Commodore 64 Romset v1.0 (17441 Games) (Gamebase) (2015-09-22) (No Duplicates) (Extras)

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and shuffle through.



..well ..I am not sure what to say. Commodore 64. I was shocked with how awesome Amiga games were and decided to take a peek at Commodore 64. These systems to me were not part of my youth and even the one that I ever experienced, were way in Windows 95 age, so at least back then it did not phase me. But dam.. 17441 games..

Like I mentioned in the Amiga Romset, I am not really knowledgeable about Amiga and in general Commodore. To me this is definitely a first and actually the games are awesome. It feels like Amiga meets computer power. The games feel like Amiga to me, but of course, so much more advanced and powerful... well some that I tried at least.

For people that just want to experience Commodore 64 in a nice UI, then I suggest you grab the package I used as a base to build this. What I used is called Gamebase64 and I got it from here;
http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=57963&sid=ef8e994bc8a9cf8734467a93332b5ede
You only need the first DVD, since that is the only one that includes all the games, UI, images and whatnot. If you want a detailed explanation of what each DVD includes, download GameBase64 V14 Artwork first. I am not sure why it is called that, but it includes the Manual of the DVDs, that explain how to install the UI and what each DVD includes. The UI is nice and it includes emulators and pictures and whatnot, so again, if you just want to run the games, get that.

One thing to note is that game files come in different formats. The most usual are T64 and D64, which easily load and play with at least the emulator I used. With those 17441 games, there are 30 games that have TAP and CRT format. TAP is as I am understanding a 1:1 copy of the original cassette media and CRT the cart one. The TAP games work normally with the emulator, but since they are 1:1 from the cassettes, that means the loading time is of the real cassette media. Obviously when you use these, you will actually have to sit back and relax, waiting for the game to sloooowly load. Afar from that, nothing more in needed. As for CRT, for at least the emulator I used (VICE) you need to run them along with the command "-cartcrt". When I used that command, games worked fine.

[size=200 cye-lm-tag]You can always check which games are in TAP / CRT format, by either reading the TAP-CRT.txt or filtering the Excel files included.[/size]

Now, the reason I made this one is not just because I made Amiga, I went for this too. Even if this UI is really nice, I eventually am aiming to add games in a different Frontend, which is why I made this Romset. Sadly the zip/folder names the games come in the Gamebase, are made so the UI can read them, but they are not the normal full names of the games, for Frontends have the ability to recognize them.

So what I did with this was, downloading them, renaming them so the zip files (not the actual files) have their full name, repacking them and cleaning them up.

Like the Amiga pack, what I removed from the main pack, I move to the Extra folder. To see a further explanation on Extra folder, and whatever I removed from the Main ROMSet, scroll down to the Extra section.

Unlike other Romsets that I mention that before reporting something is a duplicate, you should first test it, this time I am telling you that for sure there are MANY games with the same name and they are NOT duplicates.

This is definitely the age where game naming was something that people did not call dibs for, which means there will be a lot and I mean a LOT of games with the same name. Like for example lets say I want to play... hmm.... Craps!. There are 10 different Craps in the main Romset, which means normally you would know which is which. For that reason games with same names, have attached along their ID number inside brackets. To see which is which, you can always visit the Gamebase site; http://www.gamebase64.com/search.php. You can there search for the game you want and all the games with the same name will appear. What I do there is to scroll over the images of the games and look the ID that shows on the lower left corner of the browser and depending which screenshot looks better for me, I go for that.

That seems the best way to separate games with same names to me, which is why I went for this.

With all that out of the way, better go to the romset XD

Main ROMSet
Ok.. this is pretty straightforward.. 17441 English Games. Kind of amusing that this huge romset, has so little to say here XD Although I will add this; A lot of games might seem foreign, but they are actually multi-language and they should include English. Obviously I did not test them all to be 100% sure, so I am just going along whatever the database said.

Extra
Here I placed as I mentioned whatever I removed from the Main ROMSet along with some Extras that were inside the Gamebase and I found interesting.

Like the Amiga romset Non-English folder contains different language games and files separated in folders. Choose whichever you want!

Clones should be games that are the same as games already included in the main pack. Like I mentioned, I did not check them all myself, but I went along with whatever the database said.

Previews were actually inside the main pack, but as I am understanding Previews are what we call nowadays Demos. For that reason I removed them from the main pack and put them separately here.

I added along some Coverdisks and SceneMags, mostly because I do find it amusing and enjoyable to go through these, especially the magazines, seeing how in the past people read magazines on old systems.

If you wonder what are the Public Domain roms, you can look it up in wikipedia, since you will understand it much better, than me trying to explain.

Games List
I have compiled a list of the Main Romset games in different formats, from normal text, to rtf and two different type of excel formats. The txt and rtf obviously can be read by the default Windows document readers, Notepad and Wordpad. The txt is simple where the rtf looks like a nice list in boxes, looking like an excel.

The Excel ones, ods and xml, are for either OpenOffice or Microsoft Office and they have filters to filter out versions and regions. If you download more than one of my romsets, you can always combine the Excel pages, by copying them all in a single Excel file. Just suggesting that for people that do not want to have a lot of different excel files.

The columns on the excels differ a bit. Rather than adding Language/Region, I added a column that has ID numbers for duplicate games and one that marks the games that are in TAP or CRT format.

I am only suggesting the Emulator and Frontend. I do not include them in the pack!

Emulator
The emulator I used for these is WinVICE. Choose either Binary for MS-Windows 32bit (Pentium-optimized), if you have 32bit Windows, or Binary for MS-Windows 64bit (amd64/x64), if you have 64bit Windows. Extract it in any folder you wish and then either run x64.exe or drag and drop the game on top of x64.exe. Whichever you choose, works. Still though remember what I mentioned before. TAP files take a long time to load, so don't think the game does not work. WinVICE actually has a counter on the bottom right corner showing that it is working. CRT files need a -cartcrt command to run, but thankfully they are just two games.

One thing to note though; Even if the emulator supports running games from ZIP files, you need to add an unzip.exe. I used Unzip for Windows, which worked just fine for me and the emulator worked with zip files. The unzip.exe that I saw suggested, was Info-ZIP's unzip, but I could not find it, afar from a really old version, so I used the newer one I mentioned before.

Frontend
Finally I want to suggest LaunchBox. Launchbox is a frontend for multiple emulators and if anything it is the best I have found out there. It is easy to import games in it's interface, it suggests the best emulator to get when for each console, when you try to add an emulator and it has the best interface I have found. Weirdly, I like the free UI it offers (LaunchBox) and not the paid one that people that buy it can get (BigBox). The LaunchBox UI shows every game in a list with a picture of the cover or a screenshot from in game and that is really nice for me. The paid UI it offers just shows a list and only when you choose the name you can see any pictures of it. It can automatically look into picture databases and download pictures for a lot of the games. You can check the screenshot to see what I mean.

You can follow this tutorial, which will help you combine the ultimate emulator, with the ultimate frontend :D This Video might be for RetroArch, but it has a quick tutorial about Launchbox in it too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeozvnb_-eI

Retroarch is more or less a multiplatform frontend, that can internally use emulators from all systems out there. It is a bit intimidating, but if you combine that with Launchbox, you will have a single Emulator (with made different internal ones) and a really nice free frontend for it :)

Personally I use separate emulators and Retroarch only when it is about using emulation for older systems, like Atari for example.
Hope everyone is good in health and are taking care. Enjoy your week.