rko search-improvement

[Monty]

inspired by the "general discussion"-thread RKO mentioned on gamespy.com

What I find most interesting is that it's not really organized by game; a fair number of songs don't even mention what games they're from.

That's possibly the worst bit of research I've ever seen - every tune on RKO is named after the SID tune that it's a remix of ... ! Plus the search facility makes it dead easy to find all the remixes of your fave game choons.

i think the author is not totally wrong. there are a few remixes that can't be found by searching for the name of the sid they are remixes of.

examples:
when you search for "monty on the run", you wouldn't get "MOTR-HiScore (Garage Band Mix)" by x-klang as a result.
same goes for "exploding fist" "WOTEF Tune 4 (The saga is complete)" by trace
"Gauntlet" "Blue Wizard Is About To Die" by binster
"suicide express" "suicide for 2 pianos" by bladiator & "groovicide" by analoq

solution:
would be nice, if the search could additionally run through the sid-column. maybe that's possible?

greetz,
monty

ps: that may only be a solution for rko, as on r64 the sid-reference is missing...

[Jan Lund Thomsen]

when you search for "monty on the run", you wouldn't get "MOTR-HiScore (Garage Band Mix)" by x-klang as a result.
same goes for "exploding fist" "WOTEF Tune 4 (The saga is complete)" by trace
"Gauntlet" "Blue Wizard Is About To Die" by binster
"suicide express" "suicide for 2 pianos" by bladiator & "groovicide" by analoq

solution:
would be nice, if the search could additionally run through the sid-column. maybe that's possible?

Fixed. And you don't even have to use underscores if you want to search for a specific SID (HVSC filenames use underscores instead of spaces).

Usually I correct titles before publishing (eg. "Ghouls n Ghosts (Errant Ghost mix)" was originally submitted as "The Errant Ghost") but admittedly I've missed a couple.

Incidentally, one of the things I've got planned for the revised layout is a "more remixes of this tune" button next to each tune.

[Monty]

wow, that was quick

Incidentally, one of the things I've got planned for the revised layout is a "more remixes of this tune" button next to each tune.

good idea, would be a nice addition

[ifadeo]

Incidentally, one of the things I've got
planned for the revised layout is a "more remixes of this tune" button
next to each tune.

new features? great!

thx monty & jan

[Vosla]

Very cool idea!