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Regardless of any prior personal comments made on this thread, I recently decided to not invest in the new consoles. Instead, I'm thinking and moving forward with the new standards. Investing in Onlive and Ouya seems more practical.
I think reproductions should be included as long as its not just a 1off hack of something. To me, my definition of a repro is a game that is not normally available in the area its being reproduced for and its then translated and put on a cart/disk and made for sale in some sort or fashion whether it be a limited number of release or available on a repro website. Examples include Mother for the NES, DQ IV and V for the SNES. I have a few of my own. DQ Monsters Caravan hearts for the GBA and Ys IV on the SNES.
What I dont think should be on here are hacks of games that arent available unless you just download the shit from the internet or something. If you have the only copy of Super Dipshit bros, well outstanding for you but its not really something that needs to waste a spot in the database. A pirated game can be considered one of these cause there are so many different variations that it would take 100s of different options to cover every scenario. Some of those pirate carts have over a thousand games on them and almost none of them are the same on each cart.
My problem with the Repro argument is that (in most cases) everything can be repro'd. If the database is complete and includes all reproductions for each region, we essentially get several worldwide release database. Sure some games require special chips (NES Sunsoft games). But if you have a programmable IC, you can repro any game.
The only reason I see repros wanting to be listed is to list those acclaimed games that routinely get repro'd. The games like Mother, Golden Axe 3, Monster World 4, etc. The only reason these repro games would be listed on the database as opposed to others is due to popularity at the time.
My feeling is, if I have a repro of Monster World 4, I'm going to list the JP Monster World 4. The repro is the ROM of JP Monster World 4 dumped on another cartridge with a fan translation. I would be hesitant to say the repro cart has any right to be separately listed an an NA region. Does it have a region?
If someone has a repro, let them list it under it's original release. Seriously, it is easy to make your own repros with the right equipment. It is almost literally the same as burning a game.
This is wicked cool, but does not warrant a new spot on the database. Especially if it is just a region issue. Otherwise I want my homemade repro of Super Mario 2 (Japanese Lost levels) added. I burned it to a chip myself. Hell, I even printed out a nice label.
What teck said. I've also found that despite assurances of people putting things into special categories, keeping things clean in the db, and so on, most repros appear like so:
http://vgcollect.com/item/49106
If you click through, you'll see that it's an unofficial release, but there's absolutely no info to quantify what that entails, where it comes from, whether it's from a repro group, or some kid in his basement. By allowing any of them, we should technically be allowing those one-off homebrew creations too, even though they don't really 'exist' in any marketplace sense of the word.
Only 10?
geez, I could pick out the crazy holy grails like NWC90 or Air Raid for Atari but I'm going to pick 10 items I really want in my collection to play.
But if I won a contest saying I can have any 10 items video game related. I'd have to pick the holy grails. lol
I picked up a dozen 360 and PS3 games from Target today. They were almost all clearance and then there was a buy 2 get 1 free sale on.
PS3:
DuckTales Remastered
Wait. What? Was there a disk in there?
The dialog pop with those options only show up when you are on the Item page.
If you are on Browse or Search it simply adds them with no extra data. This is because those pages allow you to select multiple items and I couldn't figure out a good way to handle it.
Every game is lacking in one way or another, but generally speaking....
Borderlands 2?
As I understand it, the previous Retron consoles were NOAC based, and were only as good as the current chip revision. This led to several different hardware revisions for the same console, but the only way to tell which one you had was to open it up. This new console is Android-based, which already has excellent compatibility with most of the troublesome games. Plus, with the addition of a SD card slot, it should allow for firmware updates. I'm keeping an eye on this, and am remaining cautiously optimistic about it.