Mikerochip

I've brought it up in comments, but, there's a couple of games on the Mega Drive, and on the N64, where there is a game in two different regions, eg N64 Bomberman, with the same title, but are completely different games. So, different game, different boxart, different publishers, different developers, etc etc. At the time I proposed [TITLE] / [PUBLISHER] but it was rejected. The N64 one was eventually added as N64 Bomberman Arcade. Someone renamed many of the C64 games over the last few days, to be the [GAMENAME] / [PUBLISHER] and while lots of them were approved, lots were changed back again. In the case of the C64, there are multiple games, in the same region, with the same title, all by different publishers. The other 8 bits are similar. Even some of the 16 bit computers have this problem. Leaving them all in the database with the same name is confusing, and hard to scrape, since the scraper just looks at the title. Some often have the same year of release too, so, there's almost nothing to distinguish them when scraping. (Which obviously makes it hard to pick the correct game, and then, if you combine, all games have the same ID, and are combined into the same game, when they really ought not to be) Thoughts?

Well, it came up at least once before It's not an "issue", it's just inconsistent looking. It might be no harm to have an actual convention going forward though. Anyhow. It's up to you guys obviously.

Yeah. Of course. But, isn't a naming convention .. exactly that, a convention? The question on the table is why are some systems arbitrarily given half a name (the system only), and others given a full name. You have laid down a set of rules for the naming convention of games, which is fine, but, systems are a sort of "whatever the mod who entered it feels like it should be called"? Why not have an actual naming convention for systems too. It's more than a little frustrating to have 2/3 of the systems named [Manufacturer] + [Machine Name] and the rest just [Machine Name].

@virividiann1198 I've raised this issue before, and been ignored, so, I wouldn't hold your breath. (Almost 3 years ago) There's a fair few inconsistencies in the database system naming. The vast majority of systems listed here were sold under a single name, eg Mega Drive, and won't get mixed up with any other consoles, yet, the platform isn't called Mega Drive, it's called Sega Mega Drive. But, the platform for all the Nintendo (except the Virtual Boy, for whatever reason), Bandai, the NEC Super Grafx (and yet the Turbo Grafx-16 has NEC in the title), Nueon, Colecovision, lack the the manufacturer. There's more, too. see: A different argument is why all systems have the American name, rather than A) the original (launch) name eg the Mega Drive was called the Mega Drive in Japan, or b) the most popular name eg again, the Mega Drive was called the Mega Drive over the vast majority of the world. Japan, India, the rest of Asia, all of Europe. It's only called the Genesis in the US. (Nevermind the Korean or Hebrew names for the console) Is there any way the alternate naming for systems, and also games, could be showed on the page for the game/system? eg Donkey Kong Country / Super Donkey Kong on the SNES. To that end, do you need an official "other names" field, as well as an alias? Since, there are games who's name only appears as kanji, but have a written English title which is only the translated title of the game. Anyhow. Just some thoughts.

Of course! And that's what I am doing! That doesn't change the fact that they're hugely inconsistent.

Can the system list naming inconsistency be sorted? I've only recently started using Launchbox, and it just looks really weird. Some systems are called their [Company] [US System Name], and some are just called [System Name]. eg Wonderswan, where, if it was named consistently, it should be called Bandai Wonderswan, and probably the same with the NES, Nintendo made the Nintendo Entertainment System, as well as the Super NES. The NES obviously is up for some debate, is it the 'Nintendo Entertainment System' made by Nintendo, or is it the 'Entertainment System' made by Nintendo. But the SNES isn't really: Nintendo made the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Shouldn't the Super NES be titled the Nintendo Super Nintendo Entertainment System? And Acorn made the BBC Micro, not BBC. And NEC made both the PC Engine, SuperGrafx, and the Turbo Grafx, but only 2x of them in the system list are prefixed by NEC. Microsoft made both Windows and DOS, along with the Xbox, but DOS is just MS-DOS where Windows is just windows, but it's the XBox is the Microsoft XBox.