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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Release Country TLD Master List

« on: May 20, 2025, 10:13:16 pm »

I had to verify, apparently Quebec doesn't actually have a country code TLD, theirs is .quebec which won't work for us. QC is the province abbreviation. If Quebec ever becomes their own country then we can do it.

So far there hasn't been a situation that I'm aware of where a QC TLD could be used. It would potentially only be an option where a Canadian game exists and then Quebec has a different release, probably one of those French imports. I know that we have handled the French imports before but I don't believe that we've had to resort to using a TLD to differentiate it, or even if Quebec ever gets a French import of a title that also gets a general Canadian only version.

Yes I was referring to the day Québec becomes a country, it will use the [QC] TLD. For now, there are no cases where we need to use this TLD (plus it's not a valid TLD yet).

By the way, when this happens, it will somewhat complicate how we use TLDs because we will need to actually remember the specific date when independence was achieved and make sure that all releases before this date uses the [CA] TLD. A [QC] TLD would only make sense to apply to an item that was released AFTER independence. Of course, I doubt we will see many variants specific to Québec anyways, the exact same English/French boxes will likely continue to be used in both Canada and Québec after independence, so a [QC][CA] TLD or perhaps just one of the two could be used for all releases north of the USA. Unless Microsoft does what they used to do in the 2000s and starts releasing NTSC game art for Québec with French ONLY, these releases are listed as [CA] despite being exclusive to Québec and any new release like this would then get the [QC] TLD if released after independence.

Btw this scenario is not just hypothetical, but likely. The Parti Québécois is dominating the polls and if they win, they promised a new referendum before 2029. Support for independence has increased a lot lately, especially with Gen Zs who are now in majority in favor for independence.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Release Country TLD Master List

« on: May 19, 2025, 08:49:03 pm »

@leonefamily it seems like Alberta might beat Quebec to the punch... 

Yeah the whole Alberta thing is laughable. They only started talking about it when the conservatives lost the Canadian elections. They're not serious and if they were, their motive for independence is based solely on politics. Meanwhile our independence is based on 250 years of foreign occupation, it's based on cultural, demographical, historical, economical and linguistic differences. Alberta is not a distinct occupied nation trying to gain back its lost independence, contrary to Québec.

This is however out of topic for this thread, no need to talk further about it here. If you are really interested in Québec independence politics, feel free to ask me in private, I'm a member of various Québec independence groups (except I'm the only one operating abroad, from the Philippines).

Back to TLDs discussion...

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Release Country TLD Master List

« on: May 17, 2025, 09:54:17 pm »

Sounds good to me. I thought we already weren't supposed to use stuff like [NA] or [EU] in our TLDs anyways. For North America, I just leave no TLDs when referring to the default United States, or [CA] for a bilingual release or [CA][MX] for those trilingual releases.

Looking forward to the day we'll finally have the [QC] TLD, when my people decide to finally become an independant country.

Another system that could have been nice is to just have a new field that we can fill to an entry and this field just being flags of countries plus the European Union, with the ability to add more than one flag similar to what Redump does. This could allow to eliminate TLDs from titles.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Error Listings and rejected edits 2024

« on: July 16, 2024, 09:49:31 am »

Done, thanks dhaabi.

Just pointing out that the EBay item can not be proven to be CIB since no barcode is present. Sometimes the barcode can be just a sticker on the seal wrap (which then gets lost when the item is opened) but this is rare and 95% of games without a barcode are just games missing a slipcover. Anyways it can't be proven that a specific release has a "seal wrap sticker barcode" as long as we don't have pictures of a factory sealed copy. And the contrary, games that do have a barcode on the back cover art, doesn't necessarily mean that this game never had a slipcover.

Thanks again.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Error Listings and rejected edits 2024

« on: July 16, 2024, 09:30:16 am »

And to add to my previous post, dhabbi added item number 32587.209.US, which is the item number on the box art under the slipcover. But the slipcover itself has a different item number, as it says "Box part number 32587.491.US".

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Error Listings and rejected edits 2024

« on: July 16, 2024, 09:24:03 am »

I tried to edit item #3526 by updating the front and back box art. I got this rejection note:

Submitted artwork is attempting existing data to change entry's identity. Previous approved submissions reverted or changed. A new entry will need to be submitted if you're wanting to add this specific item. https://www.ebay.com/itm/305594728779

The thing is, I'm updating the images because the current images are of the box without the slipcover. My images were of the slipcover. The EBay listing provided by the admin is just some dude who's trying to pass off an incomplete set as a CIB.

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General / Re: Help me find a (seemingly) lost PS2 game!

« on: January 28, 2024, 10:32:50 pm »

I thought this game had actually released on PS2. I didn't even know it was cancelled. Would explain why I've never happened to see one in the wild. But upon checking on Redump, there is indeed no dump of the PS2 version, so it definitely never got released on PS2.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: LeoneFamily's VGC Database Work

« on: January 10, 2024, 10:27:30 pm »

If there was any other way to distinguish them I would have done it this way. But anyways, just to be safe, I just did a full detailed examination again and I can still confirm that every text is the exact same everywhere. The disc is the exact same too and they have the same manual. The bold/thin font doesn't just apply to the front art, it's also different on the side spine, back art, and even on the back text of the manual.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: LeoneFamily's VGC Database Work

« on: January 08, 2024, 12:35:10 am »

V-Rally Championship Edition (PAL) on the PS1. I have my hands on two copies where everything is the same except the font is slightly different. The left copy has a bolder font than the one on the right. Item #87097 is what would be considered the "Bold" font while we don't have anything in the DB for the "Light" font. Would this be worth making 2 entries named (Bold font) and (Light font) or is the difference too light to separate them?

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

« on: November 24, 2023, 09:16:53 pm »

Let's please create a Xbox One [CN] category. I just picked up the first example I've seen of what would be considered an "Asia" version of an Xbox One game, so I need the appropriate category to list it under.

I'm still waiting on this. Is this getting implemented soon?

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

« on: November 21, 2023, 01:04:52 am »

Let's please create a Xbox One [CN] category. I just picked up the first example I've seen of what would be considered an "Asia" version of an Xbox One game, so I need the appropriate category to list it under.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Why is Metroidvania not a selectable genre?

« on: November 17, 2023, 02:39:25 am »

Because it's a platformer. That category already exists.

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General / Re: Warning!!! (do not toss or sell your OG Xbox Consoles)

« on: October 16, 2023, 05:04:40 am »

I totally agree with this. There's so much we don't know about these systems and we can't blindly believe what big corp tells us because the FBI will always just know about it anyways. I used to be a huge Xbox fanboy to the point I asked my girlfriend to start calling me Xbox because that just felt natural like me being inside my soul! Then one night my girlfriend felt me being inside her soul and she screamed my name, but that turned me on and my Kinect! I was so ashamed that Gates was now watching us because that meant the catholic church was also seeing us! I know she has god in her too but can't it just be me for once? There is no data privacy anymore. I don't want my data to be sold to the Illuminati cults to be used as their Fiverr training videos! But I knew that Gates was behind it all, it wasn't just a situation where I'm the only one behind it. That Kinect technology means he was there with us, and it just happened that on that very same day, I had broken my ATV's muffler from doing too much competitions of "stuff a toad in, press the gas, see how far it goes" with my friends at the Bayou. You don't see the coincidence? Well it happens that the toad was picked on the pond next to the ranch of my friend's dad who turns out be cheating on the wife of the boss of the classmate of the best friend of the dealer of the favorite prostitute of the school's principal who was born on the exact same day as Bill Gates, proving that NASA was responsible all along!! Anyways, I should stop typing all of this because I know that VGcollect mods are going to report me to the feds, I already know too much.

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Off Topic / Re: Is There Any Evidence There Are People Buying To Dispose Retro?

« on: October 16, 2023, 04:32:42 am »

Why would people spend money on stuff just to destroy it for others. That's just ridiculous. Feels like the kind of thing that somebody with a "the entire world is against me" mindset would say.

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General / Re: Warning!!! (do not toss or sell your OG Xbox Consoles)

« on: October 10, 2023, 11:09:10 pm »

 The FBI knows I own a refurbished working OG Original Xbox that can play DVDS with that adopter That came with the sale. So maybe they figure I don't need to play all my OG games. On 360 due to fail-safe

This is 100% it.

I blame Reagan for what we have to endure here.

lol this is so similar to what a crazy lady to who I sold a jailbroken PS3 said to me. "Les policiers ont réinitialisé la jailbreak" (The cops have reset the jailbreak). Uh no, lady, you just got your console CID banned by Sony.