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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: nintendo ds and 3ds demos

« on: April 30, 2026, 09:32:58 am »

your literrly asking for verry specific information that is IMPOSSIBLE to get  all we know about thsoe demos is that they where used in kiosks in eu countries  was nintednogs in an kiosk in polland for example? maybe but no way to find out.

We put information in that is confirmed. If we don't know, or it can't be proven, then we leave that out. We can always add information later, and it is best to not presume information in the case we are wrong.

Real world example:
Mario Tennis Open demo being sold in Spain has a cart item number of LNZ-CTR-AGAP-EUR and a back number of AGAP52041B
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/317211178810
Mario Tennis Open demo being sold in England has a cart item number of LNZ-CTR-AGAP-EUR and a back number of AGAP52041B (the same)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266708249037

Can we presume that the cart sold in England is from England and the cart sold in Spain is from Spain? Yes
Can we prove that? No
Can we presume that all carts in EU have the same 2 numbers? Yes
Can we prove that carts from other countries in EU have the same 2 numbers? No

So we put the information that we know for sure. We know this cart with these 2 numbers are from Europe.
The item number is the number from the cart label like usual. Put the back number in description.

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News / Re: Site Status / Crash recovery information and planning

« on: April 25, 2026, 09:05:08 am »

I really wonder how this list is compiled, as I updated around a little above 400 front images since we were invited to do so, as I am sure others did, yet won’t see my nick here. Not that I care really much, but it confuses me, as I assume you collect these stats from the same DB that is able to list users’ validated edits.

This data is from a pivot table on the spreadsheet.

The worker column was originally intended to just mark an entry with a name so that other DB staff who use the sheet know that an entry is being looked at and not to duplicate effort. I later added other users to there just to indicate if someone else had changed the art before we got that entry. Not that we need to give attribution in an internal tool like that, but it may have been helpful if we ever needed to revisit something. One day I just wondered how many I had done and made the pivot table, and it just counts everyone.

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News / Re: Site Status / Crash recovery information and planning

« on: April 23, 2026, 10:50:30 pm »

I need to work on that again.

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News / Re: Advanced Style Guide update and feedback thread

« on: April 21, 2026, 09:50:08 am »

I understand that—I didn't mean to imply that the common name rule should be overwritten in these scenarios. I've merely provided examples of how letters and symbols may be substituted for numbers.

However, the common name rule does not dictate entry name formatting as you've said. With that understanding, the final four examples I provided in my previous post—MDK, NG, SSX, and XCOM: Enemy Within—feature title acronyms that are either only known with supplemental in-game information (that you've said we should ignore) or have no data information at all and are merely formatted as such as a stylistic choice. So, should those entry names remain in all uppercase, or should they instead be formatted to title case?

MDK and NG are acronyms, so they are fine. SSX is common to be represented that way.

XCOM is a different story since it is common to see it as Xcom. X-COM and X-Com. But searching for XCOM shows that it is overwhelmingly represented all capitalized, especially on Wikipedia. So we should keep it like that also.

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News / Re: Advanced Style Guide update and feedback thread

« on: April 20, 2026, 11:25:39 am »

Common Name rule stands on this, then we have our exceptions: symbols or our own naming choices... which I believe covers the Resident Evil VII example.

But the version of the name with the actual words can be put into alt-name.

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News / Re: Advanced Style Guide update and feedback thread

« on: April 18, 2026, 10:28:49 am »

I'm sure there are other examples and I'd want to compare those first. I don't know whether those are using numbers like that or not. But if so, then the "word" they are supposed to represent should be in the alt name.

Not that we need to be concerned with game content for the purposes of our entries, but an LP of the game indicates D1AL-ogue is a named location within the game, named in the opening cut-scene.
https://youtu.be/VAh8nNSJLN4?si=6jldAmYD0TEglmCi&t=75

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: nintendo ds and 3ds demos

« on: April 13, 2026, 10:38:15 am »

In a category like Demos, you can do it as

[US] and [EU]
but not
(US) and (EU)

but only to differntiate two entries.

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Video Game Auction Watch / Re: My eBay Game Collection SALE

« on: April 01, 2026, 10:06:40 am »

Market section is for users of the site.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Category/Platform Requests 2.0

« on: March 28, 2026, 09:37:15 am »

Merchandise, Miscellaneous

Hi all,

I hope this post finds you well.

I wanted to confirm the most suitable category for "Conker's Little Black Book"?

Vgprintads on Tumblr has scans: https://vgprintads.tumblr.com/post/52998827818/conkers-bad-fur-day-promotional-booklet/amp

Thank you.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Category/Platform Requests 2.0

« on: March 27, 2026, 09:59:23 am »

These are not consoles, they require a PC to use.

Net Jet "System" itself and the skin would be considered PC Accessory
the Net Jet cartridges would be PC Games
thus the Net Jet System packaged would be an "accessory with a game" and should be named as such. The same would apply to Konami Live items.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2026!!!

« on: March 27, 2026, 09:49:48 am »

I'm allowed to start late

green games are games that have been beaten/endless in 2025
blue games are in progress.
standard games are games I am not currently trying to beat or have been beat in previous years.
red games are games that have been abandoned.

1. Major League Manager (PC)
2. Dropsum 2.0 (browser)
3. Diablo III (PC)
4. Civilization V (PC)
5. Mincraft [Nomifactory, Mechanical Mastery] (PC)
6. Skyrim LE (PC)
7. Fortnite (PC)

Totals
played: 7
beaten: 0
abandoned: 0
demo: 0

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Off Topic / Re: The best and worst concert you've ever attended?

« on: March 20, 2026, 10:58:54 am »

This is impossible for me to answer. I've been to and worked so many concerts that any "worst" is going to be something I can't remember. If we're strictly talking about music quality well... I used to run open mics so there were a lot of "bad" shows in there.

As far as best concerts... it used to be about the quality of the music or presentation. Over the past 8 months or so I've actually been trying to keep a 10 top for the year. When I did it for last year, I had shifted my ranking to be based on meaningful interactions rather than anything the bands usually did. Whether that mean meeting or seeing certain people, conversations or an amount of interesting occurances, those particular shows get a higher rank even over shows where the music and presentation was top tier. So I guess I now am looking at the little things regarding the experience. If I were to think back to the olden times where my "best" list was based on the shows themselves, everything would end up being re-arranged significantly.

Like for last year, my top show was not actually my most favorite, but was one in which I had the most meaningful interactions with other people. Limiting my top list to 5 based on that criteria really makes for a difficult time when I have to weigh what is and isn't as important and sometimes it is only revealed later that a particular interaction or memory had a greater impact that initially thought.

To put this into perspective, I only went to 2 shows between 2011 and 2024 that I can remember. One was a local cover band and the other was Iron Maiden. Starting in June 2025, I got back into the scene and in 2025 I had seen 56 shows. So far in 2026 I've been to 35 shows not counting the one I got to after the first band stopped and left before the second band set up. I'm told that one shouldn't count xD

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Error Listings and Rejected Edits 2026

« on: March 19, 2026, 10:35:58 am »

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?

There are other sites where the actual game art is only in the thumbnail, on a list rather than on the game entry page itself. It is one of the PC Digital Download related sites, I can't remember at this moment.
For that particular entry, I would opt for the square image that was submitted rather than the rectangle one. Not just because of what I already said, but that rectangle image on the site just looks like one of the screenshots.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Error Listings and Rejected Edits 2026

« on: March 16, 2026, 01:00:35 pm »

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.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: nintendo ds and 3ds demos

« on: March 07, 2026, 11:02:20 am »

The TLD is something we use to indicate what country or region an item is released in. It is used when there are multiple items in a category that have the same name, we add a TLD to make it so they have different names. If you do not know what TLD to use or if you should use one, you can just ask.