Hardware WiiWare Dat for OfflineList and ClrMamePro

Nago · Jun 30, 2009

Hello! There is a newer thread. You should probably go there instead!
<a href="http://gbatemp.net/t173348-wiiware-virtual-console-dats-for-offlinelist-clrmamepro" target="_blank">http://gbatemp.net/t173348-wiiware-virtual...list-clrmamepro</a>

Hello, everyone! This is a Beta release for a WiiWare dat for OLL and ClrMamePro. It is beta in the sense that some of the supplementary information may not be 100% accurate, but it has been out long enough with no major error reports to be confident that it has no glaring CRC errors. This release is helping me gear up towards the bigger release of a Virtual Console dat and, afterwards, a Miscellaneous dat (for Wii Channels, Disc-Based DLC, and other non-full ISO goodies.)

This thread is updated regularly with updates at the bottom of the post, and RSS feeds are available at the bottom for knowing when new releases are published.

I notice there have been some other WiiWare dats before, one by <a href="http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showuser=98188" target="_blank">Methanoid</a> and then the one by <a href="http://psykos77.free.fr/site/offlinelist/telechargement.html" target="_blank">Psykos</a>. The dat by Methanoid has been discontinued, while Psykos still updates his, but our dat styles are a little different, so I will detail the features/points of interest of my dat here.<ul><li>Duplicates: I have made an extensive effort to eliminate duplicates in my database; I have opted to choose the "Best" release for any given title. For people who only casually collect and do not follow the scene, I find this to make more sense instead of including multiple entries for the same game, some of which have been nuked. You will generally find only one of each game from each region in here, with exceptions for V1.1s and similar.
</li><li>Integrity: I have made a good deal of corrections to the database at ABGX.net, as a result, several games have been added to the database and a few have been recently nuked. I have done a LOT of error checking here. I am fairly confident of the completeness of the dat.
</li><li>RiffRaff: Nuked releases, Duplicates, and other undesirables are not in the main database, but are included in alternate versions of the dat. The purpose here is to help identify if your releases are bad. I have dug up 95% of the Nuked releases and duplicates to help you identify if your collection is outdated. The numbers for nuked releases start at 10000, and prefix the title with [NUKE]. This also includes some titles which are not nuked due to technicality but are otherwise superseded or have better versions available.
</li><li>WiiWare Only: Wii Channels and other miscellany are not listed here.
</li><li>Duplicate Filter Full duplicate ID information (even for nukes) for use with OLL's dupfilter.
</li><li>Images: There are a handful of images, but not many. I need assistance with these. If Psykos is willing to donate his to the cause, all the merrier, but otherwise I won't be taking his without permission. There is a public PhotoBucket gallery in which users may contribute screenshots. Please contribute if you're interested in this project; otherwise, screenshots are low on my list of priorities.
</li><li>Missing Releases: There are a handful of missing releases still, just as in Psykos' dat. The good news it that with Propers and iNTERNALS, there are no longer any missing releases in the "Good Set". Hooray!
</li><li>Updates:: I have been updating generally within 24hours of release, most often as soon as I can get my hands on the release. As the project reaches maturity I expect I'll do updates to the tune of once a week. (Friday/Saturday, after updates from all three regions.)
</li><li>DLC: DLC Content is also included; these have (DLC) both as a suffix to the title and in the comment field.
</li><li>Language Info: I have filled in Language Info as retrieved from Wikipedia, and NOE, but there is bound to be inaccuracies. Your assistance in reporting language discrepancies would be appreciated; it takes a long time to install all these wads, and I just simply don't have the patience to try each one personally.
</li><li>RSS: Just in case you were that anal about your WiiWare that you wanted a mother-lovin' RSS feed for it, I have made one. Each new RSS entry links to the database zip, so you can automate downloading the new dat whenever an upload is published. By request, the description field for each entry also now contains a link to the NFO on Ludibria.</li></ul>Okay, so with those bullet points aside, let's get to the goods:<ul><li><a href="http://crackerscrap.com/dat/wiidat.zip" target="_blank">http://crackerscrap.com/dat/wiidat.zip</a> OfflineList Dat without Nuked titles.</li><li><a href="http://crackerscrap.com/dat/nukdat.zip" target="_blank">http://crackerscrap.com/dat/nukdat.zip</a> OfflineList Dat with Nuked titles.</li><li><a href="http://crackerscrap.com/dat/ww.rss" target="_blank">http://crackerscrap.com/dat/ww.rss</a> RSS Feed of the last 20 releases; the links take you to the standard OfflineList Dat.</li><li><a href="http://crackerscrap.com/dat/wwdat.zip" target="_blank">http://crackerscrap.com/dat/wwdat.zip</a> ClrMamePro Dat without Nuked titles: As I do not use ClrMamePro, this dat is untested, please exercise caution when using it.</li><li><a href="http://crackerscrap.com/dat/wwndat.zip" target="_blank">http://crackerscrap.com/dat/wwndat.zip</a> ClrMamePro Dat with Nuked titles. As above, an untested beta.</li></ul>Credits & Sources:
<a href="http://ludibria.com/" target="_blank">http://ludibria.com/</a>
<a href="http://abgx.net/" target="_blank">http://abgx.net/</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WiiWare_Games" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WiiWare_Games</a>
<a href="http://www.nintendo.com/games/guide#qhardware=&qesrbRating=&qplay=wiiware&qgenre=&qrelease=&panel=qplay&sortBy=releaseDate" target="_blank">http://www.nintendo.com/games/guide#qhardw...tBy=releaseDate</a>
<a href="http://nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/games/wiiware_8378.html" target="_blank">http://nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/games/wiiware_8378.html</a>
<a href="http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/wiiware/list.html#order" target="_blank">http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/wiiware/list.html#order</a>
<a href="http://romaji.org" target="_blank">http://romaji.org</a>
<a href='http://gbatemp.net/member.php?name=Cracker' target=_blank title='View profile for member Cracker'}>Cracker</a> - Hosting and writing a few tools for me over the years
#EZFlash - Advice, Ideas, Assistance
#ABGX - Information, database corrections, release information, helping to fill missing releases
OneUp & PLAY-SKiLL - For making my job easier by releasing so many Propers!

Feel free to make requests in this thread. If you think something should be changed, formatted a different way, feel free to ask: I am more than happy to consider your requests. If you would like to see this data in a dat format for another rom manager, by all means: let me know which one you'd like to see this dat in and I will do my best to make it happen! I only ask that after you make a request, you come back to the thread to continue discussion with me if I have any questions about your request. (I can't implement things if I don't know what you want!)

I think that about does it! Please report any errors or inconsistencies, corrections and etcetera in this thread for now, thank you! (And if you are wondering, Yes! I am making a VC dat as well. It is about 90% finished. All CRCs, filesizes, etc have been filled; what remains is to nuke a few releases and complete filling in the Duplicate ID information.)

Updates:

Jul 03: Broke the dat temporarily. You'll have to Re-DL it! It also messed up the RSS feed temporarily, but everything is OK now. There are also two new nukes which affect the numbering scheme. Remember: This dat is BETA and All of WiiWare isn't even dumped, so expect changes!
Jul 04: New Releases, Three new nukes: Onslaught, Pop-Up Pirate and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years (all PAL) have been superseded by OneUp iNTERNALS since no one could find the earlier releases. This brings down the total number of "Missing Releases" to just two!
Jul 05: Three New Releases, One new nuke: Jungle Speed by SUNSHiNE replaced the version by WWR that no one had: We're down to only one missing release! Thanks, SUNSHinE!
Jul 06: Handful of releases, Thanks to OneUp Proper Japanese WiiWare is now at 100% completion. With exception of WW releases today, US and JP are both now at 100% completion. Come on, PAL! I have also renamed the dat by request (So it sorts by "WiiWare" instead of "Nago") and resized the screenshots in-dat. Please contribute images!
Jul 30: I'm still alive! The dat is still current and, All of WiiWare for All Regions has now been dumped. Exciting! I am still working daily on a solution for Virtual Console, but due to how frequently VC is updated as compared to WiiWare, It has taken me a lot longer to get my dat out than I'd like. I made some really excellent progress this week on the bot that watches for VC releases, and I'm hoping to get the VC dat finished as soon as possible! The script just today auto-filled the CRC, fileSize and fileName portions of the dat for over 222 VC entries! So I am making excellent progress, even if it is mostly unseen <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="

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<a href="http://crackerscrap.com/dat/ww.rss" target="_blank"><img src="http://trimex.us/img/rss/25.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a> OfflineList RSS
<a href="http://crackerscrap.com/dat/wwcmp.rss" target="_blank"><img src="http://trimex.us/img/rss/20.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a> ClrMamePro RSS

FAST6191 · Jun 30, 2009

I was there when you were making it but congrats Nago, this is sure to come in very handy.

Athlon-pv · Jun 30, 2009

Congrats

Slade.AU · Jul 1, 2009

2.5years and 10 posts.

I don't feel so bad.

Congrats on the list. I'll be using it.

If you need help with images, just ask.

Nago · Jul 1, 2009

Slade.AU said:
2.5years and 10 posts.

I don't feel so bad.

I'd say it's about quality, not quantity, but then half of my posts ARE in the Deoxys Distribution 2008 hacking thread, so I guess that's not really true, either.

Slade.AU said:

If you need help with images, just ask.

Click to expand...

I am considering making a public web album or something of the sorts where people can contribute images. The only thing is that I have to decide on an image format.

I was using these title images: but they are only available for US regions, and the aspect ratio of the image within the titlecard may not be easy to automatically generate from other screencaps.

It's also worth noting that the screencaps on Nintendo.com's (US) site all have different aspect ratios as well, so before I start working on images or allow other people to upload to some kind of community pot, I think I need to decide on an image format.

At the moment I am leaning towards abandoning the titlecards and using simply two screencaps, one for the Title Screen and one for the gameplay.

Methanoid · Jul 2, 2009

Excellent DAT and nice to chat to you on IRC. Even better to see you listen to suggestions!!!

I'd go with two screens for the images as you suggest. Its always useful if you're looking to play a game to get an idea what its about and a title page only or a small pic with a WiiWare logo above is not enough.

Good decision also to ignore stupid releases that get nowhere like WWR releases and to include the OneUp PROPERs and Internals (?)

Is WiiVC coming soon too???

Nago · Jul 2, 2009

I'm glad you like my efforts. I was horrified that I'd wind up pissing everyone off!

WiiVC is coming very soon. I have all the data entered into the database, I'm just writing a script to double-check it and do a bit of "end of project" tidying to make sure I have everything in order and there are no errors. (Check, Check, DoubleCheck and ReCheck.) Then I have to write a script to actually publish the dat, but I'm going to be using the script I wrote for WiiWare as a template, so it's not a terribly daunting process. I would expect to see a version within a week or so.

I added NFO links to the RSS feed as per mbmax's request, and I'll be adding the scene folder names to the comment field as per Methanoid's request. (These are already in the DB, it's just a matter of making the publishing script include them, it's not heinously complicated.)

I'll also be adding a second RSS feed that instead links to the ClrMamePro dat instead of the OLL Dat: I think this makes more sense, since OfflineList can update dats itself, while ClrMamePro cannot, so using RSS to automatically download the ClrMamePro dat will actually be a nice but of convenience; so I'll add that soon.

Nago · Jul 3, 2009

Whoops! Looks like I broke something. Please stand by while I figure out what the hell I messed up. Sorry! ::EMBARASSED::

Fixed: I accidentally commented out a critical line in my publish code which escaped ampersands, so that broke the OLL dat. (Dr. Mario & Germ Buster). There was also a blank line which got added to the database which screwed up the RSS feed, but both issues are fixed. This is what I get for staying up over 24 hours trying to finish work on my dats.

Other news: two new nukes which affect the previous numberscheme. The old Final Fantasy CC DLC got nuked; there is a more complete version available now; also an older version of the Mega Man 9 PAL DLC-- I realized there were two versions in my database and so the older of the two releases was nuked. The earlier version came as part of a pack from OneUp, and the later release came in the form of a standalone download. I am told that the standalone version is "The version you want."

So as stated: this is still a beta dat, and so the numbers will almost certainly change as new releases supersed old releases, so please do not rely on these numbers to stay static and unchanging. I realize this is hugely inconvenient for some of you, however there is not much I can do as the scene has not fully "settled" for WiiWare.

Good news: Thanks to OneUp and PLAY-SKiLL, both the US (OneUp) and JP (OneUp & PLAY-SKiLL) WiiWare scene is now 100% complete and up-to-date. If you are interested in collecting either region, now is a very good time to download my dat and get started!

Mbmax · Jul 3, 2009

Very good job !

Thanks nago !

Nago · Jul 4, 2009

New updates: Three more nukes (Once again affecting numbering), but the good news is that it has replaced two roms which no one had, and one of uncertain origin.

In other news, I've started a public gallery of WiiWare images that anyone can contribute to! Please check out http://photobucket.com/wiiware and start contributing! I do apologize, but it does require you to have a (free) Photobucket account to upload. If you have a suggestion for a better host, though, by all means do suggest it!

I ask that you upload in PNG format, (use IrfanView's PNGOut plugin for maximum compression) in images that are 640x480, 640x456, or 640x448 (The native resolutions you'll get for various games in 4:3 mode.)

Also: I did add the ClrMamePro RSS feed to the footer of the OP post.

Thank you!

Jul 8: Two more nukes (both DLC) that have been propered, and thanks to SUNSHiNE there are no more "missing" releases contained within the dat, so good job. There are still a handful of European releases that were never released, though, so we're not at 100% just yet, but by the end of the month I think we can count on it.

And a quick note on the VC list: My work load continually increases with each passing day. I am whittling down what is left to do, but there have been a few delays. It is still almost finished: it is still coming 'soon'.

Methanoid · Jul 12, 2009

Great stuff, keep at it.

Request for the VC dat - hopefully you wont be including those Home-made Injected Final Fantasy ROMs that have made it into another WiiVC DAT

And can it be announced via the RSS feed? That would be most excellent

I'm pining for the VC dat already.

Nago · Jul 17, 2009

Sorry! I'm on vacation this week. There are a glut of new WW releases and I have been keeping track of them, but I have been spending my time upgrading my dat management system to mySQL and a few bots to auto-fetch information and titles to get updates out faster than ever.

Unfortunately, I AM on vacation at the moment, so updates will stall for the time being. It will resume monday. (Okay, I'm going to try to update my WW one tonight at least, let's see what I can get out.)

The WiiVC dat is "done" for entries up through July 1st, but of course, there have been many releases since then, so I've been playing catch-up: finishing the new bots to manage things for me will make WiiVC easier.

And on the request of no iNJECTS: the 0RANGECHICKEN releases have been excluded as well as a myriad of other iNJECT titles by other groups (iND, DiPLODOCUS and others) that are not even nuked: I've done my homework. No worries about unofficial roms.

(I may add them into a Miscellaneous DLC dat at some future date, which would include application releases, music game DLC, iNJECTS, and etcetera.)

Edit: almost forgot. Thanks to SUNSHiNE (PAL), OneUp (USA), and PLAY-SKiLL (JPN), WiiWare is at 100% -- every game release has been dumped and has an un-nuked copy available. It's a good time to start collecting.

Slade.AU · Jul 17, 2009

Awesome work nago.

I just updated from the old dat you hosted to the new one cracker is hosting.

With regards to images.... I can possibly do something. I'd have to look at how much space my host provides, but I know I don't use it and they don't seem to worry about bandwidth. Heck, how much data can you burn through with a few images (or a few hundred

)

Edit: I'll start using the Dolphin Emu to dump screen images for you.
That should provide nice crisp, clean images to use.

Edit 2: I have just noticed that Fish'em All (PAL) is listed twice:
0223 Filler
0319 Proper

Shouldn't one of these be removed ?

Methanoid · Jul 17, 2009

Yup, love this DAT. Small issue with the images which download every time you refresh. I had this bug myself on my DATs and forget how I fixed it but Psykos or any other OLL Datter will probably know how. Psykos still has this with his XB360 DAT where image 289b.jpg downloads every time I refresh!?!?

So WiiVC is coming alomg - great! Any chance we'll complete the set with Wii itself? I don;t collect Wii ISOs but there are people who do

Nago · Jul 17, 2009

I don't intend to do full disc ISOs-- I'll leave this to Psykos or the Advanscene gent. Sorry to break your heart

Good catch on Fish'em All. the WWR one was a ghost release anyway, I don't think anyone had it. I probably forgot to nuke it in my dat because it "didn't really exist" to begin with. Thanks

I've published the list for WiiWare: Should be all up to date for all releases. There were also a handful of re-releases for a number of titles (earlier versions of some OneUp PAL releases have bad ticket information) so there have been a few REPACKS to rectify the issue.

Oh: the images. I know what happened. I added CRCs for the images that were 640x***, realized they were too large, resized them, and forgot to update the CRCs. I'll have to fix that tonight. Sorry ...

Edit: lol. there have been 98 releases for VC since my "initial set" of data for it. Hahaha. At least no one is slacking off in releasing games

Methanoid · Jul 23, 2009

Nago said:
I don't intend to do full disc ISOs-- I'll leave this to Psykos or the Advanscene gent. Sorry to break your heart

Good catch on Fish'em All. the WWR one was a ghost release anyway, I don't think anyone had it. I probably forgot to nuke it in my dat because it "didn't really exist" to begin with. Thanks

I've published the list for WiiWare: Should be all up to date for all releases. There were also a handful of re-releases for a number of titles (earlier versions of some OneUp PAL releases have bad ticket information) so there have been a few REPACKS to rectify the issue.

Oh: the images. I know what happened. I added CRCs for the images that were 640x***, realized they were too large, resized them, and forgot to update the CRCs. I'll have to fix that tonight. Sorry ...

Edit: lol. there have been 98 releases for VC since my "initial set" of data for it. Hahaha. At least no one is slacking off in releasing games

Nag for Nago

The IMG thing is still there, I download all images every time I use Update

Still prefer your DAT though even without full set of images and I'm sure I'll be adopting your WiiVC as well. I wasnt worried about ISOs myself

Nago · Jul 25, 2009

Durr, yeah. I need to fix the images still. (I keep forgetting ...)

I've been frantically trying to code a full mysql solution for the datting, and as I finish it up, it gets sort of frantic.

Though I am caught up on WiiVC now, I just need to write the script to publish the dat, hopefully between school and everything I won't get bogged down again.

After I am caught up on both WiiVC and WiiWare, I'll start on the images.

Edit: WiiWare is up to date again, and I nuked a few things I had forgotten to. Enjoy ~ (Annoyingly, one of the things that was nuked was the FIRST wiiware release, Okiraku Ping Pong Wii: so ALL of the numbers have changed. I'm sorry!)

Methanoid · Jul 25, 2009

Nago said:
Edit: WiiWare is up to date again, and I nuked a few things I had forgotten to. Enjoy ~ (Annoyingly, one of the things that was nuked was the FIRST wiiware release, Okiraku Ping Pong Wii: so ALL of the numbers have changed. I'm sorry!)

Not a problem, unless someone has the OLL set to rename files INSIDE the archives!!

gizmomelb · Jul 29, 2009

Mago - thankyou so much for creating these lists, but I do have one request - could you please append the date to the end of the files so we know when they were last updated (when we check your web site)?

Nago · Jul 30, 2009

Can you explain what you mean?

A date at the end of the dat downloads themselves?

(Website...?) ...Oh yeah! I did make that little "website" on cracker's webhost. I can certainly hook up something there so it shows the last published date on the "front page", if that's what you are asking.

I may also start a "News" RSS, for general purpose updates. (I won't be publishing general purpose updates to the "Dat Feeds".)

Edit: I added some news to the bottom of the OP post.

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