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VGCollect Site Stuff => Video Game Database Discussion => Topic started by: telly on January 26, 2017, 01:38:34 pm

Title: Development Hardware
Post by: telly on January 26, 2017, 01:38:34 pm

I was wondering about adding some GameCube beta testing consoles to the hardware section. Some stuff like the NR Reader looks pretty much like a regular GameCube but with the obvious cosmetic and packaging differences.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-GameCube-NR-Reader-NTSC-BOXED-/112278391796?hash=item1a24504bf4:g:0VIAAOSw-0xYhQKp

I thought these would be ok so I added a couple for PAL and NTSC, but there are obviously much more extreme dev kits that look nothing like the actual consoles and more like computer hardware. I noticed we don't really have any guidelines about dev hardware or if they should be in the database at all. Was that something we wanted to discuss?

Title: Re: Development Hardware
Post by: badATchaos on January 26, 2017, 05:56:50 pm

I don't mind people adding development hardware. The only issue is that a lot of stuff out there isn't documented very well or from reliable sources.

Title: Re: Development Hardware
Post by: tripredacus on January 27, 2017, 09:51:00 am

I plan on putting the PS2 dev hardware into the database, in fact one is already in there. I don't see a problem with it.

I would probably set the entry to to "unreleased but official" option.

Title: Re: Development Hardware
Post by: badATchaos on January 27, 2017, 02:57:02 pm

i can get some pics of some current generation stuff