LonestarK Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 The following games have been deleted from the database. Who submitted the deletions? What reasons were provided? Who approved the deletions? There is a very limited set of valid reasons to delete anything from the database. Games List: Brutal Pico Race Freezing Knights Frog King Get Out of This Dungeon Ghost Detective Gifts on Venus Golf Sunday Into Ruins Just One Boss Kalikan Low Mem Sky Marballs Marballs 2 Motion REC Mot's 8 Ball Pool Ozelotl Rocket to the Top Snow The Adventures of Jelpi The Merciless Deep The games were released via lexaloffle.com for the PICO-8 platform and released via itch.io for the Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms. The LaunchBox database had these games under the Linux platform just a few weeks ago. I checked to see if the entries had simply been moved to the PICO-8 platform, newly implemented to the database, by someone who mistakenly believes that the game was only released to just the PICO-8 platform; This is not the case, these entries have been completely deleted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJF Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 (edited) On 2/4/2024 at 5:59 PM, LonestarK said: The following games have been deleted from the database. Who submitted the deletions? What reasons were provided? Who approved the deletions? There is a very limited set of valid reasons to delete anything from the database. Games List: Brutal Pico Race Freezing Knights Frog King Get Out of This Dungeon Ghost Detective Gifts on Venus Golf Sunday Into Ruins Just One Boss Kalikan Low Mem Sky Marballs Marballs 2 Motion REC Mot's 8 Ball Pool Ozelotl Rocket to the Top Snow The Adventures of Jelpi The Merciless Deep The games were released via lexaloffle.com for the PICO-8 platform and released via itch.io for the Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms. The LaunchBox database had these games under the Linux platform just a few weeks ago. I checked to see if the entries had simply been moved to the PICO-8 platform, newly implemented to the database, by someone who mistakenly believes that the game was only released to just the PICO-8 platform; This is not the case, these entries have been completely deleted. Pico-8 is NOT a platform specific, and the games are playable on EVERY OS via the PICO-8 system, there is no need for separate entries for each OS OpenBOR is the same way, do we start adding separate entries for Linux and Windows for OpenBOR games as well? Edited February 26 by MJF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonestarK Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 Thank you for your contribution but I believe it is muddying the point. These games were not duplicate entries on separate platforms; these games were completely deleted from the database. And the image files are now completely lost. Changing the platform field in the games entry from any one OS to PICO-8 is a forgivable mistake, completely deleting an entire game entry rather than correct that one field is vandalization of the database. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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