When I signed up Nova told me to just ask the forums for help with finding a Plextor drive for CD dumping without costing me my arms, well now I'm ready. Anyone knows anyone who has one to sell at a reasonable price? I cannot use EBay.
1 2024-01-25 14:59:15
Topic: Seriously looking for a Redump-approved Plextor drive now (1 replies, posted in General discussion)
2 2024-01-19 02:32:25
Re: Cannot add attachments to my posts ("File has never been downloaded") (5 replies, posted in General discussion)
Thanks guys, I've posted my first verification now.
3 2024-01-18 10:12:49
Topic: Cannot add attachments to my posts ("File has never been downloaded") (5 replies, posted in General discussion)
I'm trying to add my first submission to the database out of the 1500+ discs I own, but I can't add the files to my post, as the website just tells me "File has never been downloaded", and it does that with every file I try to upload.
4 2024-01-12 07:13:17
Re: Account Creation Request (8 replies, posted in Guests & account requests)
Thank you, please check my post in this thread:
5 2024-01-12 07:08:52
Re: A discussion on flags, regions, and languages (11 replies, posted in General discussion)
Before I can post my first dumps, we need to clarify what constitutes a region to the database. I am one of the top 10 contributors to VGcollect since many years and over there we already have guides and rules used to clarify these issues, but I understand that the rules here could be different, so I want these to be cleared up before I start to submit my dumps.
1) Should I base myself strictly on the disc artwork & text to decide what the region is, or should it be based on the box/case of the item? A lot of "canadian" region games have a bilingual box with bilingual manuals but will still have the exact same discs as the US version (in english only). Then there are others that have bilingual or french-only discs. If we do base ourselves on strictly the disc for this kind of data, then it makes no sense to have a field for barcodes given that those are always on the box.
2) Then there's the fact that some english-only "US" releases were also sold in Canada and that some games have never had a "US" release in the sense that there only exists a bilingual version but no english-only version. When this is the case, should we still treat them as canadian releases or do they become US releases given no english-only version exists? If so, how do we expect other people to even know which "canadian" releases are actually "US" releases? And it's not just canadian releases, but sometimes also "latin" releases (games with covers in english, french & spanish) that are the only version that exists, and sometimes even "mexican" releases (games with cover in Spanish & English).
3) Some rare PS2 CD-ROMs exists that are official, but do not have the blue coating that they usually have. An example of this are some late-production US region Tekken Tag Tournament. Should this detail be included in the variant's name, or in the description, or not at all?
4) I can't insert tabulations in MPF no matter what I try. So instead I just insert 3 spaces. Is this ok, or I must really edit my submission .txt files manually after every dump?
There are many more things that come to mind but they could potentially all be eliminated depending on the reply I get for question 1.