Getting Claude to extract data from a 1997 football manager game
The author reflects on their nostalgic experience with the football manager game FIFA Soccer Manager 97. They successfully used Claude to extract data from the game's files, creating a comprehensive website and CSV files for easier access to player and team information. The project has been shared on GitHub, allowing others to replicate the process without needing AI tools.
- ▪The author has been playing FIFA Soccer Manager 97 since childhood and continues to enjoy it today.
- ▪Claude was used to extract data from the game files, resulting in a detailed website and CSV files.
- ▪The project has been published on GitHub for others to replicate the data extraction process.
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There's a football manager game I got for my birthday when I was nine years old: FIFA Soccer Manager 97. I spent countless hours playing it as a child, trying to win the league, the cup or just avoid getting the sack! Two years later I got a newer manager game with better graphics and more complex gameplay but it ran incredibly slow and I didn't enjoy playing it at all, so I stuck with the 1997 one. Every couple of years I get it out again and spend an evening basking in nostalgia and reliving the experience. Originally it was made for Windows 95, and it was still working on Windows until (I think) Windows 10. But it works perfectly well in Wine on Linux, so I can still play it today. It just has a teeny tiny resolution and looks silly on my 42" monitor.
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