Tomb Raider: Legend - PSP [EU]
http://vgcollect.com/item/42680 <- complete & correct data/images
http://vgcollect.com/item/57928 <- dupe? Do we keep games with Pegi & USK ratings separated? Anyway, this image is bogus
because the PSP version has a Pegi-16 rating.
When the game was released it had a Pegi 12 rating (on any platform as we can see on the cover for PS2, PC, or Xbox), the game got a Pegi 16 rating between the first release of the game and the second version (Psp Essentials, Platinum, ect...) so the cover is original.
But i would really like to know if we keep more than one entry of the more recent games just because they have a different rating or they have something different on the cover (like we keep any old games because of some differences like the four US version of Super Mario Bros. 3 on Nes), i still have more than 2000 items to add and i wouldn't like to see them being erased after scanning them all (and i don't mind having the wrong cover when the only different thing is the rating or some small unreadable tag).
Keep the different versions.
1. It doesn't hurt anything
2. You don't have to use them
3. People collect different releases/variations and deserve to have the ability to track them separately.
You can find that Tomb Raider game with same front on Ebay.co.uk. It exists as shown with that picture.
That's exactly what i think too but seeing more and more people report them as duplicate (and being merged together with the "original") i start to question myself, many items in my collection are different from the ones in the database (and i don't even talk about the back cover otherwise many more item would be different because almost all my items have a french backcover) i don't feel it worth to scan my collection if they are going to be erased afterwards.
I think it's important to recognize that the items in your collection don't match what someone else would have in their collection, even if it's a minor difference.
For instance, I'm going to create a record (with my own scans) for PaRappa the Rapper on PSP as I received a Canadian copy for Christmas. We have a NA version already in the database, but the extra French on the front and back cover is enough for me to want to have a separate item record. I think the admin are good about not merging/deleting items if it's clear that there's a variation. If anything, I'll make sure to include in the title that it's the Canada-specific NA version.
I haven't run into any situations that I know of where something I created was deleted/merged incorrectly, but sometimes I'll keep my scans stored on a cloud server somewhere just in case anything happens. We're all human, after all
