Good morning to everybody,
I often see judges at torunaments using an app on their phone to look at Oracle texts and rules, and I believe these are very useful resources (if you haven't installed one, I advise you to try).
Today, I am looking for another tool: Oracle text in TXT format (or doc, or pdf).
My goal is to be able to operate offline and to search for a specific card (or all the cards that have a specific word in their name); do you know where I can find such document?
Note: OFFLINE, not online.
Thank you.

Riccardo Tessitori

Yawgatog has been compiling these for some time:
http://www.yawgatog.com/resources/

~Rob McKenzie
Magic Judge Level II
Minnesota

Thanks Robert.
http://www.yawgatog.com/resources/ has many great resources, indeed.
The Oracle text files I download aren't visualized correctly; there is a single line with all the cards, so creating a wall of text, while I would like cards separated by carriage returns.

Riccardo

Riccardo,

What operating system are we talking about?

Carsten's app for android does this all offline (You'll have to download
the card database ahead of time but that's it). You can find it here:

http://haese.homeip.net/~carsten/dcitools/oracle.html

In addition to that I believe the app MTGTracker (Free in the Android
store) also has offline Oracle lookup.

If you're using an iPhone, then this page might have what you're looking
for, but I can't say I have personal experience with them:

http://wiki.internationalmagicjudges.net/index.php?title=Handhelds

Edit: I understand these aren't a text file but I think they do what you're looking for in the end

Edited Cj Shrader (Feb. 14, 2013 10:56:38 AM)

Originally posted by Riccardo Tessitori:

The Oracle text files I download aren't visualized correctly; there is a single line with all the cards, so creating a wall of text, while I would like cards separated by carriage returns.

The Oracle text files on Yawgatog's site appear to have Unix-style newlines, meaning that Notepad and some other applications will not display them correctly. Try using Wordpad or Microsoft Word to open them; they should display properly then.

“The Oracle text files on Yawgatog's site appear to have Unix-style newlines, meaning that Notepad and some other applications will not display them correctly. Try using Wordpad or Microsoft Word to open them; they should display properly then. ”

And here I have another expample of the concept I love of “Ask the MagicJudges and they will solve all your problems in a few minutes”; this is everything I needed.
More, I discovered a couple of very interesting apps for my mobile (I use Android) too, thanks CJ.
I count that these information will be useful for others too.
Thanks to everybody!

Riccardo

Riccardo,

The MTG Guide app for iOS and Android also has oracle text offline.


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Riccardo,

What operating system are we talking about?

Carsten's app for android does this all offline (You'll have to download
the card database ahead of time but that's it). You can find it here:

http://haese.homeip.net/~carsten/dcitools/oracle.html

In addition to that I believe the app MTGTracker (Free in the Android
store) also has offline Oracle lookup.

If you're using an iPhone, then this page might have what you're looking
for, but I can't say I have personal experience with them:

http://wiki.internationalmagicjudges.net/index.php?title=Handhelds

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MTG: Judge Core in the Google Play store is another free app with offline Oracle text included :)

Most of this information can be found in the Judging Technology forum. I don't think we need to move this thread over to there, as I can envisage others looking to the Tournament Operations forum for this kind of question.