[DONE] What should I call these editions? (Page 2 of 2)

Currently it's listed as "Special Edition" of "SimCity 2000: Special Edition", not "Special Edition" of "SimCity 2000". I don't want to see any custom "double titles" in the db (unless there are real cases with the "double" naming, doubt it). Edition should be in the "Edition" field only, never in the title (unless it's the only edition of the game, so the edition is a part of the title).

"Special Edition" isn't the only edition of this game on this platform, so you're wrong.

I agree, as I said a lot of times, that if we have for example:

Game 1
Game 1: Special Edition

which are different games (for example: Special Edition has 1 bonus course), "Special Edition" should go in title and edition for this game is "Original". If the game is the same of "Original" with no bonus or else "Special Edition" is the edition and nothing has to be added to title unless games differ but in this case DB wants this in "datfile" tag (by the way this doesn't match no-intro tags syncro).

'Jewel Case' is important because the jewel case version of the disc is different from the boxed version of it - the inclusion of a PDF manual, for example.

I did the same thing for these as I do for every single-data-track CD. I used Isobuster to rip the track, do the same thing on another computer, and make sure they're identical. I rip it by extracting it as raw, which I was under the impression was the same as treating it as Mode 2/2352. For the cuesheet, I use this generic one:
FILE "TRACK 01.BIN" BINARY
  TRACK 01 MODE2/2352
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
This was given to me by someone in IRC a long time ago (I don't remember who) that told me to use this generic sheet for single-track CD rips. Should I not be using this? And if not, what should I use? I was led to believe that all data tracks are ripped and handled the same way, is this not true?

BTW, this is something that's always bothered me about the dumping guide; it doesn't really handle this issue very well. It states that you only need to include a cuesheet for games with audio tracks, which isn't true. This confused me at first, because the form refused to accept a disc without a cuesheet, and that's when I was told to use that generic one. If it's true that all single-data-track discs are handled the same way, it would make more sense to have a checkbox on the form you can use to indicate there's only one track. And if it's not true, someone needs to update the guide to say what to do for those discs.

It doesn't, I checked. My feelings on the title is that it should be named (regions aside) SimCity 2000 (Special Edition) (Jewel Case). My reasoning for this:

The most important part of the filename is the name of the game. This defines the most important aspect of the disc, namely what it is. Everything else is metadata. Then comes the edition field. This should be used for when the game contains distinct content from other releases of the game - usually additional content, but it could be applied if something was removed for some reason. In this example, the 'special edition' contains an editor, user-created cities, a making-of video, and other stuff not found in the original SimCity 2000. Now, it's possible there may be some variances within the same edition; that's what the next field is for. This disc has a PDF manual that the original doesn't, making it different from the standard Special Edition disc. However, the manual isn't really new content - it was included with the original SE too, but it was in dead-tree rather than digital format. This means it's not enough to earn a new edition, but it is distinct from the first edition and needs to be labeled somehow.

Of course, this ignores other metadata such as regions and disc labels, but I'm ignoring those for the sake of discussion. I can't see any flaws with this scheme, but I'd like to know if there are any.

Well, crap. Now I'm kind of ticked off - no one ever told me I need to check this sort of thing, the guide doesn't say a damn thing about this, and someone gave me bad information back when I was trying to learn how to do all this. Gahh, now I have to check all my dumps again and correct the ones with wrong info... >:-(  Well, at least I don't need to dig up the physical discs again. Guess I'll have to chalk this up to a learning experience.