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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PierreDiamond:
Unfortunately the both german dictioniaries seems to be still corrupt in the newer version.

Also I can see the memory leak after closing scrobble - temp files?

But - Great Game! Thank you for your effort.

Pierre
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] babis_koz:
I can give you a Greek Dict but what about those Greek letters that don't

exist in the latin alphabet?

I mean there are 10 letters in the Greek alphabet like Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π Σ Φ Ψ Ω

What about them ?

I forgot to say that Greek alphabet has 24 letters
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nono2008:
thank you, good job
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] regificus:
Really great Game. But i have the same Problem, I cant take any German dictionary working, it would be great if anybody could help .... Thanks in advice

P.S. sorry for my bad English
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] regificus:
Hallo and really thanks for try make such a great Game for many Languages ... Try because I get the error "Error loading dictionary. Redownload and install dictionary file or request verification from author."

I have done exactly that in the How-To 3 times and flashed also a new ROM. But no dictionary work except the default one.

Please give me a Help. Please

Thanks in advice

P.S. Sorry for my bad English
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dalamario:
Ehi bbonzz, before sending a dictionary would be nice to check if it's actually an italian dictionary...

Check this few words extracted from your txt:

UH

UHI

UHM

UIDIO

UISTITI

UKULELE

ULANO

ULANOVA

ULASSAI

It's better to have a lesser word rater that inintelligible and useless words.

The dictionary you posted on post #22 is a lot better.

Try the dictionary on page 3 post #25
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thelili:
german dictonary don`t work

i have the same error at the german dictonary

"could not load dict. file ... and so on....."

know anybody a solution?

thx for this nice game
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] regificus:
It's a pity that we cant solve this problem and the Treadstarter seem to be away. I tried to send him a PM 6 - 7 day before .... It would be nice if anybody could solve the Problem because it is really a nice Game
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tuto0503:
are you making scrobble for android?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Marjinal:
Does it work under WM2003 SE? I couldn't install it into my Magician. When i try to set it up it says "Scrobble.cab is not a valid Windows CE setup file." , so it means I can't play? I'm really into word puzzles and if I run it somehow, I'd like to make a Turkish dictionary as well. Any idea to solve my problem?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] VZYGuy:
Dictionary Compiler

Sereral posts back 'acrosser' posted some instructions on how to build your own dictionaries: search for DawgSharp.

The attached zip file has the program DictUser.exe which is the .NET 2.0 implementation of DawgSharp. It worked for me, I made my own dictionary with only the words from Websters 1828 dictionary; for 'old fashioned' scrobble.

The two output files are named d1.scro and d2.scro and will be placed into your "MyDocuments" folder.

Hope this works for you as well as it did for me.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alexcun:
Me too

Hello Acrosser, I also have the same problem, could you help us please.

Thanks again
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
It looks like there's some corruption or problem with your installation of .NET Compact Framework 3.5.

I would uninstall it from the phone, soft reboot, and then redownload and reinstall .NET CF 3.5. That error you are getting is an error with Microsoft .NET CF 3.5 code... not Scrobble code. :-) But only a couple people are getting the error so it's probably something wrong with the .NET CF 3.5 installation!

Hope this helps.

~Tony
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbonzz:
In fact, the last one is an ADVANCED dict, as told.

UH

UHI

UHM

UKULELE

ULANO

.

ADVANCED=not for beginners.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] philomathos:
Damn it - just saw that I've misinterpreted the .NET-thing:

Simply had the "Error loading dictionary. Redownload and install dictionary file or request verification from author."-warning and thought it has something to do with .NET. :rolleyes: Could have avoided some nuisance because .NET didn't want to reinstall and in order to fix that I bought SK Tools to remove all the rest(s) of .NET but had to see that there weren't any rests... Great. ^^

So Scrobble doesn't work in German after all... Isn't there any solution yet?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] psimard:
Firstly thank's a lot for sharing scrobble with everyone.

I would want to use it in French but it is not possible because of letters distribution and scores which are not the french distribution...

May be this evolution is not so big : creating a file defining the letters distribution and scores just as the dictionaries ?... May be one of us would be able to do it or help you to do it ?...

I understand you when you want to change your activity. But if I insist, it's just because it is so despiting to have such nice game and not play with it because of a detail !...

Thank's again and I am volunteer if you need help for this ! (I work under .Net and I'm ready to learn !)

Bye.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] joe50000:
I ran it on my HTC TP2 but it doesn't seem to work every time i launch the application. It doesn't appear to be a memory management problem either. It just doesn't run sometimes. Othertimes, it runs perfectly fine.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hdaackda:
download link not working!

i found a mirror on rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/214593841/scrobble.cab (v1.3)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] br0kenneckbrace:
nice work on Scrobble!

may I give a suggestion on the GUI?

it would be a nice touch if the player could physically rearrange the tile order of the letters.

This is not absolutely critical, but it would be nice.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hdaackda:
working great on my touch pro... a suggestion;

the sides could be reduced and the board itself enlarged a little bit..

and secondly, like u already know.. a save game option! (altough right now I do wht u do, keep it in the background running)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Speurder:
Dictionary Dutch

Hello,

I like your Scrobble game verry much.

i have download the Dutch dictionary.

It have not moch words.

Ik have a more completed list off Dutch words. Could you make a new dutch dictionary ?

See attach file

regards

Fred Kroes
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] madxtreme:
hi^^

nice game =)

is there a funtional german dictionary?....i tried the 2 which are in the multi package....but no one works =(

should i rename the german files in "d1" and "d2"?....the programm recognize the files with the d1-german names^^

edit: öhm^^ can you use the firefox german dictionary?^^....but it is 9,57MB^^
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ggranger3:
I have been enjoying this game, which I have installed (1.3) on my Tilt (WM6.5) and iPAQ hx4705 WM6.1). However, I have been perplexed by the appearance of a number of words that seem to be made up. Some examples are:

WAWL

MAWM

LEKE

HILLO

These look like mis-spellings of wail, maim, like and hello, but the score reflects the values of the tiles actually used. This has been happening on both devices.

Any suggestions?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] VZYGuy:
Build Your Own Dictionary

If you look at post #192 there is a way to build your own dictionaries.

You need a text file with one word per line, the attached program at #192, and then find the instructions in post #73.

Regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ggranger3:
Thanks for the suggestion, and I have follow up comments:

1. Do you know of a modern dictionary that I could download and convert? The standard dictionary does not have more recent words like "blog" or "zen"

2. I am pretty certain it is not a dictionary problem because I found I could not use those same words, getting the "not in Scrobble dictionary" message. I have tried looking up the fake words in my new Miriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary, and found no such word. I will give the replacement dictionary a try, though.

3. What is the purpose of having two separate dictionaries?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] VZYGuy:
English Dictionary

Here are 80,000 words. A pretty good start and you can add your own.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/collections/interfaces/examples/dictionary.txt
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] babis_koz:
Finally I made a greek-like dict.

It's Greeklish actually.

I kept all the latin letters and replaced

all the others as they appear on my keyboard.

I wish we could have it in Greek !!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] itajackass:
i can't build a italian dictionary with the program dictuser... can someone help me? i post .txt file

another problem... in italian, letters like J,W,Y,K and X... are useless :)

EDIT: problem is my .txt too big! 600kb... how can i solve this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sy.Park:
fatal corruption in my HTC model

it's been a year after v1.3 uploaded, but now i found this goooooood app...

i'm using HTC touch dual(neon100), wm6.5 with .NET compact framework v3.5 and i got some messages and app doesn't work.

if u're still here, could you please find any solution for me?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ChrisG38:
Download page

I've been trying to access to the download page for a few days and all I get is a 404 message error which says that the page doesn't exist.

Any idea?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thrill14:
Scrabble/Scrobble for Sprint TP2

Hi --

Relatively new to these boards. Been ready the early posts, and even downloaded an apparently old version of Scrobble, but can anyone tell me if there is a working version of Scrabble/Scrobble for the TP2? At a total loss here.

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sbroec01:
Just changed my phone to one that has a landscape screen... Any chance of seeing a version 1.4 some time that has a selection of screen layouts?

Many thanks,

Stephan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pataluc:
hi acrosser,

great job with scrobble... i'm sad to read that! ^^

i'm french and like many others i'd like we could be able to play with french points and letter distribution... any chance you may publish your code so we can try to fix this?

++
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] yatman60:
New to board

Hi all,

I'm new to the Scrobble thread and had a quick question.

Is there a way (or a version) that will allow for a larger playing board to take advantage of the larger screen size? I have an HTC Imagio and while the game is playable and manageable, it would be nice to have a larger board and even nicer if the game supported a screen rotation.

Anyone have any information on whether this exists or if it's in the works?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pedrosz1:
Spanish dictionary

Hi,

I wonder if you have spanish dictionary available. If not it could be great if you can release it.

Thanks in advance

Pedro
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] g4g0:
Supports WQVGA?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nightwish2:
This game is cool, but unfortunately german dictionary gets error messages (both of them).. is this known or didn't anyone try it by now?

EDIT: Ok ok, I see after reading all through the posts that this is a common problem.. Did anyone of you german posters an personal geran dict that works out and would be willing to post it for me?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] envoy_467:
cant download... any help?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JinB:
freewarepocketpc net has it
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Natharin:
I found a excelent Spanish dictionary on a Spanish fan WEB of Scrabble. I changed the "ñ" for "nn", and upper all letters. The only handicap is the size...

I love your game, but with the actual spanish dictionary i just can't play.. :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xavax:
Hi,

So how do i add or edit the dictionaries in .scro format? I tried to edit the original dictionaries but i do not see letters but numbers. Am i missing something?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] damac:
Couldn't download from here and freewarepocketpc had older version. Found this

http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Text/Scrobble-73295.shtml
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jjollyroger:
hi, I have a huge italian txt file (about 700.000 words-8,5 MB) , I tried to convert to a scrobble dictionary but failed.

could anybody help, please?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dark-Beam:
;)

This is an updated, fantastic dictionary in italian. Due to device capabilities I only included words in range 2-9. :D In my life I played loads of Scrabble games, and I never needed 10+ words. Only a true scrabble master can normally put a 9-letter word I think... :)

It's up-to-date (words like DJ and SUDOKU are in!) and I strongly reccomend it. No names of towns (as they will never be considered valid in any scrabble game)

Enjoy
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wapvirus:
Thanks for sharing the link :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ady_95:
can someone convert this into *.scro please. i need this dictionary and my pc is broken...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] artnouveau:
How can I convert it formed a dictionary of Scrabble?

The Italian vocabularies are posted here are very very limited ... I ENG-700 000 vonvertire vocabulary even though it might slow the game down, but without a complete vocabulary of the game is pretty useless, no matter how well done! :-(

ITA

Come posso convertire un dizionario ne formato di Scarabeo?

il vocabolari italiani si qui postati sono molto molto limitati... vorrei vonvertire il vocabolario ITA-700000 anche se potrebbe rallentare il gioco, ma senza un vocabolario completo il gioco è praticamente inutile, per quanto ben fatto! :-(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] artnouveau:
I pulled out all the words from the vocabulary Italiano_700000 length less than or equal to 8 (besides the dictionary became too large and Scrobble was in error).

I converted the vocabulary and now I share it with you. Time goes really well! ;-)

The only drawback, you can not save games. :-(

Ho estratto dal vocabolario Italiano_700000 tutte le parole di lunghezza inferiore o uguale a 8 (oltre il dizionario diventava troppo grande e Scrobble andava in errore).

Ho convertito il vocabolario e ora lo condivido con voi. Ora va davvero bene! ;-)

Unico neo, non si possono salvare le partite. :-(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jarrick:
Tested this on my Axim X51V VGA and it works perfectly. I'll be waiting for the addition of playing computer opponents.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbonzz:
Attached the Italian dictionary: hope you'll support it
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mirskym:
Just for your interest and comparison, there is an existing "scrobble"-like freeware game at http://xwords.sourceforge.net/. But the graphics on Scrobble sure look nicer.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
CPU players

Thanks for letting us know about the compatibility Jarrick.

I have computer opponents finished and I'm expecting to release v1.0 today (Thu. Jan. 29 where I am) or maybe tomorrow.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
Italian language support

Thanks for the dictionary. There were just 2 ` characters (after PO and PIU) that I had to remove, but otherwise it was in just the right format!

I have attached the Italian dictionary in Scrobble format. Here's how you replace the English Scrobble dictionary:

1. Download dict-italian.zip and unzip the files. Copy them to your device.

2. Rename the following 2 files in the folder \Program Files\Scrobble\:

d1.scro (to d1-en.scro)

d2.scro (to d2-en.scro)

3. Rename d1-italian.scro and d2-italian.scro to d1.scro and d2.scro, respectively.

4. Restart Scrobble.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
Thanks! Yeah I checked out xwords. I actually looked at their source code as a guide and borrowed a method they used for programming the CPU player AI.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbonzz:
whoops... i did a check for ' but missed `

Thank you so much!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
NEW VERSION 1.0 (not beta anymore)

Check out the new version 1.0 with AI / CPU opponents.

Also read through the comments for more info on multi-language support (Italian, French and Dutch so far).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ruimcpsousa:
It's really sad no to have QVGA support:(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bigchrizzieboy:
Dutch dictonary file finished

A little late, but better late then never:o.

I had other things to do (work and playing with WM 6.5).

Here it is...

The Dutch dictonary file for scrobble (had to ZIP it because off the size)!

It are 11309 words.

All uppercased, changed the "wéï®d" letters into normal letters.

AALTEN

AAN

AANBELLEN

AANBESTEED

COÖPERATIE -> changed in -> COOPERATIE

etc...

Hope someday it will fully support QVGA or i will have someday a VGA device:D

Enjoy Scrobble!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] devinc:
I agree about lack of QVGA support. This looks like a really neat game but it is unplayable on QVGA screens.

Devin
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbonzz:
Italian advanced dictionary (this is for acrosser only, needs to be converted): now 93880 words (previous was ~50.000)

acrosser: in a next version should be great the ability to add words directly ingame (something like, during composition, where now apperas the "this word is not in dictionary" error, "do you want to use it anyway and to add to dictionary?")
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
Scrobble Dutch dictionary

It was -almost- perfect.. just ENQUêTE and a few other words with that funny "e" that looks like it's wearing the Chinese farmer's hat (ê).

I've attached the 2 Dutch dictionary files zipped into one. Just follow the other instructions on this thread for replacing the English Scrobble dictionary with an alternate-language dictionary!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
New bigger Italian dictionary

I've created and attached a zip file containing the two .scro dictionary files for this new, larger Italian dictionary. I only had to fix and remove CHÂTILLON and JOVENÇAN (replaced the Â with A and the Ç with C).

That would be a neat feature to be able to add words (like your word processor's spell check feature usually lets you do). However, the d1.scro and d2.scro files are actually just a series of numbers that represent a huge, complex "tree" of word prefixes and suffixes (called a DAWG). These files are created ahead of time using the language.txt files, and take up to 20 seconds to generate. I could use a regular text dictionary instead, but the DAWG structure makes looking up words and forming anagrams (for the CPU players) happen much, much faster!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hanackin:
hi just to let you know that it works perfectly on my WVGA HD !! :cool:

I will provide you some screenshot to let you see how it fits :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbonzz:
thanks: i did a search for almost all accented letters but missed Â and Ç (anyway these are french words, and are inside the dictionary because are famous little towns in Aosta Valley)

I've seen: if you think txt would be too slow, the compiled dictionary is anyway huge enough to play :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hanackin:
so here you are !!

And i think i already suggest it but multilingual support would be awesome !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
QVGA support

Some users have reported success running Scrobble on their QVGA device. What device are you using? Are you using the directional-pad to move the board around?

Can you take screenshots of the program running (Ilium Screen Capture) so I can see where and why it's not working?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
Scrobble multilingual

Thanks for the screenshots... I like the font!

What language do you want it to support? If you look through the comments in this thread there are several languages already (Italian, Dutch, French). If you can find me a text file containing all the words in the desired language, one word per line, and only using the letters A to Z, I can give you the necessary files and instructions to have Scrobble use that language instead of English.

EDIT: Oh I see you wanted French. Follow these instructions to have Scrobble use a French dictionary instead of an English one:

1. Download the attached dict-french.zip. Extract the 2 files to your device.

2. On your device, go to \Program Files\Scrobble\ (or wherever Scrobble is installed), and rename the following files:

d1.scro

d2.scro

...to d1-en.scro and d2-en.scro (or anything else).

3. Replace them with d1-french.scro and d2-french.scro from the zip file, and rename those two files to d1.scro and d2.scro.

4. Restart Scrobble. It will then use the French dictionary instead.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hanackin:
thanks for the dictionary ;)

but you've already posted it on the first page LOL :D i'm kidding, hey dude ;)

No I was talking about having the app in french instead of english, so all the menu, pop up, etc... :cool:

edit : for the the font you can get it here, it is the "hand" one
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bigchrizzieboy:
Scrobble 1.0 on QVGA

More people asking how it looks and works on QVGA. So i installed version 1.0 and tested it, maked some screenshot's again (like i dit with the prevois versions). It's tested on my HTC Kaiser WM 6.1 in portrait

What has changed (what i think):

The scroll-bars disappeared when moved to lower right, but the board is stil a quarter off what is supposed to be.

More things are readable, but not yet everything.

See the zoomed in screenshots:

- little numbers beside the letters

- letters on the board

- last word (upper-right)

- "loading" text

pic1: how it starts. - pic2: moved with d-pad to upper left - pic3: moved to lower right - pic4: moved back (center button) playing a couple off words.

pic1: Zoomed in after submitting a word - pic2: Zoomed in after a move

p.s.

Sorry for forgetting the "ê" in the dictonary:o, good to see it's used in this game.

I use SPB screenshot for the screenshots:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
Multi-language support for menus, labels, buttons, etc.

Heh yeah I was thinking "didn't I already post a French dictionary??" but thought maybe I'm just going crazy. Now I see what you mean.

If you would like to translate all the menu items, labels, button captions, etc. to French I'll consider putting a "Game -- Language" menu item that gives you a dropdown and changes the language.

EDIT 2: I was considering offering support for other languages for the game menus, labels, buttons and other text. But after I started programming multi-language support I gave up because I currently have everything hard-coded in. So it would take a long time to convert and rewrite everything. Maybe I should have thought of that when I started and just wrote everything in Esperanto!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
QVGA screenshots

Thanks for these screenshots. It helps me to determine what I need to change to make it more QVGA-friendly (the Microsoft QVGA device emulator doesn't work very well). I will try to write some code in an upcoming version that will detect sub-VGA resolutions and move/resize some of the letters, fonts, etc. to make them display better on QVGA screens.

Until then, when you play Scrobble you might just want to have the scores for each letter handy / printed out!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbonzz:
if you do it, count on me for Italian
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
no multi-language support after all

I considered it, and started coding it, but it would take me a long time just to add support for other languages (for the menus, buttons, labels, etc.)... as everything is currently hard-coded in and would involve an extensive modification.

I'd rather start a new interesting project! I hope everyone will be okay with English.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
v1.1 coming soon

Oops -- my bad! I didn't notice that the board no longer is correctly sized on QVGA/WVGA screens in version 1.0.

I'm fixing this and some other things in v1.1. I should have it done and released by around 11PM PST (GMT-8) on Sat. Jan 31, 209! (If you REALLY want to play Scrobble ASAP!! :) )
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aeratos:
any greek language?