Trial Edition, Demos, Tentou-you Taikenban and others...Delete or not?

[Fabricio]

I started this topic to know what are we will doing with "Demo games", "Trial Edition", "Tentou-you Taikenban" and others games like that set:

https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/136046

This set have a "(DUPLICATE OF Resident Evil: Dead Aim NEEDS REMOVING!!)" Tag, so i remove them cause i think this is not really a duplicate of Resident Evil: Dead Aim. This is a Demo version of the same game.

My question is: We must remove all demo games and treated like a duplicate of the official release and not add any more demos, or we must leave it and database and continue add more demo games?

This is just a question about database.

My opinion is: We must have de demo games in database and treated like "magazine games" and other "softwares" like tools, game sharks and  others.

[kurzih]

I personally think that game demo versions should be left as separate entries in the database. In many cases the actual demo version differs from the final product. And in the Amiga section for example there are magazine exclusive demo levels that are not found in the final product.

And on the console front as well, for example: https://hiddenpalace.org/Patlabor_-_The_Game_(Taikenban_1.0) turned out to be a different game in the end.

No reason why they should be deleted/not uploaded. Game demos are part of the gaming culture, read this article for example: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-02-26-the-joy-of-treating-demos-like-a-finished-game

My guess is that someone didn't quite understand the word Taikenban, which is just "Trial/Demo version" in Japanese and thought it was a duplicate Japanese language alternative version of a game that had a Western (ie. North American) entry. These demo versions have been in the database for a long time and I'm giving my voice to let them be there in the future as well.

 

 

Edited June 21, 2021 by kurzih