Duplicate List 2024

[coffeejits]

The following are duplicate entries for Fox's MASH:

https://vgcollect.com/item/70094
https://vgcollect.com/item/12780

The following are duplicates for Activision's SeaQuest:

https://vgcollect.com/item/144752 (Sea Quest)
https://vgcollect.com/item/11657 (Seaquest)

[volcanohead]

https://vgcollect.com/item/109042

https://vgcollect.com/item/82256

[spectre51]

Darksiders: Warmastered Edition - Epic

https://www.vgcollect.com/item/244119
https://www.vgcollect.com/item/256509

[coffeejits]

Accidentally added the duplicate entries for Gosub 2

https://vgcollect.com/item/271122
https://vgcollect.com/item/271123

[smesgr]

https://vgcollect.com/item/136806
https://vgcollect.com/item/86945

general all the entries are inconsistent if "Forgotten Realms" is part of the title or not

[dhaabi]

https://vgcollect.com/item/136806
https://vgcollect.com/item/86945

general all the entries are inconsistent if "Forgotten Realms" is part of the title or not

Based on the common name rule, the correct entry name for this item should be Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark. Here is its GameFAQs entry page.

[coffeejits]

The following entry, https://vgcollect.com/item/15577, was the sole entry for Sear's Maze cartridge for the Atari 2600 [N/A], and the database entry only contains the front cover art image and has very little additional identifying information.  Currently 44 users have this title in their collection.

I recently added https://vgcollect.com/item/271801 to the database which is the "picture label" version of this game (there are two "text label" versions as well).  Upon researching this title, it became obvious that the picture label version of this game is, by far, the most common version of this game.  Thus, in my opinion, these two entries are the same.  Should these two items be merged?  More information needed?   

[dhaabi]

The following entry, https://vgcollect.com/item/15577, was the sole entry for Sear's Maze cartridge for the Atari 2600 [N/A], and the database entry only contains the front cover art image and has very little additional identifying information.  Currently 44 users have this title in their collection.

I recently added https://vgcollect.com/item/271801 to the database which is the "picture label" version of this game (there are two "text label" versions as well).  Upon researching this title, it became obvious that the picture label version of this game is, by far, the most common version of this game.  Thus, in my opinion, these two entries are the same.  Should these two items be merged?  More information needed?

271801 has been merged into 15577. These are my observations:

1) 49-75112 and 6-99825 as Item Number field information is formatted incorrectly. If you look at both spines, no hyphen is present. Instead, the correct formatting is 4975112 and 699825. Information should not be taken blindly from other database sources without verifying it yourself.

2) As I've mentioned to you in private, we should prioritize outer packaging differences before cartridges differences. For that reason, 15577 has been updated to Maze (4975112), and 271815 has been updated to Maze (699825). As you'll see in each of those entry's Description fields, details can be added to clarify the cartridge type.

3) If you are serious about adding an entire category's worth of variants, it comes highly suggested to clean the category beforehand. This means fact-checking each existing entry prior to adding anything new: ensuring entry art is correct, updating entry names, correcting item numbers, and fixing any other general errors or reporting them to staff. At the very least, cleaning up each existing entry by game before adding its variants. While it's a lot of upfront work, it ultimately makes things easier.

[coffeejits]

The following entry (Pole Position II) was never released for the Atari 2600 NA]:

https://www.vgcollect.com/item/12786 (this entry has the cart image from the Atari 7800 version)


But it was released for the Atari 7800 [NA] which already has a database entry here:

https://www.vgcollect.com/item/12786

[dhaabi]

The following entry (Pole Position II) was never released for the Atari 2600 NA]:

https://www.vgcollect.com/item/12786 (this entry has the cart image from the Atari 7800 version)


But it was released for the Atari 7800 [NA] which already has a database entry here:

https://www.vgcollect.com/item/12786

Both links are for the same entry. Nevertheless, 17900 has been merged into 12786.

[coffeejits]

Battlezone was a PAL only release in a red box for the Atari 2600 [EU].  Thus the Atari 2600 [NA] entry is a duplicate of the current Atari 2600 [EU] database entry:

https://vgcollect.com/item/57582  (Atari 2600 [NA] entry)

https://vgcollect.com/item/163602 (Atari 2600 [EU] entry)