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Hello. I use gamebase for a year and a half now and it is an very good program and so is gamebase64...but i have a problem: i have many games that don't have gamebase filenames (either short or long), can i rename them with tosec and then somehow convert the tosec filenames into gamebase64 filenames?

Try TIM:

http://www.tosec.info/modules/news/

Or follow this URL: http://www.gamebase64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1251

Thank you. I already have tim and goodgb64. so i must first rename them with tim and this will give them a kind of long filenames and then convert them to short filenames with goodgb64, is that it? i Understand. thank you again, i will try it.

No need to touch TIM (buggy pile of p**) at all, just use the GoodGB64 short filename dat in clrmame.

Thank you very much for the info...but unfortunatly cmpro with the
help from the goodgb64 dat is incapable (almost) of sorting out my games with proper filenames,it doesn't even "See" them, with a sole exception of one.Although it does a crc check it can't find them.I noticed that if i download a file from the links provided to this site and rename them with a random name manually, the goodgb64dat-cmpro succeeds in finding it: it detects its filename via crc (or shai i don't know) but it is incapable to indentify my games-that i collected over the years from other sources-and that means that its crc numbers aren't included in the goodgb64 dat and so i assume that my games aren't included in the gamebase64 collection. That is truly peculiar!? Is that because my games may be bad dumbs or hacks or include different highscore tables or they are just unindentified versions-editions of the games included in the gamebase64 collection?

Anonymous wrote:Is that because my games may be bad dumbs or hacks or include different highscore tables or they are just unindentified versions-editions of the games included in the gamebase64 collection?

Yes basically that's it. We don't and never will include every version of a game ever published. We try and database only the best cracked version (generally with a GB64 unique disk label so the crc32 is unique to GB64) + any original versions we can get. With odd exceptions anything you've downloaded in the past from other C64 sites will NOT be recognised by GB64. Best bet is to download the GB64 CDs.

Yes,that makes sense.It would be almost impossible,unpractical and totally useless to include all the cassete-cartidge images in existanse.Anyway could you please tell me the most possible ways i could locate these cds( preferably not with a peer to peer program) and how many cds are they?

Check the previous thread or the sticky posts at the top of the GB Collection section of this forum.