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Hi guys, Whoa, this blew up. Valid point there. Malware would be bad. There's a bunch of ways to remedy that, but I agree with @FistyDollars. Feels odd to have savegames in a game information database. Although, yet again, this is a games information database at the moment, that doesn't mean that it can't be much more. It's an idea to kick around :). To make our lives easier, please move this conversation to the development thread in the features subform. We'll be able to group up most ideas there:).

Hi Guys, I'll start going through the mega-thread today and applying the changes to the database. If there's been any changes to the images, please change/sbumit them there, or else I'll have to fix the backgrounds for them again ;). Thanks everyone :).

Yup. If you're ever wondering about what's happening with the DB, check the dev thread in the DB features forums :).

Hi Zombeaver, Aye, everything will look fine on the DB side. That's part of the fix. Basically, if you notice corruption or weirdness on the LB side, just look up that game on the DB and send it in for moderation. Sadly, i can't fix it on my end without removing all the formatting from most fields on the database, so this is the simplest way to fix it without just making everything look ugly. The good news is that eventually all of it will be removed organically as people use the database.

Real quick, just so everyone gets it, corrupt characters are... well, corrupt. Currently, they're going to cause some weirdness. If you see any, make sure to go and submit a change request for that game. (even if it's empty, the system will notice the corruption and fix it.) Thanks!

Hi guys, a fix has been implemented for this yesterday. The corrupt data will filter itself out as people submit change requests to the impacted games. At least, I hope. If, after editing a db entry, having it go through moderation, updating the DB xml file in launchbox, it still happens, let me know!

Hiya Beatlemaniac, Thanks for the idea! It's not that nutty of an idea :). Currently, I've got a lot of stuff on my plate, but we could potentially do something like that eventually. I'll need to run it by Jason, and it should probably go on the issue tracker for the rrst of the community to vote on, but yeah. It wouldn't be that difficult to do. It'd just take a while to get a list of all extension types (as I can't open up the site to all filetypes), and then we'd need to check out bandwith and filesizes and etc, but it's not impossible. Please add this to the DB issue tracker, ill update it there :).

So. Currently fixing the bloody crashes that have been happening randomly (see https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/issues/145/confirmed-server-error-in-application ) Here's the thing. We have a lot of corrupt data in the database. It's nothing major, as the fix I'm implementing will remove it whenever someone sends a change request to an impacted game, but the issue is as follows- It'll send the correction as a change request, which needs to go through moderation. Sadly, due to the limitations of text processing (and the fact that I don't have a supercomputer to do the text analysis required), I won't know if the fact that there are four linebreaks in a row, all encoded differently, was intentional. Or if there's a bunch of ampersands, all encoded differently, was intentional. So, all i'm doing now is correcting their encoding so they don't break anything and work with the rest of the database's systems, but it may cause some edits to look odd. I was thinking of adding a header to the change that says something like "[AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED CHANGE - PLEASE ALLOW]". We'd still need to remove that afterwards, but it'd help mods notice that "Oh yeah, the fact that these two paragraphs are separated by fifteen linebreaks is normal. We'll just need to fix it afterwards." EDIT: Actually, nevermind. It's obvious in the edit screens what's happening, everyone will see it. Here's a screenshot. Edit2: Online now. I've ran it through a bunch of problematic entries, and it seems to work well. Lemme know if it doesn't :).

Hi Guys, I've been sent from DB land to headhunt someone to give a hand to In Virtue Dei, but I see he's already posted above. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated :). We're trying to fill in the holes in the platform images, so this would go to a good cause

Thanks! Jason and I are working pretty hard to push it into Beta as fast as possible. We also think its the best database ;).

Roman numerals should already be parsed as numbers by the search functions on the website. If they arent being scraped that way from within LaunchBox, that's something we'll look into once we add alternate name scraping for it as well :). (I'll have to fix both the "add new game" and generic website search to parse through alternate names as well, but that shouldn't be too difficult.) As for the space thing, it's difficult to make them smaller, unless I were to list then in a text box in the same manner as genres/developers and then popup a window (see the "add new image" window) to allow editing them. Lemme know what you think :). P.s. might be better served bringing this discussion into the stickied development thread in the features section.

@In virtute Dei - Aye, it's perfect. The platform images are great as well, we need those more than anything as the database looks quite empty without them. (although the metadata itself is also awesome ) I'll look into uploading all of it in a little bit. I've got a few things on my plate, but this is up there too :). Thanks again! Muchly appreciated!

Morning guys, So, quick update- fixed https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/issues/170/bug-multiple-images-section-in-new-game I'm currently looking into making the details page look a bit better. Once i'm done with that, i'm either jumping on the encoding issue that's causing all the random crashes or fixing the extremely slow moderation speeds. Let you know once i'm there :). @Cebion - Thanks! We're doing our best :). To be fair, I'm not a webdev guy, so this is taking a bit longer than it should, but I'm glad to be of help :). Edit: Introduced another error while fixing the above bug. Already fixed, will be pushed up shortly, as well as fixing the aesthetics of the details page.

Hi Glaymore, We've been having all sorts of encoding issues as of late. Fixing that is on my todo list, no worries :).

Jakatsu - Should be fixed now. Cebion - I'll get to the details page in the morning, as soon as I've had a few coffees :).

I lied. Last quick fix is being uploaded now. The moderation view will now show the impacted game, like any other change request. Enjoy :).

Just found an issue as I was looking for an example of a game alternate name moderation request. Please don't select the "Year Only" checkbox and then add a date with special characters in the text field below. The server won't like it, and it'll crash the moderation pages with a 500 internal server error. I'll filter most of them out from now on, but it's still good practice not to do it :). In any case, i'll fix it in a few minutes, but aye. Special characters are bad. If you fall on this entry, it won't go past moderation until I get to it. Edit: Fixed now. But ugh Edit 2: Going to go to sleep now, I'll get back on this stuff in the morning working on the comments made on the announcement board. Be aware, we're encountering some instability due to some characters being encoded somewhere and causing problems with our form validation and crashing everything. It's something I'm looking into as well, so, if you encounter a 500 internal server error, please report it to the bug tracker with as many details as possible :).

Hi Fisty, I'll look into that right away. I'm thinking it's just a listing issue, shouldn't actually affect anything other than display right now, although I don't like seeing that o.O, thanks for the catch EDIT: @FistyDollars - Fixed now. Lemme know how it looks :).

Sorry guys, had to go out for a bit. Anyways, @Jakatsu, Good catch! Thought I'd seen to that before deploying it. Apparently not :P. I'll add that to my todo list. @SentaiBrad - Completely agree with you there :). EDIT: As for japanese characters, it's not impossible, but it wouldn't be the most awesome thing to code for ;). Using Romanji names would be preferable at the moment.

Correct

We're throwing ideas around at the moment, but the tentative guideline will be US/Europe/Asia/World. So, add the US name, if it doesn't exist, europe, and so on.

@Cebion - Thanks for the feedback :). That was bugging me as well. There's currently a numeral identifying linked entries to compensate, but it's a tad bit ugly. I'll get the details page looking like the add new game page shortly.

Hi Guys, This will serve as the alter-ego to the LaunchBox Beta Testing thread. Please let us know if anything doesn't work as advertised, or anything needs revamping a bit :). I'll post most of the new developments here so as to not flood the forums with updates. Thanks! ########## Useful Links: Console Metadata Thread LB Beta Testing (6.8+) Thread Chrome Extension - DB Search Thread Firefox Addon - DB Search Thread

Hi guys, Alternate titles are now online. Here's a quick 101: - You may add any amount of alternate titles to any game, either through the "Add New Game" page or the "Details" page. Please note, you are restricted to adding one name at a time through the details page for the moment. - Names do not necessarily require regions assigned to them, but we encourage you to use them :). - To delete a name, simply erase the textbox and send it in for moderation. Now, have fun, and lemme know how it works :).

Hiya, Aye, I pointed you here as we don't currently have consoles open for modification, but we really need help filling them out! Any info you can provide will be greatly appreciated :).