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3 minutes ago, SentaiBrad said:

It doesn't matter how it looks on the box, but what Nintendo called it in print, and they titled it with Super Mario Advance first. That's usually not something that gets debated, because it's a fairly closed discussion honestly. We also do have Alternate Names in place on the database. Also, you are right, accuracy is certainly important, but our Database serves LaunchBox as the end goal, and no amount of alternate names can make Windows display certain characters, so Ranma 1/2 for example, gets 1/2 spelt out like that instead of a superscript 1/2. 

Nintendo seems to prefer calling it "Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3". It refers to the Wii version but it's the same game.

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2 hours ago, SentaiBrad said:

I generally prefer to keep to what's on the box, and then based-ish off the No-Intro set myself. With - taking the place of : in Windows because it has to. There is also an accurate way to spell something and in what order according to the Developers. I believe in the Mario Bros 2 case, Super Mario Advance 3 comes before the unique titles to denote that it's apart of the Mario Advance Series. So it's not exactly the easiest thing, what's on the box is generally what to go by, but sometimes it's written on the box differently than what the developer does with it, and No-Intro may have something different as well. The only reason I like it close to the No-Intro style is for scraping. Those are the sets we recommend the most for ease of use, so It would stand to reason that a lot of users use them. However, what ever the box / developer says still takes precedent in the long run. Scrapability needs to be number 1 priority, and LaunchBox, for the most part, ignores - and : for a reason.

I would think if you wanted this to be a database for games, the priority would be preserving data as is and not based it on scrapability. I do understand the need to be able to scrap titles but couldn't this be done with additional fields? Couldn't the No-Intro data be Incorporated into the game data base? Same with EmuMovies, have a way to save there titles into the database for better matching.

 

As for Super Mario Advance 3, I find it hard to believe that they really wanted it called "Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island". All indications point to them wanting "Yoshi's Island" as the main title, and lesser importance to the series name "Super Mario Advance 3", You can check out the images from the database and on MobyGames.

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Hello everyone,

Just trying to see if it's worth editing in the database. I've submitted a few edits to see how well it goes. Not sure how I like the anonymous thing. Makes it hard to keep track of problem mods. But with enough active mods, guess this shouldn't be a problem? I'm use to editing being open, MusicBrainz.

 

Just wanted to as a few questions.

1) How do you guys like to handle subtitles?

Example: Tomb Raider: The Prophecy

Would you guys like...

All colons (MusicBrainz style): Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Prophecy

Colon and Dash (this is what I submitted): Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Prophecy

Colon and Parenthesis (don't think you guys would like this): Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (The Prophecy)

 

2) How would you guys like to handle series naming and naming in general (altered is OK or as is):

Example: Super Mario Advance

Currently, it's what I call series friendly. 3rd in series has been switched around and the 1st has added text not in the title. But all conform to a series format for easy sorting.

or do you guys prefer as is (my preference):

"Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island" becomes "Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3"

"Super Mario Advance: Super Mario Bros. 2" becomes "Super Mario Advance"

Thanks in advance 

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5 minutes ago, SentaiBrad said:

 

Thanks, just what I was looking for.

 

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Is there some sort of style guide I can take a look at on how to format titles?

Also, is there a way to add links/notes to submissions to help moderators?