered some hardware failure this week, marking our longest downtime since we launched. We're not going anywhere but this accelerates a transition period we have been lulling in for awhile now. For the moment and while we work on what comes next we are only hosting data in support of the artificial intelligence and machine learning community. More information to follow, in the mean time join our discord and stay tuned. AI/ML data located here. ~ P.S. All previously hosted data is safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 I don't have a mirror currently. The Eye should be back before too long. Work continues on the update. The next 100 games have been added, tested, and configured. 747 Flight Simulator ACE (Air Combat Emulator) [Not in the DB] Amulet, The Ballyhoo Battle for Midway Battle of Britain Bombo Captain Kidd Codename-Mat II Colossus Chess 4 Comet Game, The Cops 'N' Robbers Crazy Comets Crusade in Europe Death Wake Decision in the Desert Deus Ex Machina Dicky's Diamonds Dynamite Dan FA Cup Football Faerie Falklands 82 Field of Fire Flight Path 737 Force, The Geoff Capes' Strongman Challenge Germany 1985 Gyroscope HardBall! Ice Station Zero Isle of the Cursed Prophet Iwo Jima Knights of the Desert Kong (Sputnik World) [Not in the DB] Lady Pac Lord of the Rings [DB note: this is not Fellowship of the Ring, this is a separate game - Fellowship of the Ring is this game and Lord of the Rings is this game but searching for this one just pulls Fellowship of the Ring] Lost Realms of Murkasada Lost Tomb Lucifer's Realm Magician's Ball, The Max Headroom Metabolis Mission Asteroid Mr. Mephisto Mugsy's Revenge Murdlok [Not in the DB] Ninja Carnage Nonterraqueous Norway 1985 Odyssey, The One Bite Too Deep Perry Mason - The Case of the Mandarin Murder Phantom of the Asteroid Ping Pong Popeye (Piranha) Quann Tulla Quest for the Holy Grail Radar Rat Race Rats, The Raven, The Revs RMS Titanic Scalextric Schizofrenia Seas of Blood Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, The Skool Daze Snow Queen, The Solo Flight - Second Edition Souls of Darkon Space Pilot II Speed Duel Speed King Spellbound (MAD) Spellbreaker Spitfire Ace Spy's Demise Starion Steve Davis Snooker Super Bowl XX Suspect Terrormolinos Tigers in the Snow Topper the Copper Tour de France Trollbound [Not in the DB] Ulysses and the Golden Fleece Vagan Attack Who Dares Wins II Wild West William Wobbler Willow Pattern Wishbringer Wizard and the Princess, The Wizard's Lair World Cup II World Cup Soccer Yabba Dabba Doo Zyto Zzzz All 200 of the current new games have been added to LB, 3D boxes created, and added to playlists in some cases. I parsed through all of the (4000+) new files in Ultimate Tape Archive V3.0 and pulled out, edited, and reformatted hundreds of new and upgraded manuals and covers. The total manual count is currently 1275 / 47.2% of the collection. I discovered a neat program called Mpxplay which has now been incorporated into the magazines and individual reviews - it's an mp3 player that runs fully in CMD (I've used mpg123 for this previously but this one is nicer), has playlist support, crossfades, and even has a neat frequency visualizer in the CMD window. I've got it setup with a playlist of 50 SID tracks which will randomize each time it's started. I have it setup with a script so that you can display and hide the player as well as skip and pause tracks via the numpad while reading the magazines. It can be disabled outright if so desired through the configurator but I thought this was a pretty neat touch. It should be noted that this only works for the local magazines. I've also created an updated game launcher bat which allows them to be generic/universal which helps simplify and streamline things going forward. I've gone back and replaced some of the existing ones but they won't all be replaced by the time of release - this doesn't actually hurt anything in any practical sense, it's just a backend thing. Thanks to Boohyaka of the eXo project for helping me work through how to create this! Someone (who wished to remain anonymous) was kind enough to help me by creating a plugin which allows me to add the Zzap review additional apps in LB en masse which is going to save me a boatload of time so that's a huge relief. All of the review files are setup for all the remaining titles that will be added in this update, but not all of them are in yet as only 200 of the planned 500 games for this update are setup. Currently there are 1059 Zzap reviews hooked up but that total will be around 1300 once the rest of the games are added. Anyway, that's it for now! More to come. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted November 16, 2021 Author Share Posted November 16, 2021 Okay, the next 100 games are done. I've decided that for the remaining 200 games in the update I'm going to be hand picking from among the remaining missing games that were reviewed in Zzap - thus far I've just been going straight down the line in issue order and adding in any that were missing but that's made it turn into more of a slog than I really wanted as that includes a fair number of games that I ordinarily wouldn't gravitate to or include. I expected a certain amount of that but... I really don't want to add in any more strategy games, flight sims, quiz games, or football managers this go round. There are like 15+ new strategy games by SSI and co in this update and I swear they all feel like the same game. I don't have enough room at this point to include all of the missing games from Zzap in this update anyway (there will be about 450 left over), so I'm going to focus on stuff that I would ordinarily be interested in already and then gradually fill in the rest over subsequent updates. Honestly I think this will end up making both you guys and me happier in the process. Latest one hundred games added, tested, and configured: Ace 2088 Acro Jet Alice in Wonderland Altered Beast Booty Caverns of Eriban, The Caves of Oberon, The Collapse Deactivators Droids Eddie Kid Jump Challenge Formula 1 Simulator Galaga Gates of the Ancient GBA Championship Basketball - Two-on-Two Genius 3 [Not in the DB] Granny's Cleaning Day [Not in the DB] Graviton Head Coach Hercules HES Games Jet Strike Mission Johnny Reb II Knight Rider Lapis Philosophorum - The Philosopher's Stone Las Vegas Video Poker Legions of Death Mandragore Mercenary - The Second City Miami Dice Mind Pursuit Moon Shuttle Motor Mania Mountain King Mr. TNT Mystery Voyage Necromancer Neutral Zone Night Knight NOMAD Ollie's Follies Ollo Ollo II Omega Race Pitstop Polar Pierre Powerplay - The Game of the Gods Price of Magik, The Psycho Pigs UXB Questprobe I - The Incredible Hulk Questprobe III - The Fantastic Four Rebel Planet Red Max Redhawk Return of the Space Warriors RodMan [Not in the DB] Room Ten Rootin' Tootin' Saboteur Saboteur II Samantha Fox Strip Poker Sammy Lightfoot Scrolls of Abadon, The Seabase Delta Seafox Serpentine Shogun Slicks Solar Fox Sorcery Southern Belle Space Panic Spherical Spiky Harold Split Personalities Star Paws Stix Storm Street Surfer Superstar Ping-Pong Tarkus [Not in the DB] Thai Boxing Touchdown Football Toy Bizarre Trap Trap Door, The Triaxos Trivial Pursuit Tubular Bells Very Big Cave Adventure, The Nam WAR Way of the Tiger Wing Commander Winter Camp Wizard of Id's Wiztype, The Wizard's Pet, The World Cup Carnival Zone Ranger Zybex I've also created a playlist for all the games currently in the collection that have Zzap reviews so those will all be quickly accessible in one place. I have about 150 of the remaining 200 slots picked out already, so if anyone has any specific requests for this update, please get them in now. More to come! Also, seeing as The-Eye is still down, I wanted to post a mirror of the v0.35 torrent that someone on my Discord found. It's located here: https://www.btdig.com/c2718c9fe05c72780aa02fa2a42bc8b852f0cd0f/c64-dreams 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocketeer Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 This is awesome Zombeaver. Thanks for another amazing update! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 Hey Zomb, since you’re asking, I’d like to request a few games that I couldn't find in your collection: Colossal Cave Adventure Exploding Fist + (aka Fist +) Match Day II Red Storm Rising Silent Shadow Uridium Plus & Paradroid: Competition Edition Who Dares Wins I also want to thank you for maintaining and sharing this project here. You put hundreds, if not thousands, of hours work into this, so I don’t have to, I appreciate that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted November 16, 2021 Author Share Posted November 16, 2021 1 hour ago, CriticalCid said: Hey Zomb, since you’re asking, I’d like to request a few games that I couldn't find in your collection: Colossal Cave Adventure Exploding Fist + (aka Fist +) Match Day II Red Storm Rising Silent Shadow Uridium Plus & Paradroid: Competition Edition Who Dares Wins You got it! I'll add all those in the next batch. I actually had Exploding Fist+ on the list for the next batch already and when I added in Who Dares Wins II in one of the previous ones I realized I didn't have the first one (the second one was reviewed in Zzap, the first one wasn't) so I knew I needed to eventually add it as well. 1 hour ago, CriticalCid said: I also want to thank you for maintaining and sharing this project here. You put hundreds, if not thousands, of hours work into this, so I don’t have to, I appreciate that! You're very welcome! (and it's definitely thousands at this point lol) 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eli517 Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 thanks for you hard work with this project and for sharing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eli517 Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 is the future build going to have a lot changes that will make it easier to import into a launchbox running setup? I ask cause I currently have the version 35 build installed/imported into my LB setup and wondering if the new build will break my current setup or will it be as simple as just copy and replace under the same folders as before...please let us know cause I am sure this question will come up again....thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted November 20, 2021 Author Share Posted November 20, 2021 On 11/18/2021 at 5:01 PM, eli517 said: is the future build going to have a lot changes that will make it easier to import into a launchbox running setup? I ask cause I currently have the version 35 build installed/imported into my LB setup and wondering if the new build will break my current setup or will it be as simple as just copy and replace under the same folders as before...please let us know cause I am sure this question will come up again....thanks. The process will be the same as in the past versions. There will be a list of files that you'll need to copy over located at C64 Dreams\C64 Dreams\Docs\Files to Import.txt and data to paste into the parents and platforms xmls (if you've done this previously you could technically skip this part and just associate the new ones manually, as long as you know how to assign parents in LB, the only new ones from v0.35 will be "Best Of - Vol. 6", "Best Of - Vol. 7", and "Zzap Reviewed", they would both just need to be assigned to "Games" as shown below; the platforms xml is unchanged from v0.35). You'll want to delete the old folders first so that you get rid of any redundant files (sometimes library titles change slightly, for example, so the media names change with them). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xasiklas Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Hello there, the-eye has been down for over a month now, any chance the torrent be uploaded someplace else? Thank you for all your work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted November 30, 2021 Author Share Posted November 30, 2021 11 minutes ago, xasiklas said: Hello there, the-eye has been down for over a month now, any chance the torrent be uploaded someplace else? Thank you for all your work I listed an alternative at the bottom of this post: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/49324-c64-dreams-massive-curated-c64-collection/?do=findComment&comment=396075 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xasiklas Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Siren Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 I wanted to ask which naming do you use? Which database? Do you mix the names from different bases? I am asking because I wanted to merge it with my own collection, which is based on Mobygames names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted December 9, 2021 Author Share Posted December 9, 2021 It doesn't use any one database for naming. It's a combination of GB64, Mobygames, LBGDB, etc. The titles are (almost) all PAL (i.e. Thing Bounces Back rather than Coil Cop) but there's going to be some slight variation from any one database. I would highly discourage you from attempting to strip out/merge this with anything else. I've spent literally years of my life getting this stuff setup in such a way that it provides as ideal an experience as possible for each game. They are not designed to be pulled out like that. If you have existing games that you want added to C64 Dreams, my suggestion would be to provide a list of what it is that you want and I can add them in. If it's something you want to play, chances are it's something someone else will want to play. And in the interim, I provide the option to add in your own games with the included automation tools (C64 Dreams\C64 Dream\Utilities\Creation Tools). You just drag your .d64s, .t64s, etc. onto the Automator and then it'll create things as needed, you just have to move the resultant folders to the Games folder and then start the .vbs file within. You may still have to set them up to change the joystick port, enable truedrive, or adjust cropping however, but that's not too difficult. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Siren Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 On 12/9/2021 at 1:23 AM, Zombeaver said: I would highly discourage you from attempting to strip out/merge this with anything else. I don't intend to mess anything up. I just want to add many custom fields to the existing games. And to do that, the names have to agree. I don't even need to change the names. Just match them and add metadata so that it is consistent with the rest of my collection (other platforms) etc. The option to add your own games is a great idea, however. Keep it up. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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