Thanatos_Prime

There are thousands, if not tens of thousands of games missing data. So very many things to do with the time given us, be a good steward of the time you've been given. Remember, if it is already in the DB, it has been moderated by at least 3 people in the past and approved. I'm not saying there might not be "smut" buried in there somewhere, and possibly some things that came in before Jason made his will fully clear that still need to be cleaned out, but pick your targets.

This is saddening and somewhat ridiculous. From my perspective, I guess it would depend on the bare buttocks, but what was indicated previously was showing a man's penis, a woman's bare breasts or vagina...actual nudity. Someone in a swimsuit should be fine. If the graphic has a clear bikini top and you can completely see the areola, that probably counts as nudity. A bare, swimsuit-less butt is possibly over the line, I guess it would depend on how it was presented. That kind of thing can be handled somewhat modestly. That said, you seem to be wanting a dev response, but here is mine. This is a pretty divisive issue and has lost us some moderators in the past, I hope we don't have a rash of prudish deletes coming our way. I realize that this is a DB run by a man of faith and I respect that, but video games embrace a lot of different mindsets and mentalities and I hope we can give those with other opinions on this matter a space in the DB to fully enjoy Launchbox as well.

Requests here are probably not going to be much help. Though if we are throwing coins in a fountain I would wish to add Poland as well.

I got one answer and that is this: https://www.imagesmaller.com/ Thank you for your time and consideration, everyone.

To be clear the tool I need is a compression tool that will make the disk-size smaller while keeping the image size exactly the same. I don't believe Fotosizer does that...unless I'm missing an option somewhere. I want to reduce megabytes.

My first thought was to report this to the bitbucket site, but it really is just a website issue and not an application issue. Is it @C-Beats or @faeran that deal with the website side issues?

My deepest apologies, I am in the wrong. I see the alt name addition of Fire Emblem Musou Fuuka Setsugetsu with No Reason Provided and obviously done as a single change.

We've had an individual or two doing some great work in the DB going through and using lossless image compression to replace a lot of overly large files with lossless versions that are significantly smaller in drive size. I've tried looking for good tools for this. All of them either seem to NOT really give lossless results, want to optimize the files in other ways including automatically making the images smaller in resolution\image-size or actually being a trial that will expire in two weeks and then they want you to fork over some cash. What I want is something that will install on windows, it can be command line but if it requires having to install Linux or python subsystems I really won't ever do it. I'd rather it be GUI, I'll me much more likely to use it if it is. Ideally it would be free for long term use. It could also be browser based, but every one I have tried there has been a big let down on larger files. Whatever I use MUST retain the image resolution and size. I don't want to join the resolution ratio argument in any way. Any help or recommendations would be very welcome. Thank you in advance!

Sorry about the very late response on this, I would like to point out that alt names reasons are not really broken. It is just that name changes must be done independently for moderators to see the reason you are giving. If you edit multiple things at the same time it will show up with the other changes. So if you want to change the name, the alt name and add an a bunch of other data to the game you should first, just change the name or alt name and give a reason, then the other name and give a reason and then all the other changes. Otherwise the info will show up in what will be the last thing, which is the other changes to the game. That said, if you *just* change the alt name and give a reason I do believe the moderators will see the reason given.

I would not, it will cause and has previously caused confusion and strife. If the game was ever released commercially during the normal lifespan of the platform (so a commercial 2020 release of a Vic-20 game is still Homebrew, because Vic-20 stopped being relevant in the 80's or so) this should be marked at Released and show the publisher. You could add a note to the text of the game saying on such and such a day this game was released to public domain, but that won't stop explosive reactions in my opinion, though I certainly would love to hear what others think on the subject.

No, this is often correct. Many, many games were released as freeware aka public domain games, you will especially see this in the 8bit to 16bit era. There were even tons of public domain games gathered up and distributed on disks\CD to spread them prior to the internet, often for a very nominal fee to cover the media and a bit of time for the person making the compilation. Unlike shareware or licenseware which we tend to count as "released" these are often homebrew games that the owners made simply to have gone through the learning process of making a game and gave them away to the community to get feedback, praise and often some tips on how to make the game better from other hobbiest coders. Even some released games were given over to the public domain after they were no longer selling by the authors, in some cases with source code so that other up and coming coders could learn from the game, or even modify it and change it into a whole new game. The Amiga and C64 games we are seeing a bunch of right now are generally correct. The thorny bit is if they were FIRST released commercially and LATER made public domain by the authors. I believe it should be set as Released in this case and put the original publishers even if self published. However some sites like Amiga's Lemon and Hall of Light will only list the final status (because they will link to PD but not copyrighted games), so there may be more things labeled Public Domain in our DB than there should be, simply because of a limited amount of info on them. So if you see something entered as PD and someone else is changing it, both were working from the best info they had at the time of the entry and cut them some slack.

Try your best, things get into the DB that shouldn't be there, or should be marked Fan Art. The nice thing to remember is that the DB is infinitely fixable and will be fixed. If you have the time and the inclination, fix what you can. You are right to reject what you cannot find, but be persistent. Use not just the normal websites ( https://www.theworldofcdi.com is a good one in this case) but try reverse image searches, which can often show if the disks are Fan Art creations. But accept you can't fix everything that people mess up. Slowness can be an indication of many things. Some entries take longer than others, full game entries longer than simple image replacements or additions. If there are a lot of new entries coming in, moderations can take longer. My last few moderations took only about 5-6 seconds each, but earlier it was taking longer. Things are also usually much slower when an update is about to come out. Though it is true, we are probably getting to the point where the old changes should be purged from changes status. We got a tremendous speed boost last time that was done.

A search of the database shows that Crysis 2 Remastered hadn't yet been entered into the database, so I am doing that now. Likely the Final Fantasy remakes naming caused it to match the previous games. You can check and see here: https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/#s

I don't have a PS5 but I added Sony Playstation 5 as a platform, and gave it a random emulator, I then created a bogus BugSnax.rom file in the games folder that was created for it and imported it. It imported the game into my collection and got all the pertinent art.

It is in the DB: https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/27063 No preceding or trailing space in the DB name, check your ROM name. You can also try with the alt name Global Champion.

Holy carp is that cool!

It already does. https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/platforms/games/219 It only has about 15 games in it, so you've got some work to do!

I just wanted to check back and give some additional thanks. I had a few requests several months ago and in addition to helping me create some difficult clear logos, you took the time to get me links to a couple of web resources that made me much more self sufficient. Both What the Font ( https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ ) and remove background ( https://www.remove.bg/upload ) have become tools I use daily and I've created a couple hundred clear logos using them, elbow grease and a liberal helping of GIMP. Thank you for helping teach a man to fish, I really appreciate it.

The degree symbol is not the same as superscript numbers. If it does change for those, I would expect to see a change to the game creation rules.

Glad you've got your head screwed on straight, now, Lugnut. Glad to know we won't see more of those.

Thank you for you work and especially for the extra detail, that might make it so I can bug you less often! Bookmarked that page!

Here is one that has flummoxed me a bit. I can't figure out how to remove the glow effect without messing up the lettering. I'm hoping you can work some magic.

Thank you very much!