Error Listings and Rejected Edits 2026

[price5474]

I tried to add the genre of Action-Adventure to Lil Gator Game: Gator of the Year Edition (https://vgcollect.com/item/291017) and it was rejected with a note saying it's a platformer.

Nintendo online storefront lists the genre as action adventure, though there is a tag for platformer.  Game FAQs has it as an Action Adventure Open-World.  Am I missing something somewhere that says its a platformer?

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/lil-gator-game-gator-of-the-year-edition-switch/

[dhaabi]

If you re-submit that same data information, it will be approved.

Personally (which doesn't matter for the database), Lil Gator Game looks to primarily be an open-world adventure game complemented by minor platforming and action segments. Genres are incredibly subjective which complicates how data should be submitted considering the database is focused on objective information, and it's the only field like this. When browsing search engine results, I saw one source define this game as a RPG. Also, let it be known that when I personally respond to Genre field edit submissions, I do not rely upon GameFAQs and or platform-specific storefronts like Nintendo, both of which I have previously seen wrong genre information attributed to games.

[bizzgeburt]

created a blank entry:
https://vgcollect.com/item/291370

please delete 

[Agozer]

https://vgcollect.com/item/277326

As far as I'm able to figure out, this entry should have [UK] in its title.

The copy I have with a different bar code number seems to the the "general" EU release.

[dhaabi]

https://vgcollect.com/item/277326

As far as I'm able to figure out, this entry should have [UK] in its title.

Correct—I've just made the necessary Name field changes. The reason a [UK] TLD was absent before is because the [UK] TLD should only be used when a "general Europe" release is also present within the category.

If you're ever unsure about where a PAL Capcom-released game may have been released, this small guide I compiled is helpful.

[Agozer]

If you're ever unsure about where a PAL Capcom-released game may have been released, this small guide I compiled is helpful.[/font]

Cool, thanks. This can turn out to be really helpful. Capcom's EU releases with English back covers have always been a bit difficult to pin down.

[pajam]

Rejected Edit Question:

I attempted to update the Cover Art image for Chained Echoes on the Switch eShop [NA], but my edit was rejected. Even though the image I provided is the official Cover Art as seen on the Nintendo Switch console, and the Virtual Game Card. And is the consistent square format that can be seen in most of the Switch eShop [NA] category.

• Current Cover Art:
• The current cover art on the listing is essentially the title art "slide" image being used on the nintendo.com page's carousel:
• 
• Image file on Nintendo's Site:
       
 
• While this is fairly representative "Title Art" for the game, this is a rectangular/landscape banner image on the website, not the actual game "Cover Art" that is used on the console itself (and seen in the owner's library, and on the owner's "Virtual Game Card") which are all the square format image that I submitted.
• You can see the see the square-format cover art fairly consistently with all the other listings, when you browse that category: Switch eShop [NA]
   
• Rejected Cover Art:
• However, my rejected cover art on the listing was the official square format art from Nintendo that is used on the console, and the Virtual Game Card, etc.
• Cover Image that I submitted:
       
• Cover Image on my Console:
       
• Cover Image as seen on my "Virtual Game Cards:"
       
 

I've been told on the forums before, that for digital games, ideally the "Cover Art" should reflect what is actually displayed on the hardware for owners of that game, on that system - and not just other general title art if it can be helped. 
So I was simply making an update to the cover art to accomplish this, for both accuracy's and consistency's sake.

EDIT:

In fact, I just added a new listing for a Nintendo Switch Eshop game, and within minutes, a mod had already overwritten my listing to replace the actual game "Cover Art" with the generic carousel slide title image from Nintendo's webpage.

I created this listing: My Friend Peppa Pig for the Switch eShop [NA], and used the actual Cover Art (from Nintendo, and as seen on the Switch Console), and within minutes the listing had been already updated to change the cover art to use the website carousel banner image version instead of the console game's cover art version.

I'm seeing similar edits to other games I've created too. This one for Dark Forces Remastered had the cover art overwritten 4 months after I created the listing.

It gets very frustrating when I go to the effort of getting the actual image and info from the source, to match the cover art seen on the console, as instructed by the mods on here. Only for them to either reject or overwrite it so many times.

So which is it for digital game cover art? Should we use the actual cover art for the game itself? Or just the general title art from a webpage?

[dhaabi]

First, thanks for being thorough with your post by supplying images.

I attempted to update the Cover Art image for Chained Echoes on the Switch eShop [NA], but my edit was rejected. Even though the image I provided is the official Cover Art as seen on the Nintendo Switch console, and the Virtual Game Card. And is the consistent square format that can be seen in most of the Switch eShop [NA] category.

I've been told on the forums before, that for digital games, ideally the "Cover Art" should reflect what is actually displayed on the hardware for owners of that game, on that system - and not just other general title art if it can be helped.
So I was simply making an update to the cover art to accomplish this, for both accuracy's and consistency's sake.

Actually, what you're saying that's been instructed to you in the past is untrue. This is evident in the previous instance you've posted about art for a digital game entry being rejected when I replied the following:

Gears of War 2 (Xbox Games Store (X360) [NA]) Cover Art Rejection

Is there a reason this official version is being rejected?

Ideally, all art for digital entries should reflect the art that's shown on native hardware like what you've presented with your attached photo, though that it an unrealistic hurdle for both members and staff to deal with us such hardware is not always available to use to confirm such information (for example, I do not own an Xbox 360.) So, instead, usually what's present on the online storefront is the next most correct information which, in this instance, appears to be the same.

To reiterate: because we can't expect anybody—whether they be staff or non-staff members—to have the means to utilize specific hardware to access how images for digital games are formatted, we instead must rely upon the public images that typically can be gained from official online storefronts. And, currently, the entry art for 227673 reflects such image. I perhaps should have worded this more resolutely then, but I am now. As of this writing, there is no formal rule written in the style guide for what specific entry art should be supplied to digital game entries, so this is an unwritten rule for the time being.

[bobi]

but my edit was rejected

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

[tripredacus]

First, thanks for being thorough with your post by supplying images.

I've been told on the forums before, that for digital games, ideally the "Cover Art" should reflect what is actually displayed on the hardware for owners of that game, on that system - and not just other general title art if it can be helped.

Actually, what you're saying that's been instructed to you in the past is untrue

To be clear, that past instruction is true because I've posted it before.
However, as pointed out, if a directive is not present in the Style Guide or Adv Guide, then it is only a recommendation.

In a perfect world, we would want to be able to have the art as it appears on the console itself, and not a website reflecting what is available. This is because there are many instances where the actual art graphics are different. It may not make sense now as to why we would want this, but it is based on the fact that the information we have available now from these digital storefronts will not be around forever. Consider 10-20 years down the road when those web versions of console stores no longer exist, and you can only know what an art was supposed to look like by booting up an old console.

[pajam]

As of this writing, there is no formal rule written in the style guide for what specific entry art should be supplied to digital game entries, so this is an unwritten rule for the time being.

Thanks for clarifying.

I already knew there was no official rule; I checked thoroughly just the other day (including bookmarking that exact link you provided so I can easily check up on it later if need be), just in case there had been any official ruling or clarification before I started adding more listings or editing others. That's why I used our interaction last time to guide me, since that's the only official statement I have seen regarding it. When told "ideally... it should be this way" then I will try to go to the extra effort to handle it that way if I can. Especially since the style guide is usually incredibly specific on doing things a very particular "right way" so if something is said to be the "ideal," I'll try to help in contributing to that "ideal" process if I can, when it's not an unrealistic hurdle for me to do so.

Especially b/c we ended that interaction with you at least showing some form of curiosity in my method for confirming the official listings in the Wayback Machine:

How do you easily determine which results link found on Wayback Machine actually represents the store page so that art can be confirmed?

which I guess led me to incorrectly assume there was an official desire to confirm the "official" cover art or product listings if possible. So I felt it was still worth my time to attempt to use the accurate cover art when making edits or adding new listings.


Anyway, since our last discussion was specific to the now unavailable marketplace.xbox.com - where the official 360 store online listings (that included Description/ReleaseDate/Publisher/CoverArt) can no longer be publicly accessed, other than through https://web.archive.org/ backups. Meaning, accessing or confirming the official listings and art requires a much trickier method, and so in that case, I 100% understood the hurdle something like that would impose on the general user or mod to find or confirm the official accurate data. 

However, in regards to my post right now - related to Nintendo and the Switch eshop - none of that is the case. So I wasn't expecting such a hurdle here 
As of now you do not need specific hardware (like the console) to confirm/see the actual "Cover Art" on Nintendo's website. It is publicly visible for everyone (not just owners of the game/console). While people who've actually bought the games can find the same cover art images on the website under "Order history" or "Virtual Game cards," everyone else can publicly see the exact same art online too. The same image used as the official "Cover Art" on the console, is the image that Nintendo uses for all the "thumbnail" images all over their website:

• Seen while Browsing Games:
   
• Seen under "More Like This" or "Recently Viewed" 
     
• Seen on the "Top store products" 
     
• Seen on the contents lists of "Bundles" 
     
• etc.

So I just figured this console/system wasn't quite the same in regards to an "unrealistic hurdle" as the inaccessible 360 marketplace product listings. Especially b/c at the end of the day, I assumed that it wasn't an unrealistic hurdle to look at the bulk of 2,602 listings in the category here on VGCollect, and see the majority are consistently using the square image format, and use that observation as pretty good evidence to make the assumption it is likely the accurate format for these games.

Meh, I'm just usually a stickler for keeping my collection consistent and/or "technically correct" if I can manage it, and that's one of the reasons I've loved VGCollect in having very specific listings for niche versions of different physical games, and having very specific style rules for how to list and organize such games. So it can get frustrating seeing some of that effort get reverted in less than consistent manners, so I figured it's always worth coming to the forums to plead my case, and document my sources, and share links, and examples, to methods others (users and moderators/staff) can use to find, collect, or vet the data as well... in case they were actually curious to do so.

At the end of the day, that's all I can do, so I suppose no worries from here on out with this one. I'll just stop putting in the effort.

[dhaabi]

First, thanks for being thorough with your post by supplying images.

I've been told on the forums before, that for digital games, ideally the "Cover Art" should reflect what is actually displayed on the hardware for owners of that game, on that system - and not just other general title art if it can be helped.

Actually, what you're saying that's been instructed to you in the past is untrue

To be clear, that past instruction is true because I've posted it before.
However, as pointed out, if a directive is not present in the Style Guide or Adv Guide, then it is only a recommendation.

In a perfect world, we would want to be able to have the art as it appears on the console itself, and not a website reflecting what is available. This is because there are many instances where the actual art graphics are different. It may not make sense now as to why we would want this, but it is based on the fact that the information we have available now from these digital storefronts will not be around forever. Consider 10-20 years down the road when those web versions of console stores no longer exist, and you can only know what an art was supposed to look like by booting up an old console.

That webpages for digital stores will one day not exist is something I've thought about myself. For example, it's already an effort to gain the art that was present on pages for older digital platforms, such as PlayStation Store for PlayStation Portable games.

Now, based on what you've said—for the entry that pajam has brought up, which of the images are correct for our purposes and with our limitations since we can only recommend what to do instead of directing to an objective rule?

[beckytronica]

My rejected edit to the PS3 PSN version of Zuma (https://vgcollect.com/item/72705) has Sony Online Entertainment as a publisher. They did in fact, handle the publishing for the PS3 versions of Bejeweled 2, this game, Heavy Weapon, Peggle and Feeding Frenzy 2 as seen here: https://blog.playstation.com/2009/02/19/zuma-available-today-on-psn/

Even the games themselves have the SOE logo in them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3QL49u1hsw

[dhaabi]

My rejected edit to the PS3 PSN version of Zuma (https://vgcollect.com/item/72705) has Sony Online Entertainment as a publisher.

Thanks for the clarification—if the same information is re-submitted, it shall be approved. The two sources I checked before responding to your edit reported Oberon Media, which I believe I did mention in the Admin Comments.