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| sworddude:
--- Quote from: dhaabi on December 29, 2024, 03:17:39 pm --- --- Quote from: sworddude on December 29, 2024, 03:01:08 pm --- --- Quote from: dhaabi on December 28, 2024, 05:04:12 pm --- --- Quote from: axiomenterance on December 28, 2024, 03:39:40 pm ---If I can ask then what is the point of even being on a site like this which the sole purpose is to catalogue legitimate games which in turn is to make sure the user knows their worth of their collection? --- End quote --- Who said that's the purpose of this site? There are also sorts of reasons people create accounts here and all sorts of ways they decide to catalog their information. At the same time, there are far more things the database tracks besides "legitimate" games. --- End quote --- repro's not catalogued though. just homebrews. Seems really pointless to catalogue repro's, maybe some of the rare decent quality stuff like from timewalk. Seems kinda pointless to do if you'd ask me however. --- End quote --- Reproduction items have long been permitted to add to the site. For example, Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park (bootleg) both exist. More often than not, database entries marked as Homebrew should actually be marked as Unofficial Release. The style guide provides this breakdown to follow: --- Quote from: tripredacus on June 02, 2020, 10:46:36 am ---Homebrew The only items that should get this option are homebrew products that were not sold in the retail space. What is not a homebrew - fan translations - hacks of existing games Unofficial Release Items that fit into this option: - any bootleg - any unlicensed game released for a console that was sold at retail - any unlicensed hardware or accessory for a console - any hacks or fan translations Homebrew vs Unofficial Release A homebrew that is released commercially for a console is considered to be an aftermarket or unofficial release in terms of the database. For a physical item, which is tracked in a physical game category, the context is for the item itself, not the data content. Example: Pier Solar and the Great Architects (the game data) is a homebrew, but the products that contain the data is an Unofficial Release. --- End quote --- --- End quote --- what bootlegs we talking though? oldschool ones from back in the day I could somewhat see the appeal of that. or can even modern era etsy ones be catalogued? If the latter is the case you could have 10+ different versions of the same retro game with a slightly different crappy version of a repro. haven't seen allot of people do that as of yet fortunately. but it seems really pointless if all of them can be catalogued. waste of space, would make the site crappy filled with actual garbage. |
| dhaabi:
--- Quote from: sworddude on December 29, 2024, 03:54:34 pm --- --- Quote from: dhaabi on December 29, 2024, 03:17:39 pm --- --- Quote from: sworddude on December 29, 2024, 03:01:08 pm --- --- Quote from: dhaabi on December 28, 2024, 05:04:12 pm --- --- Quote from: axiomenterance on December 28, 2024, 03:39:40 pm ---If I can ask then what is the point of even being on a site like this which the sole purpose is to catalogue legitimate games which in turn is to make sure the user knows their worth of their collection? --- End quote --- Who said that's the purpose of this site? There are also sorts of reasons people create accounts here and all sorts of ways they decide to catalog their information. At the same time, there are far more things the database tracks besides "legitimate" games. --- End quote --- repro's not catalogued though. just homebrews. Seems really pointless to catalogue repro's, maybe some of the rare decent quality stuff like from timewalk. Seems kinda pointless to do if you'd ask me however. --- End quote --- Reproduction items have long been permitted to add to the site. For example, Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park (bootleg) both exist. More often than not, database entries marked as Homebrew should actually be marked as Unofficial Release. The style guide provides this breakdown to follow: what bootlegs we talking though? oldschool ones from back in the day I could somewhat see the appeal of that. or can even modern era etsy ones be catalogued? If the latter is the case you could have 10+ different versions of the same retro game with a slightly different crappy version of a repro. haven't seen allot of people do that as of yet fortunately. but it seems really pointless if all of them can be catalogued. waste of space, would make the site crappy filled with actual garbage. --- End quote --- --- End quote --- They're all valid items to add to the database. However, this isn't to imply that there should be some mass effort to curate them. Just like with a lot of other items the database tracks, they should only be submitted if someone's actually wanting to add them in some capacity to their account. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: dhaabi on December 29, 2024, 04:14:18 pm --- --- Quote from: sworddude on December 29, 2024, 03:54:34 pm --- --- Quote from: dhaabi on December 29, 2024, 03:17:39 pm --- --- Quote from: sworddude on December 29, 2024, 03:01:08 pm --- --- Quote from: dhaabi on December 28, 2024, 05:04:12 pm --- --- Quote from: axiomenterance on December 28, 2024, 03:39:40 pm ---If I can ask then what is the point of even being on a site like this which the sole purpose is to catalogue legitimate games which in turn is to make sure the user knows their worth of their collection? --- End quote --- Who said that's the purpose of this site? There are also sorts of reasons people create accounts here and all sorts of ways they decide to catalog their information. At the same time, there are far more things the database tracks besides "legitimate" games. --- End quote --- repro's not catalogued though. just homebrews. Seems really pointless to catalogue repro's, maybe some of the rare decent quality stuff like from timewalk. Seems kinda pointless to do if you'd ask me however. --- End quote --- Reproduction items have long been permitted to add to the site. For example, Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park (bootleg) both exist. More often than not, database entries marked as Homebrew should actually be marked as Unofficial Release. The style guide provides this breakdown to follow: what bootlegs we talking though? oldschool ones from back in the day I could somewhat see the appeal of that. or can even modern era etsy ones be catalogued? If the latter is the case you could have 10+ different versions of the same retro game with a slightly different crappy version of a repro. haven't seen allot of people do that as of yet fortunately. but it seems really pointless if all of them can be catalogued. waste of space, would make the site crappy filled with actual garbage. --- End quote --- --- End quote --- They're all valid items to add to the database. However, this isn't to imply that there should be some mass effort to curate them. Just like with a lot of other items the database tracks, they should only be submitted if someone's actually wanting to add them in some capacity to their account. --- End quote --- This seems ridiculously bad to allow all repro's to be listed. imagine every popular super nintendo game having 10+ different repro's listed. all which look almost identical but just slightly uglier than the og. or those disc based repro's There should be some limits to what kinda repro's are allowed. imagine if someone gets crazy enough to list these kinda repro's and updates if new ones will come. will kill the database in terms of trash. imo only homebrews, some updated/upgraded versions of the og, oldschool bootlegs and or very high quality versions like from say timewalk that have a rep are allowed. anything beyond that are just killing the purpose of this site. No collector should want to list these. |
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