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Use Redump naming and full game titles in the wiki
07-21-2020, 05:47 PM (This post was last modified: 07-21-2020, 05:48 PM by 12GaugeRabbit.)
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Alice the Rabbit here and I may suggest renaming all game titles on the Wiki to their Redump names (especially Japanese games) and their full titles because it's the common game naming, and it is the system used by the Dolphin emu to verify games dumped from original NODs/DVDs. (I am not talking about piracy here though, I just like Redump names more.)
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07-25-2020, 01:48 PM (This post was last modified: 07-25-2020, 01:54 PM by Kolano.)
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(07-21-2020, 05:47 PM)12GaugeRabbit Wrote: Alice the Rabbit here and I may suggest renaming all game titles on the Wiki to their Redump names (especially Japanese games) and their full titles because it's the common game naming, and it is the system used by the Dolphin emu to verify games dumped from original NODs/DVDs. (I am not talking about piracy here though, I just like Redump names more.)

This had been a problem when the wiki was set up due to restrictions Redump put on access to their Wii inventories. I think they still may not be publicly accessible, but I'm not sure.

We are happy to allow for renames, if better ones exist; but...
  • It will be a good bit of work to enact large swaths of renames, which frequently will also need to touch on redirects and related template names.
  • I fear that some of the Redump titles may explicitly utilize the titles in the disc meta-data. These are typically good, but I believe there are at least a few cases where they are weird and misaligned with the actual titles.
  • Most of the titles have some pre-existing sources somewhere online, likely GameTDB.com in many cases. Not having resources fluent in Japanese can make accounting for discrepancies difficult. Expect some feuding as renames occur when there are multiple versions out there.
  • Since different manufactures may use different conventions, it may be hard to maintain consistency.
  • We also need to watch out for discrepancies due to folks not having appropriately accented keyboard characters. For instance "ō" is frequently converted to "ou"; I'm not clear how Redump handles such, but we currently prefer to use the accurate accented characters.
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