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Around 7-8 posts were deleted, so someone who read it now could not understand anything.
Yes it's not a big deal, like a lot of other discussions, by the way it was changed so for someone would have been an important issue.

Are you talking to me? If yes: no comment, I don't want to restart again the offtopic discussion.

Did you read somewhere I said you or themabus said ALWAYS bullshit!? Did you read somewhere I said your XBOX research is bullshit!? Did you read somewhere I said themabus' ice, remove and so on are bullshit (I regard him more than once)!? Did you read somewhere I said my words are the Truth!?
Indeed you can read I wanted and needed explanation about your changes and assertions I find weird and / or wrong and I got no rational replies, unless an implicit "because we like it",  and "lols" or "something else" about my replies or tries to change my words, that's all.

STOP

My last reply, if you don't understand I think it's vain to explain anymore

Yes you misunderstood, but I know well after this last post of yours that it's a problem of our days, most of people see only black or white.
I create an association simply because the changes happen together.

Thanks for reporting something I wrote that was deleted so it's more clear that I have nothing against no-intro but only how it seems you and some others want it to be used.
First,  to match DB and dats you have to change DB structure and you cannot add tags in game name to match no-intro. You'll have perfect no-intro dats but a confused DB, I think Fireball wants to say the same.
'another point to chaos', 'stupid flags', 'hacked dumps extensions': these were referred to your actions / words and not to no-intro, it seems to much clear. I'll never say that a glass is useless, but if you break it on the head of someone it hurts, and you cannot say I hate glasses because of this assertion. It's clear now?

What I don't like of no-intro new convention (I mean the last one created a pair of years ago):

1) Long country flags: (E) is better than (Europe).

2) Same as above and something indeed you'd like: (UE) is better than (USA, Europe) ---> this is something awfull IMO.

3) This is the part related to Redump / Digital Media: carts has a REV stamped on circuit, indeed CDs/DVDs has a VER. in header or filesys and sometimes also in ringcode.
First I'd like you and all to understand that REV flag in no-intro has nothing to do with ALT flag, take a look at no-intro dats and you see they use even ALT flag when there's nothing else to differ two roms / disks.
Some systems has A or B or else in ring code so you can use this letter as revision like in no-intro, but you could even find for example 2 disc with A and 2 different VER. And all other systems? You have to use VER. flag. because there's nothing else and you cannot set random REV tags. IMO for digital media we should use VER. to avoid confusion.
Now go on SS, here you have to use ALT flag because there's nothing else known until now that can differ 2 dumps with same REV, DATE, VER., SERIAL, etc. Moreover SS is the only sytem which have all those ALTs you hate, but we cannot do anything. Moreover no-intro accepts ALT flag, but you don't like it. So?

AGAIN: ALT & REV ARE 2 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FLAGS, YOU CANNOT USE ONE INSTEAD OF THE OTHER.
REV => different revision
ALT => same revision but different checksum

This is another of yours, so indeed is it good to have 'John Smith (rev A)' & 'John Smith (rev B)'!?

I concer with you that we have to use EDITION flag to identify a dump, but this way for example:

Game 1 (USA)

Game 2 (USA) (Limited)

and not

Game 1 (USA) (Original)

Game 2 (USA) (Limited)

and if you have this situation:

Game 1 ---> One Limited and one Original dump match
Game 1 ---> One or more Limited dumps

like this again

Game 1 (USA)

Game 2 (USA) (Limited)

and not

Game 1 (USA) (Original, Limited)

Game 2 (USA) (Limited)

I's obvious we have to make changes to no-intro convention, but we aren't no-intro even if some no-intro members are also members here.
We had to change DB and to find a no-intro compromise before switching to no-intro, indeed someone seemed to ansious to go to no-intro.

Now it's clear?

This has nothing to do with old renaming or no-intro. These are simply mistakes and no-intro doesn't solve anything. AGAIN REV is not ALT.
To add any additional FLAG in dat we have a particoular field, so if something is added in filename field is a mistake. Indeed for Bonus CD it's different IMO, this has to be shown in DB filenames as they are no edition or else. Or did you want to add "Bonus CD" in Edition for more confusion!?

Yes so it's implicit that DB is father of .dat, you have to change DB structure to output correct dats (something that Dremora is doing) but you cannot adapt DB field entries to match no-intro or other wishes.

Last thing. Again leechers, read the previous post last EDIT.
Going back to Gamecube, topic of this thread.
I simply asked why we had to change an extension that was used also by us since the first GC dump and after I read the last pakkiso (obviously I know that program can be modified to compress everything) info with new compression for DVD isos it seems to me the extension was changed only to help leechers who compress and share images and who burn them (GCM is not a standard extension used by burning software) or that load them on Wiis with new iso loaders and so on..
You want to use .ISO, ok but I have no rational reply. Simply.

What's the meaning of this reply? what have to do all this with GC? If you don't know to much about GC why do you reply? Find me another system with "same Saturn protection + HD area + modded TOC" or similar to give a little sense to your reply...

It's quite clear that somebody is taking decisions about any aspect of the project justifying them with stupid or no sense matters or simply because they find this matters "cool". When somebody asks about, the only replies hide (or not) stupid or no sense matters or "because I like and it's cool".

At the end it's not important for me to have .GCM or .ISO (it seems so important for someone else), but at least give me a rational reply!

Hey themabus did I say something bad about pakkiso? Di you read it?

On your logical level, as you said, even DVDs are CDs. And also LP are CD. And if you want even a spiral is a CD.
On my logical level: if a "rounded digital media" cannot be read by the normal way or if only some kind of drives can read it, I cannot call it a standard CD or DVD.

Ok another point to chaos. By the way it's not so important, it's not me who wanted no-intro convention, but it seems that somebody is using no-intro convention to match his wishes (see also what Fireball said), am I wrong?

Read your words

Because you have choosen no-intro and naming convention have a different extention for Nintendo stuff? Because they are non common DVDs?

previous reply, moreover *iso Gamecube images you can find around are normally hacked, fixed, etc. and *.gcm is the regular extension used for Gamecube games.

Huh, it has a lot to do. Why did you want no-intro (including all other changes)? Read again all the posts about (the old ones).

I reapeat again, simply reply "We change extention because we like *.iso"

iR0b0t, ok so why?

Also some Gamecube games have a "only UK" release. Looking at DB you can see these ones have a serial ending with -UKV and quite most of them have also a different multi Euro release.
This is something that begins with previous console generation just to have a release for every language.
If a tag must be used it's better to choose "UK" if we are into no-intro.

Ok, Themabus! You don't understand and you finished to confirm that the old renaming was better. Weeks ago you said that serials are a problem for Japan PSX. What I have to say again?
Simply tell me "I want to rename games that way because I like it" it's not difficult.

This is another great point. I have nothing more to say about "who takes decisions" (sorry but 40% in my world is not majority! Expecially when another 40% (10 + 30) wanted to stay as it was) and what kind of renaming you want. Simply say "We want to go no-intro standard" and nothing else. As today I'll rename my stuff on my own without your dumb ideas (obviously I will submit dumps but I don't want to take any discussion about "null").

I don't want to use any custom naming, I simply don't agree with this change.
By the way, at least someone can make an archive of cues splitted by system to help people fix everything.

PS: I hope to be back soon to explain it better and to reply to other topics, along with some new dumps.

EDIT: No-intro convention is super-good for GC/Wii because they are essentially carts (GC had to be a cart system - Dolphin) and they have quite the same flags of other N. carts (no-intro was based first on Nintendo stuff, so probably this is why it has no problem with GC/Wii). Personally, but this is my opinion, I don't like extended country flags ("E" is better than "Europe"). HwitVlf idea of using PAL/NTSC/JAPAN has more sense.

I don't think that this disc has to be added, but, if someone else thinks it has to be added, I'm with you about PS2.