intvsteve / VINTage

Various Intellivision-related projects, including the LTO Flash! User Interface application.
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Add metadata for TheGamesDB to games database #206

Open intvsteve opened 6 years ago

intvsteve commented 6 years ago

It may be extremely helpful to add support for "standard" ROM file names so scraping tools that operate on file names can be used, e.g. The Games DB.net. Need to see how that would work for Intellivision.

intvsteve commented 6 years ago

Would be nice to just create a custom Intellivision scraper. Each entry contains the following fields: Name - string Description - string Image - string (path) Video - string (path) - formats? Marquee string (path) - supported file formats? Thumbnail - string (path) (not used?) Rating - double - 0-1 Release Date - date time format, e.g. %Y%m%dT%H%M%S%F%q - YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS - time ignored Developer - string Publisher - string Genre - string Players - integer Favorite - bool - update favorites? Hidden - bool - hide from list? Kidgame - bool - true if kid-friendly?

For a folder: name desc image thumbnail (not used?)

More info here.

A stub example: ` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

./Super Mario World (USA).sfc Super Mario World (USA) Mario's off on his biggest adventure ever, and this time he's brought along a friend. Yoshi the dinosaur teams up with Mario to battle Bowser, who has kidnapped Princess Toadstool once again. Guide Mario and Yoshi through nine peril-filled worlds to the final showdown in Bowser's castle. Use Mario's new powers and Yoshi's voracious monster-gobbling appetite as you explore 96 levels filled with dangerous new monsters and traps. Climb mountains and cross rivers, and descend into subterranean depths. Destroy the seven Koopa castles and find keys to gain entrance to hidden levels. Discover more warps and thrilling bonus worlds than ever before! Mario's back, and this time he's better than ever! ./images/Super Mario World (USA)-image.png 0.73704 19901121T000000 Nintendo Nintendo Platform 2

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