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The Errand Boy (English) [Spectrum Computing]
The Errand Boy (Spanish) [Spectrum Computing]
Maze Death Rally-X [Spectrum Computing]
The Mystery of Markham Manor [Spectrum Computing]
Seto Taisho vs Yokai (English, Italian) (alt) [Spectrum Computing]
Seto Taisho vs Yokai (German, Spanish) (alt) [Spectrum Computing]
Seto Taisho vs Yokai (French, Portuguese) (alt) [Spectrum Computing]
SQIJ 2018 [Tardis Remakes]
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Bonnie and Clyde [Spectrum Computing]
Crazy Cars II (Proein) [El Trastero del Spectrum]
Drift! [Spectrum Computing]
The Ultimate Disc Copier [El Trastero del Spectrum]
Wonderful Dizzy [Spectrum Computing]
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La Espada Sagrada [El Trastero del Spectrum]
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DreamWalker: Alter Ego 2 (v1.0) [RetroSouls]
Gluf [RetroSouls]
Sun Bucket [Spectrum Computing]
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19 Part One - Boot Camp [El Trastero del Spectrum]
2 por 1: Rock'n Roller + Wells & Fargo [Steven Brown, Planeta Sinclair]
Averno [Steven Brown, Planeta Sinclair]
Dragons of Flame [El Trastero del Spectrum]
Dungeons of Gomilandia (v0.1a) [RetroWorks]
Dungeons of Gomilandia (v0.1) [Spectrum Computing]
El Asombroso Spider-Man y Capitán America en La Venganza del Dr. Muerte! [El Trastero del Spectrum]
El Equipo A [El Trastero del Spectrum]
Frightmare (Zafiro) [El Trastero del Spectrum]
Gunship (Erbe, alt) [El Trastero del Spectrum]
High Steel (Erbe, alt) [Steven Brown, Planeta Sinclair]
Pit-Fighter (Dro Soft) [El Trastero del Spectrum]
Power Magic (alt) [El Trastero del Spectrum]
Rainbow Islands (Erbe, alt) [El Trastero del Spectrum]
Reaper [Spectrum Computing]
Renaud [El Trastero del Spectrum]
Seto Taisho Special Edition [Spectrum Computing]
Shadow Warriors (Erbe) [El Trastero del Spectrum]
Solo [El Trastero del Spectrum]
Starlife [El Trastero del Spectrum]
Test Match [Steven Brown, Planeta Sinclair]
The Dragonslayer Trilogy [Steven Brown, Planeta Sinclair]
The Duel - Test Drive II (Dro Soft) [El Trastero del Spectrum]
The Sunflower Number Show (alt) [Steven Brown, Planeta Sinclair]
The Tears of the Moon + Laskar's Crystals [Steven Brown, Planeta Sinclair]
Ulises [El Trastero del Spectrum]
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Heavy Metal [El Trastero del Spectrum]
Skate Wars [Steven Brown, Planeta Sinclair]
Spectrum +3 Spectacular [Steven Brown, Planeta Sinclair]
The Archon Collection [Steven Brown, Planeta Sinclair]
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NARC (Erbe) [El Trastero del Spectrum]
Metadata cleanups: update descriptions, added region and language info tag, moved XML comments to XML notes tag
There are a number of places where multiple spaces were being used
intentionally (extracted directly from disk labels, separating titles
from subtitles, tabulation, etc.).
Also fixed misspelled Twinbee Yahho titles.
* [specpls3_flop.xml] Added 3 dumps, cleanup
Softlist additions:
- Sol Negro: Both sides of the original Spanish edition, with the disk protection intact (which crashes MAME). Previous entry had been cracked to remove protection. [Fede Jerez]
- Simulation Hits (Spain) : Best available dump of Side B. [Fede Jerez]
- LED Storm Rally 2011: Both sides of the original protected dump (also crashes MAME). [Tom Dalby]
- Manic Pietro [Spectrum Computing]
- Tiki Taca [Spectrum Computing]
Multiple cleanups including removal of empty side labels, useless "offset", changing "Spa" to "Spain", etc.
Ordered all entries alphabetically, now the softlist is way easier to navigate/update and IPF parents are next to their respective clones. As in other softlists, SPS releases are already labeled as such.
Added instructions on loading +3 disks and other observations. Reworded, merged and updated some of the existing comments.
* Cleaned up spaces in software list comments.
* megadriv.xml: Improperly indented sharedfeat tag.
* gbcolor.xml: Converted "GBC only" comments into sharedfeat tags.
* a5200.hsi: Fixed a few dispossessed tags.
* Various softlists: Fixed improperly entabulated tags.
* Various softlists: More entabulation fixes.
timex_cass.xml, spectrum_cass.xml:
* Added a list of the known covertapes of "Byte Power, 1st Class Magazine" as well as the only known dump.
* Moved games published by Timex actually made for the Spectrum to appropriate list.
* Replaced two dumps with better versions.
specpls3.xml:
* Verified that Spectrum disk version of Comando Tracer is the standalone release.
* Updated notes.
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Byte Power (February 1988)
The free-for-all on labels in software lists is not working. There's no
consistency, labels are getting excessively long, people are starting to
use non-ASCII characters in labels making it harder for others to type
them when manipulating files on the command line, and there's too much
markup being put in labels.
The length limit is 127 characters, same as for labels in MAME itself.
This should be long enough to be descriptive. Remember that the Win32
path limit is 260 characters, and many applications and frameworks have
issues with longer paths, including Windows Explorer and the .NET
framework. Labels are used as filenames, so concessions need to be
made for this.
I have not abbreviated excessively long labels myself - they're
currently causing 135 validity errors. Someone else can fix them.
Printable ASCII characters are allowed, with a few exceptions. The
exceptions are limited to characters most likely to cause issues for
interactive shells and scripts:
* ! - csh event substitution (very difficult to escape properly)
* $ - sh varibale expansion
* % - csh job control, cmd variable expansion
* / - UNIX directory separator
* : - sh path separator, Windows drive qualifier
* \ - sh escape, Windows directory separator
Most of the labels that had to be edited were using ! for markup, or
using ! and % for titles in labels. Strangely, titles in labels are
often forced to lower case, despite this never being enforced for
software lists. There are also various other edits to titles used for
labels, such as moving articles to the end (with or without a comma),
or replacing spaces with underscores. As I already said, there's no
consistency at all.
There is far too much markup in labels. They're even being used for
notes in some cases (e.g. at least one case where a dumper's name is in
the label). The XML schema supports metadata - use it. For example,
you can use part_id for an unrestricted display name for a software
part. You can also use XML comments for notes.
And while on the topic of metadata, vgmplay.xml is putting the same
thing in the part_id as well as the label. The part_id should have
the actual title, not the title mangled to make it more suitable for
use as a filename. Addressing this would be a lot of work, given how
large the file is.
For now, empty data areas in software lists cause a verbose message
rather than a validation warning. There are thousands of software
lists using empty data areas to indicate the size/width of cartridge
RAM/EEPROM/etc.
romload.cpp: reduce copy-pasta (nw)
(nw) I fixed the errors found by adding validation to software list data areas.
Most of them seem to be simple copy-paste errors hidden by the fact that the
default device_image_interface loader ignores the data area size (as opposed to
the "ROM" loader). There was one C64 cartridge with a missing zero on the data
area size that was pretty clearly wrong.
* specpls3_flop.xml: Added missing IPFs info, minor changes.
Added the known CRC info of the missing IPF files, now all three of them have their own (commented out) entries.
Also renamed the Ghouls 'n' Ghosts IPF just for consistency with the others (after making sure that it was the official one), and ordered the IPFs alphabetically.
No files have been added or deleted.
* specpls3_flop.xml: Added size of missing IPFs
Added the apparent size of the three missing IPFs.
* fixed previous commit
-Documented Rescate Atlántida being a dual Spectrum+Amstrad release.
-Documented Comando Tracer being a dual Spectrum+Amstrad release (though it's still not clear which version did the current dump come from).
-Changed Comando Tracer's year of release to 1988.
-Split the two Navy Moves Spanish editions correctly (standalone and dual Spectrum+Amstrad).
-Removed one Navy Moves duplicate which only had an altered header.
-Added new parent/clone relationship between Wanderer 3D UK and Spanish versions.
-Cosmetic changes:
--Moved the relevant comments into their respective entries/floppies.
--Reworded a few things.
Get rid of a couple of copies of the CC0 text. Add header comment to
CC0 files to remind people editing them what the terms are. Also add
some missing XML headers. The header comments in layouts won't bloat
the binary - they get stripped out before compressing, same as any other
comments.
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* specpls3_flop.xml: New additions
Added side A of the LC-10 Colour Screen printer driver disk, dumped by Guy Bearman.
Also corrected a couple of entries after asking around and doing some additional research.
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New:
-Full Samdisk dump of Mercs, including both sides.
-Spanish version of 4 Soccer Simulators.
Thanks go to Gorski and ZXdenied.
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Added more disk images, some of which were previously missing from the internet due to them being considered "Distribution Denied".
Thanks go to: Antonio M, Fede Jerez, Gorski, Jaime González Soriano, José Manuel, Marino Arribas, Metalbrain, robcfg, Simon Owen, Syx, Zup and TZX Vault.
Also fixed a few things here and there (extra line breaks, full company names, capital letters...).
NOTE: Due to the addition of a UK version of Navy Seals, the Spanish version has been renamed from "navyseal" to "navysealsp" and is now a clone of the new "navyseal".
This effectively reverts b380514764 and
c24473ddff, restoring the state at
598cd52272.
Before pushing, please check that what you're about to push is sane.
Check your local commit log and ensure there isn't anything out-of-place
before pushing to mainline. When things like this happen, it wastes
everyone's time. I really don't need this in a week when real work™ is
busting my balls and I'm behind where I want to be with preparing for
MAME release.
* Latest TOSEC additions
These changes add most of the DSKs featured in the latest TOSEC DAT files which, according to Lady Eklipse, include all files that were in TOSEC and all files from www.worldofspectrum.org which were never in TOSEC before. Which file and update they come from is commented for each entry, so that they can be consulted.
Files removed:
- Files marked as "bad dumps" which have a "good" parent set.
- Trained games, except for a "cheat version" of Neighbours which may have come from the original developers.
- 80-track (3.5'') disk images.
- Files generated with the ZXZVM interpreter.
- Games from the Crap Games Competition.
All the DSK files which have a corresponding IPF have been labeled as "alt" clones until they're confirmed to come from the exact same release and can be safely removed (there's an added disclaimer about it in each of these entries, to make them easy to locate).
Other alt versions not in World of Spectrum have been kept for the same reason, since the exact source of each file doesn't seem to be properly documented anywhere, which means they'd need some research before a safe removal.
Notes about the known DSK dumps:
-Some dumps may come with an empty Side B, which is technically correct for games which were released with an empty side on purpose. These were usually labeled as "Sin grabar para tu uso" ("Unrecorded for your use") in many Spanish releases.
-Some of the "master disks" from Zeppelin Games share the same file (same SHA-1) for their Side B. This has been verified against the downloads available in World of Spectrum.
-A few releases had a version for a different system on the other side. These have been commented out but not removed, for reference.
I'm listing here some unofficial/homebrew disk collections which may or may not qualify to be included, so that you can decide their fate:
"Javier Herrera Games Collection": A bunch of well-known commercial games put in many disks.
"Jesus Tejero Software Collection": 48K games ported to many disks.
"Jesus Tejero Tools Collection": This disks include a bunch of utilities for +3 disks such as an "autoload sector creator", some of which I haven't found outside the compilations. Might be useful when testing disk emulation?
"MicroByte - Serie Clasicos Spectrum": Disk copies of the "Clásicos Spectrum" collection of 48K/16K cassettes. I don't think any of them were officially made available in disk form.
"Recopilacion Vives": Disk ports of three unreleased games which also have their own TZX already.
"Complex Oldfield Trilogy": This lets you choose between three Mike Oldfield albums, loads a title screen depending on which you chose and plays renditions of the tracks in them.
"Gary Lancaster Tools Collection": I can't load this one, maybe it has some copy protection or something. Haven't found any info about it.
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