Author Topic: Arcade Search Engine (Read 2627 times)

sphetr2 · « **on:** October 24, 2006, 03:56:29 pm »

Here's a search engine I created with Google Custom Search Engine. It searches some of the major sites for home arcade machine development and emulation.

http://google.com/coop/cse?cx=012148301974694894713%3Ab-tmdkyo1nc

Right now, the list of sites is:
http://www.arcadecontrols.com
http://www.forum.arcadecontrols.com
http://www.mameworld.net
http://www.mame.net
http://www.arcadeathome.com
http://www.localarcade.com/arcade_art/
http://www.mameworld.info

What else should i add? How about any other suggestions? Oh, and any one can become a contributor at the site.

sphetr2 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 24, 2006, 04:01:59 pm »

Here's the code, if you want to put it into your site:


<form id="searchbox_012148301974694894713:b-tmdkyo1nc" action="http://google.com/cse">
<input type="hidden" name="cx" value="012148301974694894713:b-tmdkyo1nc" />
<input name="q" type="text" size="40" />
<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:0" />
</form>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=searchbox_012148301974694894713%3Ab-tmdkyo1nc"></script>


And here's a quick little logo I made:

ahofle · « **Reply #2 on:** October 24, 2006, 04:43:12 pm »

That's a great idea! You may want to add the arcade controls wiki as well.

sphetr2 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 24, 2006, 04:55:29 pm »

How could I forget that?

*Added*

EDIT: Added KLOV as well.

mvolke1 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 24, 2006, 08:26:06 pm »

Thank God for people like you, sphetr2.

You are all the ones who are making my project run so much more smoothly. Thanks! This site, and St. John, are just awesome. I had no idea there were this many of us out there until a couple months ago when I started researching.

edge · « **Reply #5 on:** October 24, 2006, 09:04:58 pm »

sphetr2,
That is a great idea! Nice job.

hbm*rais · « **Reply #6 on:** October 24, 2006, 09:10:46 pm »

Great idea!

What about adding http://www.arcadeflyers.net/ ?

GoPodular.com · « **Reply #7 on:** October 24, 2006, 10:32:47 pm »

Suggestions:
http://www.retroblast.com/
http://www.mamedev.org/
http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/
http://www.mameworld.net/tigerheli/

(I don't know if a custom google search of mameworld hits the easyemu & tigerheli's stuff)

spacies · « **Reply #8 on:** October 24, 2006, 10:38:50 pm »

Nice work.

sphetr2 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 25, 2006, 08:17:49 am »

Quote from: GoPodular.com on October 24, 2006, 10:32:47 pm

(I don't know if a custom google search of mameworld hits the easyemu & tigerheli's stuff)

It does.

I added retroblast, mamedev, and arcadeflyers.

Remember, any of you guys can become contributors at the site, as long as you have a Google ID (I think). There's a link that says "Volunteer to contribute to this search engine".

eccs19 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 25, 2006, 08:54:00 pm »

A few of us Canadian guy's use www.cgcc.ca/forum

May want to add that also. It's not totally arcade based, but does have an arcade area within it.

Bill Mote · « **Reply #11 on:** October 25, 2006, 08:58:02 pm »

A friend of mine found a site a couple of years ago that allowed you to search ROMs. It allowed you to specify the type of controller (and possibly other parameters) to execute your searches. Anyone know where this site is?

dot

sphetr2 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 25, 2006, 09:47:38 pm »

Quote from: eccs19 on October 25, 2006, 08:54:00 pm

A few of us Canadian guy's use www.cgcc.ca/forum

May want to add that also. It's not totally arcade based, but does have an arcade area within it.

OK, Added.

Only problem is that I had to make a choice. Either include the ENTIRE forum (including "The Donut Shop") or nothing at all. I included the entire thing of course, in hoping that the extra forums wouldn't really appear in search results.

It's the same for the BYOAC forum. You can't really specify which boards to include, you must include them all because of the way the URLs of the forum work.

Like I said before, hopefully this won't become a big problem. But if I add many more sites like this, the search engine might give worse results.

What do you think I should do? Do any of you guys have ideas for just integrating certain boards (other than including each individual post from that forum

)?

@dot

That sounds great! Make sure you share the link if you find it.

GoPodular.com · « **Reply #13 on:** October 25, 2006, 10:47:35 pm »

It should already be included: http://www.mameworld.net/maws/

Bill Mote · « **Reply #14 on:** October 27, 2006, 09:55:52 am »

My buddy still had the link ...

http://www.jstookey.com/arcade/sortinfo/index.php

dot

sphetr2 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 27, 2006, 05:33:39 pm »

More sites added:

www.daphne-emu.com
www.rainemu.com
caesar.logiqx.com
www.system16.com
coinop.org
unmamed.mame.net
www.mameromlinks.com
www.oscarcontrols.com

Are these OK sites? Or should I remove some?

saint · « **Reply #16 on:** October 27, 2006, 06:25:22 pm »

I'd personally not have any illegal ROM sites in the list...

sphetr2 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 27, 2006, 06:46:28 pm »

Mameromlinks.com removed. That is the site you were referring to, right saint?

sphetr2 · « **Reply #18 on:** January 16, 2007, 05:08:43 pm »

Yes, it's been a while, but I added two more sites:

arcade-history.com/
clrmame.com

I also wanted this to be seen by more eyes, so I can get more suggestions on what to include/take out.

Loki · « **Reply #19 on:** January 16, 2007, 06:13:55 pm »

Nice! Havn't seen this one yet *bookmarks*

Merci ^^

sphetr2 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 16, 2007, 07:46:35 pm »

~~Alright, I now have a short web address, http://googlecade.tk/~~

The longer version (with no ads) is http://members.verizon.net/seaview2/ (hosted by ISP)

dot.tk was the first URL redirecting service I found (that's free), so I used it. Are there any others that are better that I should use?

EDIT: Never mind, found a better one: http://www.googlecade.co.nr/

clockwork · « **Reply #21 on:** January 16, 2007, 08:16:07 pm »

This is very cool. Guess I'm going to have to put up a web site now.

whynotpizza · « **Reply #22 on:** January 16, 2007, 08:26:02 pm »

Good idea.

You should also add:

www.apachecontrols.com

And also make sure everyone in the master list is included in this thing.

Here is the BYOAC master list: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=54812.0

sphetr2 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 16, 2007, 08:33:00 pm »

Quote from: whynotpizza on January 16, 2007, 08:26:02 pm

And also make sure everyone in the master list is included in this thing.

Here is the BYOAC master list: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=54812.0

You mean, add every vendor's website? Cause I can't see anything else to add for some of those vendors...

I'll add www.apachecontrols.com.

If you look up in the thread, you can see that you can become a contributor (i.e., add websites of your own) if you go to the original website.

EDIT: Here's the 'become a contributor' link.


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