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How to install game data for GameRandomizer

GameRandomizer has no built-in card data. You need to get them or create data by yourself. This page explains how to add game data getting from the this site to your Android device.

Unpack the zip files

The data files are packed with Zip. GameRandomizer cannot read the Zip files directly, so that you need to extract them. There are two ways:

1. Use a Windows/Mac/Linux computer. Download zipped data files using a Windows/Mac/Linux computer and unpack them, then transfer the files to an Android device.
2. Use an Android device only. Download game data on an Android device and directly upack them. You need an Android application to unpack zip files.

I don't explain how to unpack Zip files here.

Make sure a path to the data folder

Run GameRandomizer and make sure the current path to the data folder. The menu item "More" -> "Select a data folder" shows the current setting of the path.

Change the path if you want.

Put extracted files onto the data folder

Put extracted data files at the data folder. Suppose that the path to the data folder is:

    /mnt/sdcard/GameRandomizer

and you'd like to put files extracted from 'dominion-1.0.zip', the file '__game.xml' in the zip file must be placed at:

    /mnt/sdcard/GameRandomizer/dominion/en/__game.xml

Then, execute the menu item "More" -> "Select a data folder" again. GameRandomizer shows the top folders of the extracted game data there.

IMPORTANT: Do not specify the top folder or a language code folder ('en', 'ja', and so on) of the game data as the data folder.

    /mnt/sdcard/GameRandomizer               -- Correct data folder
    /mnt/sdcard/GameRandomizer/dominion      -- NG
    /mnt/sdcard/GameRandomizer/dominion/en   -- NG

IMPORTANT: Some Zip manupilation utilities automatically create a folder and extract files under there, but GameRandomizer doesn't read those files.

    /mnt/sdcard/GRandom/dominion/en/__game.xml               -- OK
    /mnt/sdcard/GRanrom/dominion-1.0/dominion/en/__game.xml  -- NG

The latter setting also works correctly if you set the data folder to '/mnt/sdcard/GRandom/dominion-1.0'. However it is not recommended because you also have to put data for another game onto the folder.

Reload game data

GameRandomizer loads data files when:

• It starts.
• The menu item "More"-> "Reload data" is requested.
• The path to the data folder is changed.

Please do one of them.