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I am cool with any help that others want to help with. My goal is to do enough of these to spur interest to finally get the database admins to make the polishing changes. Again worse case is they don't update the game database with these changes, but they will be available for others that want that data and don't want to dig for the research on all of the platforms. The best way to help is to keep the encouragement coming and offering suggestions on my submissions. Additionally helping supply field data like Graphics/Sound/etc. saves researching. I already have a ton of images I have modified into pngs, so no need to re-invent that wheel if you don't have the best tools or knowledge. Thanks!

Title: VTech CreatiVision Scrape As: VTech CreatiVision Release Date: 12/31/1981 Developer: VTech Manufacturer: VTech CPU: Rockwell 6502A (8-bit) @ 2 MHz Memory: RAM: 1 KB, Video RAM: 16 KB Graphics: Custom On Board Chip Sound: Texas Instruments SND76489 (4 Channels - 3 Tonal, 1 Noise) Display: 256 × 192 Media: Cartridges Max Controllers: 2 Sort Title: VTech CreatiVision Platform Category: Consoles Notes: The VTech CreatiVision, usually just referred to as the CreatiVision, is a second generation (1976-1992) video game console developed and distributed by VTech. It was released in early 1982 in Europe at a retail price of £499. The console was also released in Australia (1988) and New Zeland (1988) as the Dick Smith Wizard. The CreatiVision was a hybrid computer and home video game console. The console was discontinued in early 1986. Picture:

Title: VTech Socrates Scrape As: VTech Socrates Release Date: 7/11/1988 Developer: VTech Manufacturer: VTech CPU: Zilog Z80A @ 3.58Mhz Memory: 64 KB Graphics: Custom On Board Chip Sound: Toshiba tc8802AF Display: 256 x 228 Media: Cartridges Max Controllers: 2 Sort Title: VTech Socrates Platform Category: Consoles Notes: The VTech Socrates, usually just referred to as the Socrates, is a third generation (1983-2003) video game console developed and distributed by VTech. It was released in July 1988 in North America at a retail price of $129.99. The console was also released in Germany (1988) as the Prof. Weiss-Alle and France (1988) as the Professeur Saitout. The Socrates was an educational machine that featured standard wireless controllers which communicated via infrared reception. The console was discontinued quietly in the early 1990's. Picture:

Title: ZAPiT Game Wave Family Entertainment System Scrape As: Game Wave Family Entertainment System Release Date: 10/31/2005 Developer: ZAPiT Games Manufacturer: ZAPiT Games CPU: Mediamatics 8611 Memory: 16 MB SRAM Graphics: N/A Sound: 2 Channel D/A Full Stereo Display: 480p,480i,720p,720i,1080i Media: DVD Max Controllers: 6 Sort Title: ZAPiT Game Wave Family Entertainment System Platform Category: Consoles Notes: The ZAPiT Game Wave Family Entertainment System, usually just referred to as the Game Wave, is a seventh generation (2005-2017) video game console developed and distributed by ZAPiT Games. It was released in October 2005 in North America, starting in Canada, at a retail price of $99.99. The Game Wave was a hybrid DVD player and home console, mostly focused on trivia based games. The console was discontinued sometime in 2009. Picture: Additional Platform Change Suggestions (For the Admins): There are 2 Platforms that reference the Game Wave - This platform should be eliminated, and any games be merged into this platform. The current platform should be renamed to "ZAPiT Game Wave Family Entertainment System" to follow other platforms like Sony PlayStation, Sega Genesis, Atari Jaguar, etc.

Title: WoW Action Max Scrape As: WoW Action Max Release Date: 9/30/1987 Developer: Worlds of Wonder Manufacturer: Worlds of Wonder CPU: HD401010 (8-bit) @ 4 MHz Memory: 32 bytes Graphics: N/A Sound: Internal Speaker Display: 320 x 200 NTSC; 320 x 256 PAL Media: VHS Cassette Tape Max Controllers: 1 Sort Title: WoW Action Max Platform Category: Consoles Notes: The WoW Action Max, usually just referred to as the Action Max, is a third generation (1983-2003) video game console developed and distributed by Worlds of Wonder. It was released in September 1987 in North America at a retail price of $99.99. The console was also released in Europe (1987) in a limited capacity. The Action Max system required the owner to have a VCR to play it's games which were on VHS tapes. The console was discontinued in early 1988. Picture:

Back in 2018 I was making submissions on how we could standardize the platform information to be of one voice. This includes Notes and Specs. Since I dropped off the community for a few years, I have since come back and decided I want to try and continue that work as I see not a lot of impact has been done on the literal platforms. It looks like platforms are still approved by admins rather then by the community so I will post here the notes that I add for systems in case updating is not done that quickly and others want to accurately document their platforms. If these posts get traction I would love to see us properly naming platforms and removing duplicates as well going forward. Example of improperly named: Game Wave Example of duplicates: Xaviport

I made the following submissions on 10/22/2018 ~3:00AM UTC. Thanks GamingZone

I agree with that. I will change that submission and resubmit. (Change also below)

Submitted Some Sony Consoles:

Sure, but I am talking about duplicate Platforms as the root cause. The games are because user's were either unaware of the other entry or because of error. Thanks.

Looking at the GamesDB https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/platforms/games/216 (Gamewave) is a duplicate of: https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/platforms/games/172 (Game Wave Family Entertainment System) Looks like there is a lot of duplicate games there too. How are things like this fixed, and what is the impact to the end user that has them linked in their DB?

3 More Added:

Back from a long week at work I have submitted a few more:

Yeah back in the 1980's they were really bad at naming things ? I'd like to add that it probably doesn't matter as much what the Game DB has in it as long as it is easy for an end user to find that game. The user can always name there launchbox title for that game whatever they want anyways.

While I understand your frustration with naming some of these games were referred to as that name back in the day. Example: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Dragons of Flame https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/990 Also shouldn't games in the database be the literal title on the front of the box? Sometimes that means the title doesn't "feel" right, but for prosperity this seems the most logical. Or am I understanding wrong and you are referring to a shortening of "AD&D" rather then "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons"? Thoughts?

Thanks, Was not sure where this should go from a Newb perspective, thus why I asked there. I appreciate the help so far. ~Gaming Zone

1. How do we submit to get new platforms added to the Games DB? - A good Example is `Pioneer Palcom LaserDisc` which appears in a few themes (or has a Unified Video on Emumovies) as a possible Platform. 2. For Platforms on the Games DB there, what is the process for image control? It would be nice to see the default Bannar's and clear logos that would be downloaded for the platform, In fact it would also be nice to see multiple versions of the devices as images as well (Example Atari 2600 had multiple different versions in it's long print run.) 3. As a community (or as the Games DB Moderators) should there not be a defined method to the naming of the Platforms rather then most following a pattern and few not? - Naming for most follow the pattern [Producer] [Game System] where some systems are missing there producer, like the `Bandai Wonderswan` or the `Panisonic 3DO Interactive Multiplayer`, named `Wonderswan` and `Interactive Multiplayer` respectively.

Made A Few More Submissions:

Two More Updates:

A small feature I would love to see is a previous and next button on the Edit Game Modal window to edit multiple games without going back to the main list and having to perform two more clicks to edit the next game in the list. Another feature I would love to see is the ability to remember a specific name for emumovies to scrape with. If I prefer to name my collection like `Game: Subtitle` I don't want to have to change this to `Game - Subtitle` or some other obscure name just to try and get up to date emu movies content again. Either a emumovies override field added to the Other tab, or some back end magic to handle this would be great.

Here are what I have submitted so far,

So i revised the text i put together for consoles. I have made the submissions to the GamesDB for the following so far: Atari Consoles. (A lot of what we have is just cut and paste for Wikipedia anyway.) My goal was to have as concise a description as I could put together in one paragraph of information. The paragraph has the following: 1. A sentence describing the name, console generation, and publisher. 2. A sentence with the primary country's release date and price. 3. A sentence for other released countries and years. 4. A sentence talking about a defining feature of the device. 5. A sentence describing the discontinuation date of the platform. These descriptions seem to look decent in the Unified Redux Big Box Theme. Any other information that seems super necessary when viewing in say BigBox or the GamesDB mainly?

I know that I can make suggestions to the details of a Platform on the Games DB, but I was wondering would people be more accepting to see similar notes on all platforms? It seems that it would be nice to have consistency, especially if the info is displayed in Bigbox. I know I have seen a few that are very thorough on the system, and others that are lucky to have a sentence. I am going through mine and replacing with text like this: I am at a point that I have gotten a lot from the community and I am willing to give back if it would be appreciated. Thoughts?

Thank you Circo.

I don't think there is an issue on LaunchBox's side. I just triggered a download from my email link and downloaded the file in about a minute.