donluca wrote:Is there an estimate on when the updated (and new) VGMs will go live?
Unfortunately, there is not. But rest assured, I'm finally back to working on the sets (after frig knows how long), and Doommaster has informed me that they have some things to take care of before this. We also have drdevil as a new team member to working on the sets, so time is of the essence right now, since there haven't been very many 100% official updates since last year. I also still have yet to figure out if VB would be willing to make small, incremental updates (2-3) packs at a time to the site after I FTP them to the server, or prefer to do massive updates (10+) packs at a time.
donluca wrote:Also, can you guys provide a single file download containing all the VGM packs?
I personally don't find this unreasonable to do, but the questions are as follows:
Torrents? Yes or no? Is the community interested?
Dedicated hosting? Yes? No? Where? Reliability and download speed of hosted files? Size limitations? Expiration of hosted files? What about updates? Once a month? A week?
donluca wrote:One last thing: as the project grows, you may want to give a .dat file containing information on the current sets so people can use it to check if their vgm sets are up to date using clrmamepro (or any other software alike)
I definitely agree with you here, especially considering the following:
For the set updates, how do we determine what the new revision number is? Do we base it on tenths or whole amounts? Like 1.00 is the first version. Is 1.10 the new updated set, or is 2.00? Any idea?
I'm still in the dark as to this, as there don't seem to be any set rules on how to mark txt updates in increments.
This would be something that I think VB would probably be better suited to do, as they seem to be much more intimately familiar with the structures of logs and how data is differentiated between updates and changes.
VallyBell, what do you think? Would that be a possibility? Or worth the time? And if there was to be dedicated hosting for the large pack file as well, then would it be possible to host it here on the site, or would it be better served on an external host?