Searching for prototypes

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Is there any way to look for prototypes? Certain games are described as Game123 (prototype). Is it possible to search marp for scores on these types of games?

-- Mark Longridge (zero1@look.ca), June 16, 2001

Answers

Ummmmm, dare I suggest putting "prototype" into the long game name on the search screen.... ;-þ

Cheers, Beeay.

-- BeeJay (mamester@i4free.co.nz), June 16, 2001.


Right, that works. I was trying "*prototype", and of course it didn't work. Thanks.

-- Mark Longridge (zero1@look.ca), June 16, 2001.

A lesson in searching the MARP database...

FYI, it turns out that you can use '%' in a search string to mean 'any number of characters', so searching for

  loud%prototype
finds "Cloud 9 (prototype)" recordings.

You can also put a '^' at the beginning of your search and/or a '$' at the end to ensure that the string you search for matches at the beginning and/or end of the field you are matching. For example, searching for

  ^a%e%i%o%u$

will find the only game whose name begins with an 'a', ends with a 'u' and contains all the vowels in alphabetical order. It is, of course, the famous "Aggressors of Dark Kombat / Tsuukai GANGAN Koushinkyoku". :o)

Chris.

-- Chris Moore (chris.moore@mail.com), June 19, 2001.


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