Originally Posted by TotalAnarchy (Post 378176)

When doing a review, remember to follow these guidelines:

Review

1) Review must be longer than 15 lines.
2) Review has 4 sections:
-Review
-Notes
-DOSBox Info
-How to run the game
Last three are optional but should be included if:
a) Notes - if there's additional info you have (trivia, about extras, sequels, hints or helpful comments etc)
b) DOSBox Info - If the game is run using DOSBox and needs a different number of cycles than the default ones. Additional DOSBox tweaking.
c) How to run the game - If there are additional steps needed to run the game besides starting a specific executable, it's recommended to specify them.
3) Not point-based. That means you can divide the main review into sections like (Introduction, Graphics, Sound and so on), but you're not allowed to rate them separately.
4) Include a score from 1 to 5, without counting decimals (only 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
5) I, myself consider this optional, but some updaters would appreciate if you include the game's release info and titles of the games similar to it (already on our site). But if you don't want to, don't do it. The updaters are still obligated to check the release info.
6) Save it in a txt or doc file.

Screenshots

You need to supply at least 5 screens. 5-8 screens is the optimal number. If the review is very long, you can upload up to 15 screens (that's the max). You need to include also the listingshot (titleshot, at the beginning of the game, where the title is displayed). In DOSBox you press Ctrl+F5 to capture a screenshot.

Optimal size of screenshots: 320x200. If there is no such resolution or one that can be resized to this, capture the original resolution.

Originally Posted by Luchsen (Post 381880)

The original title is Erachacha, like you can see at the character sequence which the attached screenshot shows.

Originally Posted by derboo (Post 389391)

I don't think I'll have the time/patience to review the other games (Van Slug, Lars and Interrupt). Are any uploads open to other reviewers, or is there something I'd have to do/say for that?

Originally Posted by derboo (Post 389391)

Also, is there a file size limit for games? I got a few CD based games I'd like to contribute (with CD audio, so they're pretty big even zipped).

Originally Posted by derboo (Post 404327)

For a few games I've reviewed so far I failed to give the name of the publisher (in the database, they're entered as the same as the producer).

Dragon Force - The Day 3 -> Soft Town
Eojjeonji Joheun Il-i Saenggil Geot Gateun Jeonyeok -> Korea Media Link

(Eracha and Super Trio are correct the way they are, though)

Originally Posted by marko river (Post 457592)

Why not. Can it be provided as patch or as separate game archives for each language?

Originally Posted by marko river (Post 457721)

7zip is OK, we actually changed some of out bigger archives from .zip to .7z in the last year or two.

Originally Posted by marko river (Post 457721)

Is it on CD? Can it be also added to Cellar?

Originally Posted by derboo (Post 457727)

So should I use 7z every time I have a large difference, say 160MB vs 225MB?

Originally Posted by derboo (Post 457727)

Yes, it's an ISO image, even though it seems that most of the data on there is just filler, considering how massive the compression rate is (from 445MB for the uncompressed iso to 22MB)

Originally Posted by derboo (Post 380420)

Lately, I've been introducing Korean DOS-Games on a site I frequent, HardcoreGaming 101.

http://hg101.proboards.com/index.cgi...ay&thread=5588

I wondered if those might be interesting for Abandonia to host. I understand the site won't have any of the RPGs, but there's a ton of other games that are playable without any language knowledge, and most of these games have been virtually unavailable to western gamers so far.

I figure most of the companies that made them are out of business by now, but I'd offer to check that on a case-by-case basis. I could also provide the necessary informations for the database, and maybe even write some reviews.

How about it?

Originally Posted by Arringtastic1992 (Post 482481)

Is 각개 겹파 (Gakgae Gyeokpa) - IBM PC (February 1994) available? Upload 각개 겹파 (Gakgae Gyeokpa) - IBM PC (February 1994) gameplay video?

Originally Posted by Krizalid (Post 460938)

I'm still looking around for some korean games...
especially the pc version of Battle B-daman (구슬대전 배틀 비드맨), any luck with this?

http://1u.pacn.ws/640/PA.31705.001.jpg
Pc cover

The game page from Play-Asia:
http://www.play-asia.com/battle-bead...en-70-ogp.html

Originally Posted by marko river (Post 482485)

Hi Arringtastic, and welcome to the site :)

We so not have game or gameplay video of Gakgae Gyeokpa.
If by some chance you can provide game or video, that would be great :)

Originally Posted by Mystvan (Post 482510)

Wow! Nice Korean games here.

Good to know that there are / were more games from Asia than the almost omnipresent Japan.

Originally Posted by Krizalid (Post 482794)

I highly doubt Sam derboo or whatever still actively cares about whole korean old games preservation anymore, considering he totally abandoned his main topic on hg101 forums, while still commenting on random other topics. The king of korean abandonware abandoned, that 's the brutal reality.