Commodore Amiga Romset v1.0 (2211 Games) (WHDLoad) (2016-01-21) (No Duplicates) (Extras)

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Welp, seems I went from Console Romsets to Personal Computer games XD This is the Commodore Amiga ...Romset? Well, even if it sound wrong, I will keep calling them Romsets.

First of all let me say that I know almost nothing about Amiga. To me Amiga was something people spoke about and I thought of it like a predecessor of the DOS games I used to play. I never knew how many awesome games it has and how nice the games look. I am definitely stunned by the awesomeness of Amiga, even if I finally got into it so many years after when I should.

I am repeating that I am totally new to Amiga, so in case I have done something wrong or said something wrong, please feel free to correct me in comments, especially for people that will get this pack and will be helpful to them. I have found a lot of games that were marked as normal but were AGA or had wrong names. I could not actually play all 2000+ games, so I might have missed quite some problems.

This Romset is based on the WHDLoad Collection 2016-01-21. If you google the green text, the first result on google will be the pack I used to make this. So if anyone prefer the normal Game-pack, you can easily find it.

For people that will not read much of this, I included two text files in the Romset. The ReadMe if you are lost with all the files points out what is each of the files/folders and what they include, be it the main Romset or the Extra folder. The Notes are different notes I took while moving files out of the main romset, reasons and in general things I wrote down so I will remember them, in case in the future I will look at the pack. WHDLoad ReadMe is the ReadMe that came with the original pack and I included it because the people that put together this pack deserve the credits and people being thankful to them.

Like other Romsets, the Main Romset is meant to no have duplicates. I have spent a week going through all the games three times, trying to clean it and keep only a single file for every game, which on the third time I only found a couple of things I forgot, which I why I did not go for a fourth time. As always, the Main Romset is meant for players like me, that only care to have a single rom for each game and NOT for collectors.

Even if I say I left a single rom for each game, Amiga is a bit different. Some games have different versions of the same game, but for a "different" system. If you combine all the Main Romsets, some games might have 2 or even 3 different versions. The reason is that some games can have a normal version and along that an AGA/CD32/CDTV version.

If you want to replace the normal versions (ECS/OCS) with one of the others, you can consult the Excel file I made. I have added marks when a game has an AGA/CD32/CDTV version and if it ONLY have one of these versions and does not have a normal one.

I have tried my best to not have duplicate games, but even so, there might be a couple left that I did not detect. If you find any duplicate game, please do report it in comments.

Due to the fact I went through all the games, I have tested games with same names and if the game were the same, I would remove it from the Main Romset. When you see games with Identical names in the main Romset, it means they were different and you can find more information about it in the Notes.

I did NOT delete any game, or at least I tried to. When I wanted to remove files, I would move them to the Alternatives folder and if I wanted to delete them I would move them to the Alternatives - zDuplicates or Older. The reason I did not delete anything, is because I might be wrong about some of the files and I did not want to remove something that might be actually needed.

Main ROMSet

ALL the Romsets together have 2211 Games. But, I am counting the different games and not files. Like I mentioned, some games have more than one versions, but 2211 are how many different games are in the Romset.

Normal Romset is ECS/OCS (graphics) games, which have older graphics. AGA are games that have higher graphics. CD32 was a console that was based on Amiga and had a CD drive and usually it's games are AGA games, but I can't be sure for all. CDTV was an all-in-one home multimedia appliance in a home stereo-like case rather than a computer.

I chose to add AGA and CD32 variations in different folders, rather than remove the older or lower graphic ECS/OCS. The reason is that I personally like some older games with their older graphics, be it because of nostalgia or because they look better in my eyes. Better graphics can not only make a game look different, but make it feel like a totally different game, at least to me. If you want to get rid of the older variations and mix the folders, you can look at the Excel file and filter which games have an AGA/CD32 variation and delete the older one.

Now for the Separate packs. The Normal Romset has 2137 games, the AGA Romset has 145 games, the CD32 has 102 games and the CDTV has just 16 games.

Extra

For a detailed explanation about what it's inside the Extra folder, you can read the ReadMe if you are lost with all the files and maybe for extra info Notes.

Kickstart and FileSystem files are something equal to BIOS files for consoles. Kickstarts are required by Emulators, so they can initialize the games. FileSystem files are files I used while Installing Workbench in a virtual Hard Drive. Clean Kickstart Set is a set of Kickstarts I put together, because any other I found was missing the 3000 one, or at least the emulator I used said so.

Alternatives and Variations are folders that include files I removed from the Main Romset, because games have different versions, but the game was the same. Depending on what kind of variations it was, I put it in a different subfolder. zDuplicates or Older is a folder that contains some game I would normally delete.

Applications are Just Workbench boot disks and installation disks and along an Action Replay file.

Non English Files contains different language game and files separated in folders. Choose whichever you want.

The rest of the files/folders are just what was in the main pack and I did not touch. I have only tested some Magazines and it was quite interesting to read a magazine on an Amiga PC. Back then it must have felt really cool.

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.

With these Excels I actually added three extra columns that can act as filters in case anyone was to check which games have AGA/CD32/CDTV variations. If the field says YES, then the games has that variation. If the field says ONLY, it means it does not have a normal games and that variation is the standard one.

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

Emulator

For Emulator I will suggest FS-UAE. I am not using the latest stable version, but the latest development version, which actually worked better for me.

FS-UAE has a really easy installation.
1)Download it, be it the installer version or the portable one and install it.
2) Put the Clean Kickstarts set in it's Kickstarts folder.
3) Register in the FS-UAE a free account
4) Run the emulator and log in with your free account.
5) After you log in it will start downloading a database of games and automations that will let you SKIP all the complicated installation and setups.
6) When the download is done you are ready!

You can either drag and drop games on top of the Emulator and it will run them, or even better go in Settings>File Database and add the folder or folders with your games. The Emulator will scan the folder add a list of them and even get you screenshots for it.


There might be some games that are not listen in it's list, but I have tested a lot of games by dragging and dropping them on the Emulator Shortcut and they worked. Some games would give me an error when running them like that, but running them through the Emulator's UI, would make them run normally.

There is also another Emulator that seems more famous, named WinUAE. I do not doubt this can be better, but I spent 36 hours to only manage to start a game with WinUAE, looking around and finally finding this useful guide; https://www.youtube.com/play...8PhfIdGbcJTVVOWYzTOgaX8eDuKn . The feeling of managing to make the whole thing work was awesome, but it was definitely something really manual.

FS-UAE just automated everything for me and since I am new to the Amiga world, I preferred to stick with this one.

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.

I hope I have not majorly messed anything with this one XD Enjoy people and have a great day/week :D