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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Are there any guides to submitting a covert art?

« on: March 11, 2014, 10:28:54 am »

Hi Matt,

Thank you so much for the reply! Thusly, I'll add (Swedish cover version) after the title unless I'm sure it's an UK-release, and if it so happens that my all-english swedish release is the same as in any other european country (I'll add item number and barcode on all my listings) then maybe there can be a discussion about changing the title of the post then.

Again, many thanks!

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Are there any guides to submitting a covert art?

« on: March 07, 2014, 05:42:52 pm »

Hi everyone, I wasn't really sure where to post this but this felt like a good enough thread.

I became a member almost a year ago, started adding my collection, and then just stopped. For reasons unknown I started again this very evening but suddenly remembered why I stopped.

It's a real chore when most of my games have a swedish or scandinavian cover, meaning I have to add hundreds and hundreds of games myself. This is bearable though (and not a complaint). What makes things more difficult is my following inquiry:

Most of my games have swedish text on the back, or something else that makes them specifically swedish or scandinavian, but quite often we get EU-but-not-UK-edition, with a PEGI-stamp, and everything, cover and manual, is all english, and I'm fairly sure that exact edition goes out to many other european countries as well. Many of the EU-items on this forum have a specific UK-cover (BBFC-rating) on them (and more often than not, sadly no codes).

How am I to act when it comes to add items to the database in this case?

Example; Batman Arkham Asylum (EU): http://vgcollect.com/item/19176 with UK-cover.
The version I have, which MIGHT be specific to sweden/scandinavia, but is all english so I don't know, looks like this on the cover: http://img.tradera.com/medium/765/179878765_ef4ef4b9-bdc2-4e40-bd09-653a49d764e7.jpg

I would actually say that in many cases, BBFC-rating-covers are exklusive to Great Britain, whereas rest of Europe gets a PEGI-cover with everything in English, so if anything, most BBFC-cover-listings should say (UK box version) after the title and all english PEGI-releases would be the standardized EU-listing.

Obviously, this is horrible trying to figure out. What do I do?

(also, with the hope some mod reads this, I managed to send in an edit request for the EU-release of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (PS3) before I saw that my edition had a tiny tiny "game in scandinavian languages" text on the back, so I submitted a new post for that particular edition instead. Thusly, my edit for the EU-post can just be discarded.

Thank you so much in advance!

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General / Re: Intro thread

« on: March 31, 2013, 06:58:42 pm »

Thank you all for the very warm welcome!

I'm quite a busy man, sadly, (who isn't) so there will likely be times I'm absent some days here and there. I think I've come to the conclusion that I'll start adding my collection with minimum amount of information just to get the games up there (and some momentum going) and then I can go back and fill out extra information (unless someone beats me to it) later on.

I would estimate I have somewhere near 1000 complete first prints (which are the only ones I count) and I suspect a whole damn lot of them are dedicated Swedish releases so I'm prepared to list quite a few games from scratch. I'm sure it'll be fun once I get going. : )

Anyway, I'll try figuring out everything myself but chances are you'll get a few more questions from me before everything is said and done!

I like your little Gashlycrumb Tinies avatar. 

Thanks, It's great! Oh, how I wish Tim Burton would go back to his more grim style clearly influenced by Gashly. In my dreams.

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General / Re: Intro thread

« on: March 25, 2013, 06:24:39 pm »

Hello to the both of you!

Many thanks for the reply! Okay, so you want all differences on the covers, and not just the artwork, gotcha!

I've been slowly starting to add games to my collection but many are missing from your database. Could you give me any tips on what is more important to add, information wise, when I want to contribute?

Also, as far as pictures go, I guess its scans or bust? Photographs won't cut it? I have an old scanner somewhere I think, but not sure if it works at all/on win8.

edit: Actually let me add another question as well: If I don't have ALL the information available (barcode number, maybe publisher, date of release, pictures of boxart etc.), should I then refrain from adding a game to the database?

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General / Re: Intro thread

« on: March 25, 2013, 05:43:18 pm »

Hello everyone,

My name is Fredrik (from Sweden) and I just took the decision to try and find another place to list my collection, some years after IGN's alternative went south, and that's how I found this place.

Since I really don't want to misbehave (in accordance to the terms and conditions); If I have some questions about the game database and its entries, where should I ask these questions?

For example: There is one entry of a EU release of Tales Of Vesperia, but it has (french box art) added to the title. My swedish edition has the very same box art and the same goes for the UK release which makes me want to have the database entry changed to NOT say (french box art). If the person who made this entry want to specify that the backside text of their edition is in French, I imagine it is better to add that information in details. As far as I can tell, the cover for ALL European releases are the same!

I'm very aware of the risk that I've missed something obvious and if so I apologize, but if one doesn't ask...!

Anyway, VERY nice to be here, I really hope I can contribute to this. The first three titles from my own collection I searched for didn't appear, so hopefully I can at least be a little helpful!

With Friendly Greetings: Fredrik Strömberg