"The Museum of DDR Simfile History"

[foxfire667]

Re: "The Museum of DDR Simfile History"

One counternote to that: There are currently live packs that are technically incomplete or incorrect (one obvious / notable example being BMR's Originals, which are missing a fair number of files overall, and have the wrong charts for others). (for this reason I'm +1 on the torrent idea)

Other examples being aperson / Reach packs, a few others I'm spacing out on at the moment, etc.

Oh right, some of the packs being in different states of completion makes this a little muddy. It would be in our best interest to just download at all and do some wading.

Also I did I little skimming in this catalog and holy cow, there is a lot of content in here. The sheer number of originals packages is astounding! This probably is something best left to a long sitting seed.

[choof]

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a better way to show off the catalog would simply be to shift right click in the folder that has all of the pack folder (so say it's Museum/Packs, you'd hold shift and right click in Museum), open command prompt, and type tree > museum.txt. upload it to pastebin or google drive
that way we don't have to download a 550mb file and use what looks like a virus to view said 550mb file.

[Shuey]

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choof: I hear ya with regards to outputting via cmd (that's how I USED to do it way back when I was still collecting). But nothing beats being able to browse it just like you would if the drive was connected to your PC. And with internet speeds nowadays, you'll actually save yourself time in the long run by just downloading the catalog and viewing it natively instead of via a big nasty text file .

[choof]

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yeah I was just trying to be safe
the catalog viewer is fine, I think it's actually kinda kitsch lol

[Reincarnate]

Re: "The Museum of DDR Simfile History"

Wow, wow, wow, this catalog is amazing -- there's a ton of stuff in here (and as suspected it does contain several of the missing files, and very likely has the correct versions)

[choof]

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I'm interested in seeing what kind of shenanigans this museum could potentially foster

[foxfire667]

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Yeah I can confirm this program is pretty neat, even if the size to get just the catalog is rather outlandish. Takes like a few minutes to download even with average speeds these days.

Anyone actually paranoid about the program itself for whatever reason, I already installed and ran it. Nothing wrong with it.

[Reincarnate]

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I kinda like the explorer -- certainly more interesting than just a raw text dump (and you can see the graphic previews, which is kinda cool)

[contrapatior]

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I kinda like the explorer -- certainly more interesting than just a raw text dump (and you can see the graphic previews, which is kinda cool)

explains why it's so big
cache these hands, boi

[Snapps]

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I wish I had my collection to upload. I think it was 35k files or so.

shuey to the rescue.

[Arntonach]

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Fuck I had to look up what a .ded file was. Damn this shit's old school. Perhaps someone should make a .rar or .zip file for us youngin's?

[Shuey]

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Fuck I had to look up what a .ded file was. Damn this shit's old school. Perhaps someone should make a .rar or .zip file for us youngin's?

In my opinion, "old" is irrelevant when considering "functionality". Disk Explorer Pro is awesome, and it's free! I use it to inventory all of my external hard drives.

[Arch0wl]

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if bandwith ever become an issue let me know so I can donate to hosting or whatever

[Shuey]

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Arch! Good to see you again after all these years (even if virtually, lol). I'm not sure if the statement I'm about to make is 100% accurate, but you're the first keyboard player I ever saw who could dominate Stepmania like no one else. How's your skills nowadays? Are you even more beast now than you were back in the day?! :-O

[qqwref]

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This is awesome. So cool to see someone has an archive of old files! A few years ago I tried to find every pack I could, and most of the really old ones weren't around anymore. I wonder if this fills in any of the list of missing packs...