Because it's META DATA and has nothing to do with the title name. All this crap should be kept in a separate file, json or xml or something.

I don't care at all about your p2p sharing and "sets" as all that stuff is not at all important to this projects goals. If you can't organize files by region yourself, that's your issue and nothing to do with preservation.

Aggressive much?

I don't care at all about your p2p sharing and "sets" as all that stuff is not at all important to this projects goals. If you can't organize files by region yourself, that's your issue and nothing to do with preservation.

I personally never liked the languages or regions in the name.

I don't get how you think that would work.

http://redump.org/disc/633/
http://redump.org/disc/6858/
http://redump.org/disc/18697/
http://redump.org/disc/17273/

Would all just be named  "007 Racing"

anyway, back on topic

I fully agree that as it stands these discs absolutely need to have the originating system somehow defined in the Filename:
it is the quickest and easiest way to collate them.

the question is, from the sound of it, how to link them in the DB. (other than in the comments which obviously doesn't work for DAT functionality)
IF we go with the option of including Bonus discs in the system DATs (assuming they are linked somehow with one or more 'Parent' discs in the DB) what happens when there are discs from multiple regions have the exact same Bonus Disc,  What is the logic used?.

Eg:

Playstation2.game (Germany) (Special Edition)
Playstation2.game (France) (Special Edition)
Playstation2.game (Spain) (Special Edition)
Playstation2.game (Italy) (Special Edition)
Playstation2.game (United Kingdom) (Special Edition)

The bonus DVD Would be named presumably:

Playstation2.game (Europe) (Bonus DVD) (Bundled with Special Edition)

Which original becomes the parent?

and how do they become included in multiple DATs when the bonus discs matches accross systems and regions:
(I can't find any examples from a quick search, so this is a massive hypothetical) but for example:

say

Playstation2.game (Germany) (Special Edition)
Playstation2.game (France) (Special Edition)
Playstation2.game (Spain) (Special Edition)
Playstation2.game (Italy) (Special Edition)
Playstation2.game (United Kingdom) (Special Edition)
Xbox.game (Germany) (Special Edition)
Xbox.game (France) (Special Edition)
Xbox.game (Spain) (Special Edition)
Xbox.game (Italy) (Special Edition)
Xbox.game (United Kingdom) (Special Edition)
Gamecube.game (Germany) (Special Edition)
Gamecube.game (France) (Special Edition)
Gamecube.game (Spain) (Special Edition)
Gamecube.game (Italy) (Special Edition)
Gamecube.game (United Kingdom) (Special Edition)

all come with the very same Region 2 Bonus DVD

What does that DVD get named? and how is it included with the system DATs ?

Is the option to just include comments and Metadata in the DATs or keep them as is but add a lot more information to the comments section?  should you have to refer the the website to find this information out?

I personally never liked the languages or regions in the name, especially some releases with like a dozen languages. I simply rename everything on my end how I want and don't even bother with .dat since everything becomes an unsortable ugly mess mess. Granted that's my personal thing, but it doesn't correlate to the original point of the thread.

So what happens if a game is released on multiple systems, but the disc's release was just accompanied by a certain system?

Only that certain system should be mentioned, then, if it's somehow tied to only one of the ports.

It looks sloppy as hell and not part of the item's official title.

The region tags, various "(Alt)" and similar tags aren't the parts of the title as well, it's not an argument. The title part ends before the region tag.

I have several promotional DVDs that cover numerous different systems.  For example, I have store demonstration DVDs that cover games across 3, 4, sometimes even more systems. 

Perhaps the discussion here is more on dvds released WITH certain game releases, I don't know.

Regarding the file-naming, I'm inclined to agree with user7 and Jackal here that the current system does seem to create a really long and sloppy/complicated name.  Rather than passive aggressive attacks going both ways, surely we can come up with some solutions here that will please everyone.

This discussion has been going on forever, and now getting into Video and Audio stuff there needs to be something else defined, no intro doesn't cut it. Said that 10 years ago, it's true today. A lot of stuff it just not a tightly controlled closed source product that is easily put into a box.

One mod wants to do it one way, and another mod wants to do it another way, and we're still in the same place with pointless bickering instead of hammering out a solution that everyone can be happy with, or at least tolerate. DJ and I tried to bring some kind of consistency to PC, but that's been thrown to the wind again with all kinds of random whatever defining versions and we're split down the middle about editions being in the name or not.

Accuracy in filenames should be to identify a particular thing, not some OCD thing with perfect naming or caring about how long it is or whatever. It should have some kind of standard, and it cannot be based on information that not all discs have like the PVD date, or Version of the exe, or whatever other non universal thing, and it's only going to get worse with entertainment media. I'd just assume leave them out if they aren't directly tied to a title to function.

There's plenty of valid points from all sides, it's time to figure it out and stop avoiding it.

Nobody likes your naming scheme @F1ReB4LL

Only 2 persons so far (not including TS, who has only pointed at the long filenames so far).

Stop trolling. I've stated above quite clearly:

OK, let's ask iRobot to remove all the tags, because any tag turns your title into fictional. And they must be in UTF 8 to support colons, question marks, etc., because replacing a colon with a dash makes the title "fictional". Asian titles should be all named using the native alphabet, since not all of them have the romanized titles on their covers and we don't want the fictional ones.

You've already made your PC section an unmaintainable untagged pile of crap with all those untagged titles for all the OSes and PC/MAC/Amiga/whatever else hybrids and with all the standard ringcode revision marks absolutely ignored in all the cases, now you want to do the same with the media sections, no, that won't happen. It is now already full of questionable dumps without the title keys and possibly the decrypted dumps as well (since I remember some early discussions about dumping the protected ones with IsoBuster and active AnyDVD), let's now also give them plain untagged names and make them absolutely unsortable.

Once again: let's do the shorter tags, but it's not the "tags vs. no tags" discussion, but a tags format discussion. "A giant douche vs. a turd sandwich" election, if you want.

Did iRobot have any say in this?