Another little decision I'm making here, again regarding the release numbers. If I disclude NUKED roms the numerical order will look as if it's misisng games.
Example:
0004 - Feel the Magic - XY/XX (U)
0006 - Polarium (U)
Now I have been carefully going through every release dump and some of these NUKES have good reason for being NUKES. Mostly it's just Golden Sun Team (all their dumps appear to be NUKES), but there are some others that may have bad sectors or have been incorrectly dumped using certain tools. Now for those who wish to "collect" NDS roms, should go and get Rom Center and the latest update of PocketHeaven's NDS .dat file (I'm not going to provide a link because I've provided it at least 5 times now in just about every NDS forum I've posted in). But I'm going to stick just with games that have been declared to have anything wrong with them, if that's okay??
For starters, I think this is going to be a more detailed and specific list than most compatibility lists normally are. I mean, I honestly would not have cared what the CRC code of my games were, or at least until I began helping out with the NDS.
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Actually I'm not too sure anymore (I hate it when things get complicated) should I continue just doing the goodRoms??? Or Should I do all the numbered released games (despite some of them being down as NUKED, according to PocketHeaven)?? Or should I just do the whole lot (including NUKES and everything??). It was much simpler when it was just, GAME, COUNTRY and HOW'S IT RUN ON THE EMU. And now there's all this detail and stuff...
Which direction should I take??
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I'm sorry if I keep changing my mind, but all of the above will be scratched, because this was a compatibility list, not a rom database. What I have been originally trying to do was an overall playability for games on iDeaS, none of this rom release number and CRC crap. I agree it's all very important and all that, but a compatibility list shouldn't need any of that stuff (or at least mine won't) I'm sure if someone went and got every Super Mario 64 DS (U) rom and tried it on iDeaS (or any emulator at that) they would probably get the same results, unless of course the rom was a bad dump. But if anyone is going to use such information casually as CRC and release number (and whatever other information they choose) I don't see why I should have all that detailed information for it. A lot of people would not even know what a CRC is anyway so what use would it be to them??
Another thing that I'm pretty sure of is that most compat lists only get as detailed as the SERIAL number as such, ie ckemu's Dolphin Compat List. So why should the one I'm constructing be anymore complicated??
I'm going to stick with what diablow said (not pinning anything on him at all of course) and keep it simple, for that was what I originally planned. Sorry if I sound grouchy or anything, I've just been the net for the past 3-4 days (on roughly 6 hour periods) trying to collect data on NDS games, and I'm finding it difficult to create a list that will adequetly hold all that information I was going to include. So what I'll do is if anyone asks, I just direct them to a place such as PocketHeaven.com where they can figure out which roms are the ones they should be using because that is what places like PocketHeaven were designed for, not for people like me to just use all their info and make a mirror of all their hard work.
I'm very pleased with all the effort with testing that has gone into the NDS, particularly with RockmanGames who has continued to increase the number of tested games on iDeaS...GREAT JOB!!
Besides, people think the compatibility list is good as it is, it already has 300 ORIGINAL games in its database and if I went included all the others, there would be something like 400+ which would only be duplicates and hacks of the originals. Who honestly wants more than one of a kind??
I think that's all I've got to say, sorry again for sounding grouchy or anything, but too much of a good thing isn't always such a good thing...