RELEASE DATES

[lones710]

Hi guys,

there is someone who is changing the release dates of NES titles from the correct NA date to the JAP date like there is no tomorrow... Could we have a disclaimer directly on the gamesdb somewhere that NA titles and release dates are the top priority right now (until we have region dependant release dates).

Thanks

 

Edit: The same thing happens for titles sometimes. We really need a warning/disclaimer for this kind of stuff.

Edited January 5, 2017 by lones710

[mlsaunders1985]

Point 14.c of the guidelines says that "the release date should be the first date the game was released on". This is usually the Japanese release date, so I guess that's what's happening here.

[lones710]

Thanks for the clarification, seems I missed this particular change to the guidelines!

[SentaiBrad]

Yea it's been there from the start, but I get why it's confusing. We do need the ability for alternate dates. I've been debating on changing this rule to say that the date should reflect the facing name. So if the facing name is NTSC-U (which it should be), then the facing date should also be NTSC-U. If a game never came out here, then the name used should be the date for that region.

[SentaiBrad]

There was a discussion about the dates on the Discord, and I think we will stick with the first date a game has. When alternate dates becomes a thing (multiple dates with region association), then we'll move forward from there.

[lones710]

Alternate dates need to be a thing. AND we should be able to specify what region the main title is (like we can also specifiy the region of ALL boxarts etc)

[SentaiBrad]

Of course, both things are on the to-do, but we have one developer and the person who was working on the Database is donating their time, so things are moving a bit slower than usual.