by exoscoriae » Thu May 09, 2013 1:13 pm
I use many many sites, including old-games.ru. =)
I started by using mobygames to create a scrape/dump of every listed dos game they have. Over the past 2 years I worked through all of them. At this point I am going through various sites archives and identifying dos games that are not listed at mobygames. So far, after scouring about 10 different archives, i have located about 1,200 DOS games not listed at mobygames. So I download them, add them to my DB, and create the front end files needed for them to launch and appear in the front end. I've also attempted to correct mobygames were possible, however their approval process is quite backed up, and it really cuts into the time I could be using to work on my own database.
While doing this, i am also currently working on a Windows 3.x collection. The difficulty there is that many websites do not differentiate between 32bit windows and 16bit windows (3.x vs 95 for example).
When I released my eXoDOS action pack earlier this year, I went through Shooter Legends, title by title, to obtain many FPS games not listed at mobygames. Currently working through the Adventure Legends pages doing the same thing.
If there is interest here at 3dsl, I could post the final "missing" lists to see if anyone is interested in helping me to try and find them.