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Odd Afterburner magazine reference

NickHNickH
edited April 2009 in Infoseek database
This is a weird one, the following line is in the list of magazine references - could use a bit more info to avoid confusion if not a bug.

Crash 1.89 (Feature)

Edit: To me it refers to the Afterburner promo booklet (which is already in the archive), but a note along those lines might be useful for other people.
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  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited April 2009
    I'll write a bit of awk to check the SPOT listing for obscure page zero entries which appear in Infoseek. (There are a lot of irrelevant page zero entries in SPOT that Martijn discards from his Infoseek data, so I'll have to winnow out the real page zero magazine references from the other non-mag stuff in there - like CD, SSD and author references.) I'll add suitable comments and send Martijn the details.
  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited April 2009
    I've checked through and there's these few below which need a comment as shown. There's a bunch of other relevant (to Infoseek) page zero references, mainly for posters, but they already have comments against them.

    The one that stumps me is the Killer Knight page zero Review reference for Crash March'84. There's a separate Run It Again feature reference for that issue and a review reference for the next issue, but I've checked through the Crash March'84 issue and I can't find any explanation for the zero Review reference.


    MANDRAGO 829 MANDRAGORE AR INFG 9.95 7-2- 829
    MANDRAGO 829 1 M CR 9.86 p. 0 Infogrames advertising supplement
    AFTERBUR1115 AFTERBURNER RS ACHI 9.99 8-97 1115
    AFTERBUR1115 2 F CR 1.89 p. 0 Afterburner advertising supplement
    TEMPLE O1602 TEMPLE OF TERROR AP ADVS 8.99 8-67 1602
    TEMPLE O160216 V SU 5.91 p. 0 on tape but no info in mag
    GUNSMOKE2205 GUNSMOKE RS GO! 8.99 5-95 2205
    GUNSMOKE2205 6 V SU 3.91 p. 0 on tape but no info in mag
    SHARK 2438 SHARK RS PLAP 2.99 8-8- 2438
    SHARK 2438 8 V YS 12.89 p. 0 on tape but no info in mag
    PREDATOR2682 PREDATOR 2 RS IMAW 10.99 7-87 2682
    PREDATOR2682 9 V SU 4.91 p. 0 on tape but no info in mag
    KILLER K3424 KILLER KNIGHT RP PHIA 5.95 6-57 3424
    KILLER K3424 3 R CR 3.84 p. 0 ???
  • mheidemheide
    edited April 2009
    Um, what? :o
    I'm afraid I don't quite understand which changes I need to make to my SPOT copy to incorporate these corrections...
    The ones you list don't seem to follow the field order (perhaps I'm looking at the wrong tables, though).
  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited April 2009
    mheide wrote: »
    I'm afraid I don't quite understand which changes I need to make to my SPOT copy to incorporate these corrections...

    That was just an extract from a consolidated report listing, joining data from various tables, which I use as an intermediate file to prepare the "SPOT - Full listing" spotlist.zip files, not from the spotdata.zip files which you use. I'd thought that you could just add the comments into the equivalent Infoseek records.

    I wasn't planning a SPOT*On update any time soon as I don't have a lot of new stuff to put in. I have about half a dozen mags outstanding, plus another 11 which I'm expecting to arrive this week. Filling in the remaining gaps is becoming increasingly difficult as the issues just aren't appearing for sale. Then some wanted PCGs turn up on eBay this week and they're all missing their covers - so I'm not going to buy them!

    I've added those comments to my files (I've deleted the Killer Knight reference, as I couldn't make any sense of it). I'll send you a note whenever the next update is ready, but it won't be for a while yet.
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