User talk:Xerxes

Feel free to talk (most likely to me) here about whatever. Problems, concerns, anything. Or just random stuff.

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Demo GameIDs
It would be good if you can also check the GameID inventory you have for:
 * other regional variants of those demos
 * other demo GameIDs missing from the wiki (i.e. X prefixed IDs) The DLP below provides the current ones, though I had to exclude the J region to filter out the MSX titles.

Kolano (talk) 10:52, 23 April 2019 (CEST)


 * Sure. The problem still is that the title metadata doesn't include the name of the game, just raw IDs pretty much (this ID is legitimate! for what game? I don't know...). It's really only good for ID expansion. I mean I can just assume it's the same with the same characters 1-3 and that will... always be correct with the digital releases. So I'll just do that. I need to make a script to rename them all from 00010001hexhexhexhex.tmd to the actual ID first though and that'll take me awhile since I'm pathetic at programming, otherwise I have to search with a converter.


 * If there actually are files including the game titles and IDs to scrape we should do that too before it's all gone. - Xerxes (talk) 20:30, 23 April 2019 (CEST)


 * Should these demos be their own pages? I guess now would be the time to do it. I know that's a massive clusterfuck though and we can do it later with DPL. - Xerxes (talk) 00:52, 24 April 2019 (CEST)


 * The safest thing would be to have separate pages for each (i.e. to allow for varying ratings between game and demo). But, yeah, I have little interest in pursuing generating / maintaining such; and I'd guess in most most cases issues will be shared between the game and it's demo anyway. Probably best to not worry about it until a case where varying issues / ratings would be needed. Kolano (talk) 05:54, 24 April 2019 (CEST)