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Z3R04NG and Thanatos_Prime thanks for feedback. Sorry to miss lead you Thanatos_Prime the Game List I posted was actually my Zip file names from my personal collect not how I would place them on the Game Database. I agreed with not using "-" and I do use ":" all the time and multiple disk are always combined together in one title. I guess I was looking at swapping "( )" or "[ ]" if the community start using "(PUBLISHER)" etc but that is just my personal option. 95% of what you have written for examples I have been implementing when entering new games. It is good that I'm at least on the same page with most of it. ? Z3R04NG wasn't trying to offend you with your idea of super moderators and after your explanation makes more sense. It is hard to do the right thing as so many people have different options and the style seems to change with time and different people coming through as moderators. Is there a truly comprehensive naming convention out there that sets that guidelines? If not it would be good as a cheat sheet on the front page for download to help guide us. I will keep entering the new games to the best I know which seems to have been received well with low rejections. After that if the groups wish to use "(PUBLISHER)" in the name title I will leave this to the moderators and not make any back changes when I see this. The main thing for me is to get all those games not listed on to the C64 platform with as much media that I can find. Minor tweaks can be made as we move along. Keep up the great work everyone. This is growing in to one of the biggest one stop shop for all your game info and media holdings on the web.

Hi First I'm not a moderator, I only concentrate on entering more games into the database. First time writing on the forum as I have been madly entering C64 games for the past 2 1/2 years with 75,000 submitted changes with 545 rejected changes. I have been waiting for this conversion to come up and seek some clarification around naming conventions for duplicate titled games. Seems like the community is divided when it comes to handling this issue. A year and a half ago I started entering duplicate games with TITLE (PUBLISHER) etc and was rejected every time on the changes. Since then it seems that the ball park has changed and now it is accepted by a few to have (XXX) after the title. Personally I think it is messy and not true to the title name however I see the issues around duplicate games. Having super moderators seems like a narrow approach to the issues as the community needs to have input into this issue. Maybe voting and if the community decides how to handle this then we all adopt the approach. Personally if we all decide to have (XXXX) after the game titles I would prefer to see [XXXX] which has the same effect because I think some game titles have brackets () in them at release and this would separate the two areas. Jordan vs Bird - One On One [Disk 1 of 2] Jordan vs Bird - One On One [Disk 2 of 2] Journey [CRL] Journey [Keypunch] Jet-Boys [E] Jet-Boys [US] Jet [1985] [Disk 1 of 2] Jet [1986] [Disk 1 of 2] Jaws [Box Office] [Disk 1 of 2] Jaws [Box Office] [Disk 2 of 2] Working with media filenames you can also place the game ID after the art work filename which separates the two game titles and links perfectly to the correct game with no issues. Sonic Boom.15565ba2-0e8c-410a-b56e-794925260f81-01 Sonic Boom.a8045be5-bde9-4483-ae3e-624b3c20e2f4-01 I will stop changing the (XXXX) games and get back to entering the C64 games in. Up to "S" at present and this letter has a lot of games. Hopefully there will be some resolution. Thanks everybody.

Working perfect! Great job. Glad to help where I can. Not sure if you are the right person to ask but: I have been entering a lot of C64 games into the database recently and several games have the same name but completely different games example: Aftermath - https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/86717 and Aftermath - https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/86718 Just had a though. Will this confuse LaunchBox when users do an Import of ROM files when it's trying to determine which game title is which? Likewise if users already have the game in their collection and wish to Edit and import more multimedia. Some other users have placed Software companies in brackets in the game title example: Aftermath (Alternative Software). Personally I think this is messy. So my multimedia doesn't get confused I have attached the game code number after the file name eg. Aftermath.53ca2ffd-6413-43ef-a68c-62d7703ff946-01 and Aftermath.b4b780a6-f2d1-44d3-b7e9-9508ec225f39-01 for multimedia files respectively which works well. I have been uploading the files in the Games Databases the same way to help other users. I'm only up to "A" in the C64 games list and working through to "Z" (probably year 2020 joke :-) ). I'm I creating a problem doing it this way or is there a better way to handle duplicate game titles. Just want to make sure before I continue to far and wreck a great system. Great work all at LaunchBox.

Seems to be hit and miss on the page (game title) and not just Commodore 64 but other consoles / computers as well. Got a friend on another computer to try to see if it was my computer but they had the same problems. Listed is just one page with this problem: https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/81692 But this page works fine: https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/41679 Not sure whats happening. Thanks

Have been adding C64 game titles to the LaunchBox Game Database which seem to be going fine until today. When accessing the some of the game information that I entered previously and the moderators approved this error appears. Any idea? Server Error in '/' Application. Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine. Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off". Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.

Thanks Guys, I will give this a go!

Hi Been trying to sort out the multiple same name games using all the same artwork for a while but not having luck. Best example I can use is Commodore 64 platform has more then five games titled "Alien" of which all are from different publishers. I have filed each game as example "Alien [Angus Press].zip", "Alien [HP Books].zip" etc as obviously windows explorer can't have same file names. My issue is I also have taken the same approach for my artwork for the same windows problem and keeps good track of which art is for which game. My problem is that when Launchbox adds the games it has the ability to have same game names in the platform list but it also adds all "Alien" artwork to all "Alien" titles listed in that platform due to it ignoring the [ ] or () around the (in this case) publishers name. I have gone into edit and remove the incorrect art work from the game but upon pressing close the wrong artwork returns again. Simply put I have five "Alien" screenshots from all other games with the same name that shouldn't be there. Is there any other way to get around this short of having the game title listed in Launchbox as "Alien - Anges Press" which removes the problem of the publisher name being inside the brackets? Any help would be great. Thanks

Hi Been trying to sort out the multiple same name games using all the same artwork for a while but not having luck. Best example I can use is Commodore 64 platform has more then five games titled "Alien" of which all are from different publishers. I have filed each game as example "Alien [Angus Press].zip", "Alien [HP Books].zip" etc as obviously windows explorer can't have same file names. My issue is I also have taken the same approach for my artwork for the same windows problem and keeps good track of which art is for which game. My problem is that when Launchbox adds the games it has the ability to have same game names in the platform list but it also adds all "Alien" artwork to all "Alien" titles listed in that platform due to it ignoring the [ ] or () around the (in this case) publishers name. I have gone into edit and remove the incorrect art work from the game but upon pressing close the wrong artwork returns again. Simply put I have five "Alien" screenshots from all other games with the same name that shouldn't be there. Is there any other way to get around this short of having the game title listed in Launchbox as "Alien - Anges Press" which removes the problem of the publisher name being inside the brackets? Any help would be great. Thanks