Open ocvit opened 9 months ago
Hello, for this repo I used Duckstation gamedb.json file.
Hi @xlenore,
Duckstation uses an approach of merging multiple editions of game into a single serial. It might work for ISOs with the same CRC, but it's a bad thing for us, because those editions might have completely different covers.
For example, Colin McRae Rally (PAL) [ITA]
was released in 4 editions:
SLES-01204
- OriginalSLES-01204#
- PlatinumSLES-01204#2
- Value SeriesSLES-01204#3
- BestsellersHere is Original:
And here is Platinum:
And they're simplified to a single SLES-01204
in gamedb.yaml
.
So is this repo Duckstation-specific, i.e. we should have games they support and in a format they prefer only? Or this should be a bigger and more accurate catalog of covers?
Thanks
I've compared current coverage stats with full catalog from Redump and it looks like the total counts are mostly lower than expected.
The number of image files in repo is also out of sync. As well as
missing_covers.txt
registry.Also, there are few serial types that were not mentioned before:
These serial types are not present on Redump:
I'm really curious about
SCEs
as it seems like a non-normalizedSCES
and it's not even present inmissing_covers.txt
.Anyway, is anybody in charge of these stats? And is this repo alive?