Hi Turbo Listers,
Time to unveil something that Bt and I have been working on for quite a
while - a new version of the PC Engine Catalog Project.
The main work has been done - refining information about all the games for
the PC Engine and collecting new information (where possible). New cover
scans, and game play screen shots now exist (including "bad system card",
where possible). Even better, the data is now stored in a database, and
there is a new search function. There is also a PC-FX section - and while
the information is not yet complete, it is already better than it had been
in previous versions.
The scripts will be improved from time to time, adding new features and
improving others (for example, I will be adding new search criteria soon).
Please take a look at:
http://www.pcecp.com/catalog
And let's discuss it here.
If you find inaccurate (or incomplete) information, I'd be happy to fix it
if you have more accurate information. Also, we can discuss enhancements here.
But before we start, here is a list of things that we already plan to improve:
1) PCE database contains all regular-release games, but not all 'special
version' games yet
2) PC-FX data is complete for some data fields, but incomplete for some
other data fields, and game play video capture is currently a work-in-progress
3) We will be adding a "coming soon" list of improvements
4) We will be adding new fields in the search functionality
5) We will be adding "alphabet" hyperlinks in the game list, to 'jump to' a
letter when the list is alphabetically sorted (A/KA/SA/etc. for Japanese
sequence).
6) We plan to add user forums for: a) discussion, b) review, c) rating
system... but this is a set of features which could take a while to implement.
Information that we would like to get:
1) USA-release dates and introductory prices
2) Corrections to inaccurate data, or improper Japanese names or sort
sequence (yes, the site will already work in SJIS and Japanese sort
sequence, for game titles)
I hope this sparks some good discussion.
- Dave