Little bugs in the database 2

[StooB]

The cover is also missing/broken and just links back to the same page.

Cover had been added in the latest update so ignore this bit.

[Fahnn]

While searching to see whether my insane porn industry game had spread further on the internet (it has, there's now a playable in-browser version on a Portuguese site, but I digress) I noticed that it now has a ZXDB entry. There's no download link, which might be intentional and I understand if so. However, I'd love it if at least my author credit could be included so that it could be associated with my earlier games. It's author no. 7090, Jim Bentley. I can also supply loading/running screen images (nothing contentious, obviously) if required, would make the page look more complete at least, even if there's not to be a download available.

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[Alessandro]

A bug has been found and corrected in Al's Double Bill (details here). Please substitute the .TRD and .SCL files with those provided in the archive downloadable from my website.

Also, could the files for Sinclair User 127: Great Eight 16 be added to the corresponding entry?

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[8BitAG]

This seems to be one of those errors that has just been copied and pasted across the Internet...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=6207

by The Essential Myth

is, for some reason, credited to Rod Pike.

The Essential Myth were actually Mark Davies, Lee Hodgson & Andrew Dean... (Shaun McClure is correctly credited as the external artist who did the loading screen)

as shown in their Book of the Dead entry here...
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=6033

Presumably the confusion is because Rod Pike wrote some horror-style games for CRL, and the Essential Myth's Book of the Dead was published by CRL (Jekyll and Hyde was slated to be published/republished by CRL at one point too, but that never happened).

See the Games Machine review for author references etc. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/mag.php ... 96&page=39

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[druellan]

While searching to see whether my insane porn industry game had spread further on the internet (it has, there's now a playable in-browser version on a Portuguese site, but I digress) I noticed that it now has a ZXDB entry. There's no download link, which might be intentional and I understand if so. However, I'd love it if at least my author credit could be included so that it could be associated with my earlier games. It's author no. 7090, Jim Bentley. I can also supply loading/running screen images (nothing contentious, obviously) if required, would make the page look more complete at least, even if there's not to be a download available.

There is proper tagging for that kind of content, so, I think there is no problem hosting the game, if you give permission to do so. Can you send me the screen captures (and the ID of the game, so avoid mistakes)? Thanks!

[PeterJ]

That's correct, the game will be in ZXDB, but won't appear in searches on SC. You can of course access it if you know the ID, or use one of the other ZXDB engines.

[Frankie]

Name change

This one:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=14836

Needs to be changed from:

Skatteberegning

to:

Skatteberegning 1983

There is also a new release for the following year called 'Skatteberegning 1984', which I've just found a copy of (not original ) that I will make transfer in the near future.

BTW, if transfering none original files, would that be preferable as TAP files, or is TZX allright, and then mentioned that its not a perfect TZX?

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[PeterJ]

Name change

This one:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=14836

Needs to be changed from:

Skatteberegning

to:

Skatteberegning 1983

Does this mean the release year is wrong too? (Currently says 1984)

[StooB]

Aspar GP Master

The price for re-release #1 (alternative title "Grand Prix Master") should be £9.95 as shown on the English advert, as this is the English version. The 875 ptas price is for the original Spanish release, as shown on the Spanish advert.

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[StooB]

After The War

The English release should be added as Re-release #1 and the IBSA re-release should be moved down to Re-release #2.

For the English release:
Publisher: Dinamic Software (Spain)
Year: 1989 (Your Sinclair and Sinclair User reviews are from December 1989)
Release Price: £9.95 from the advert

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[StooB]

Navy Moves and Game Over 2 (Phantis)

The publisher of Re-release #1 of Phantis (Game Over 2) is not Electronic Arts, it's Dinamic.
The publisher of Re-release #1 of Navy Moves is not Dinamic/Electronic Arts, it's Dinamic.

It's very clear on the UK adverts for Game Over 2 and Navy Moves that Electronic Arts are the distributor, not the publisher. Electronic Arts were the distributors for several publishers, most notoriously CRL, and EA don't get a publisher credit on those titles.

Also, the adverts for After The War and Grand Prix Master show those titles were distributed by USD rather than EA and they don't get a publisher credit either.

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[StooB]

Narco Police

Re-release #1 is currently
Publisher: GBH (UK)
Year 1991
Release Price £9.95
Budget Price £3.99

which should be split into

Re-release #1:
Publisher: Dinamic (Spain)
Year 1991
Release Price £9.95

Re-release #2
Publisher: GBH (UK)
Year 1992
Budget Price £3.99

with the IBSA re-release moved to Re-release #3.

Reviews for the full price Dinamic release are from April 1991: here and here.
Reviews of the GBH budget release are from September 1992: here and here.

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[Alessandro]

Loco - The game is inspired by Sega coin-op Super Locomotive.

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[druellan]

Also, could the files for Sinclair User 127: Great Eight 16 be added to the corresponding entry?

Hi! I think the files are already there, perhaps part of the last update, can you confirm? Thanks!

[Alessandro]

Also, could the files for Sinclair User 127: Great Eight 16 be added to the corresponding entry?

Hi! I think the files are already there, perhaps part of the last update, can you confirm? Thanks!

Yes they are

I am still waiting for the .SCL and .TRD files for ADB to be replaced though...

[PeterJ]

Hi [mention]Alessandro[/mention]

The last update was mainly to add ZXSR and didn't include normal updates. We will get this files updated as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience.

[StooB]

The Master

was published by Antartic, the only Spectrum release on Artic's budget label and the price should be £1.99, not £5.99
(sources: Crash review Sinclair User review Your Sinclair review)

Also, the score was missing from the YS review and shows up here as "Not Rated", but the index of every YS score from the final issue shows that it should have been 5.

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[Metalbrain]

Not exactly a bug, but I've just realized 2 maps for Las Tres Luces de Glaurung are exactly the same, just one is bigger than the other:

check:
TresLucesDeGlaurungLas.jpg
TresLucesDeGlaurungLas_2.jpg

Maybe we can just remove the smaller one?

(The same happens in WoS)

[druellan]

In Football Manager 2: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=1827
The file named FootballManager2_2.tap.zip is NOT a Spanish version of Football Manager 2, but a Spanish, without copyright, version of Football Manager 1

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[StooB]

World Cup Carnival

The unsourced comment on this game reads:

The explanation which U.S. Gold gave for the World Cup Carnival fiasco (re-releasing the ancient Artic game World Cup Football at twice the price for anybody who can't remember) was that they had commissioned a programmer to write an original game but the game was terrible and they did not have enough time to have a new game written before the World Cup. There must therefore be a completed unreleased version of WCC floating about somewhere.

This appears to be completely made-up - there's nothing to support this in any of the magazine references, and it's not even the excuse they gave to Crash at the time.


According to "The History of US Gold" by Chris Wilkins:

‘At the time Ocean knew something about football with Jon Ritman’s Matchday, so Woods and Ward said to Geoff, look, football games are really hard, let us do this. We’ll get a World Cup game for you, and we’ll use our Match Day code. Anyway, something happened there and theoretically Ocean were going to go away and develop the game. Three months before the World Cup we were so busy I hadn’t given it much thought. So I asked Geoff if he’d seen anything of the game from Ocean, and he said, no, I’ll call them up. He phoned to learn they’d done nothing on it. So we had this licence, we had the World Cup coming – and we said, sh*t we need a game.’
‘That’s when we went out to every single developer in the UK,’ Geoff takes up the tale. ‘Artic were the only one who came forward and said they could do it in time.’

So, the comment should either be removed, or updated. There really isn't an even worse version of World Cup Carnival out there somewhere.

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[Frankie]

Name change

This one:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=14836

Needs to be changed from:

Skatteberegning

to:

Skatteberegning 1983

Does this mean the release year is wrong too? (Currently says 1984)

I would leave it at '84. Might have been released start 84. Can't remember how it was done back then, as I was to young to pay taxes To clarify this we would need to see a picture of the tape label, as the inlay or the program itself doesn't say anything about it.

[moroz1999]

Oneiroid (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=17226) is produced by Slip (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=13432). Triumph may be the publisher (of demo version?), I don't know for sure.
Slip is Sergey Slobodchikov, Russia, Khabarovsk. He was a member of Action (group, Russia, Khabarovsk): https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... bel_id=355
Action is called in Oneiroid as ActionStudio.

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[moroz1999]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... bel_id=267 - AGSoftware is from Saint Petersburg according to Evacuator game.

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[Ralf]

AGSoftware is from Saint Petersburg according to Evacuator game.

And do we have in ZXDB information about the town of an author/group?

I know it's an important thing in Russian scene - these guys were from Moscow, these from Novosibirsk and so on...

But in case of Western commercial games in most cases we just wouldn't know...

[moroz1999]

AGSoftware is from Saint Petersburg according to Evacuator game.

And do we have in ZXDB information about the town of an author/group?

I know it's an important thing in Russian scene - these guys were from Moscow, these from Novosibirsk and so on...

But in case of Western commercial games in most cases we just wouldn't know...

It would be nice idea to display all the authors and companies on a world map, using some maps engine like OpenLayers. This would make this city/town information really valuable.

One more correction:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=13280 - Silva Soft is a person, not company. He is from Golitsyno-2 (Krasnoznamensk), Russia, his name is Sergey Zapara.

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