Doing so would vastly reduce their userbase, because if all you do is mindlessly collect, you are content with either either db so long as you remain ignorant to their problems.True, TOSEC and Cowering are not explicit about explaining what their tools are meant to do. The rationale behind including bad dumps and user modifications for identification purposes is full of holes to begin with, but Cowering and TOSEC can easily blame the user for their continued distribution and collection by simply not educating them. Identifying/Renaming - why do people collect TOSEC? \ FitzRoy on 3rd April 2007, 08:03 wrote:ĭo you see any statements on TOSEC's website saying anything of the sort? Even when newbs find out what all those tags mean, it takes a higher order of thinking to understand the futility of trying to complete something which can be infinitely created. Has this been proposed before? Would TOSEC maintainers be pissed if someone just filtered out the crap in TOSEC and made new dats (with full credit of course) so that people could download only useful stuff? TOSEC could still coexist (much like GoodSets do) as an identification tool. But in the 1% effort case you could write a script that simply filters out all the crap roms from TOSEC so that people could focus on collecting playable, useful roms (or the best copy of a given rom), which would save everyone a lot of time and bandwidth. Why haven't people woken up to the fact that TOSEC is just for identification, and not collection? For collecting, it seems you would in the extreme case go the route of No-Intro (redumping, verifying, etc) in reprocessing TOSEC sets. So it makes sense to me to focus on No-Intro sets instead, and let GoodSets be a tool to datters and dumpers.
Really, the purpose of GoodSets are to identify garbage, not collect it.
When I looked into No-Intro sets I quickly realized that GoodSets are composed mainly of garbage. Like I've heard stated here before, GoodSets are like the plague, and chances are most novice collectors start with those. I'm relatively new to this scene, and I've been trying to amass a collection and understand what are the pros and cons of various sets. Identifying/Renaming - why do people collect TOSEC? \ daishadar on 3rd April 2007, 07:06 wrote:
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