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=== Ratings Changes === | |||
As you know, our ratings are old. Very old. I'll paste them here for memory sake. | |||
::[[File:Stars0.png]] Unknown: Has not been tested yet | |||
::[[File:Stars1.png]] Broken: Crashes when booting | |||
::[[File:Stars2.png]] Intro/Menu: Hangs/crashes somewhere between booting and starting | |||
::[[File:Stars3.png]] Starts: Starts, maybe even plays well, but crashes or major graphical/audio glitches | |||
::[[File:Stars4.png]] Playable: Runs well, only minor graphical or audio glitches. Games can be played all the way through | |||
::[[File:Stars5.png]] Perfect: No issues at all! | |||
Because of how vague that is and the need to handle more complex situations, we (or at least I) generally operated on a variant of those. Here they are. | |||
::[[File:Stars0.png]] Unknown: Has not been tested yet | |||
::[[File:Stars1.png]] Crashes when booting | |||
::[[File:Stars2.png]] Cannot reach gameplay but can reach menus | |||
::[[File:Stars3.png]] Major unsolvable issues | |||
::[[File:Stars4.png]] Minor unsolvable issues or fixable major issues | |||
::[[File:Stars5.png]] Perfect (with some tolerance for issues too minor to be user noticeable) | |||
Now this has been the case for a long, looooong time. But there are a lot of problems with this. There are almost no 1 and 2 star pages anymore. Dolphin has evolved past the point where such a system is needed. Furthermore, the scope of each rating is vast: a game that has major graphics glitches but is completely playable: 3 stars. A game that has severe stuttering and is utterly unplayable: 3 stars. A game that crashes during the first level: 3 stars. Plus, 4 and 5 star ratings are vague and weird. | |||
So, to solve this, I brought it up in IRC and we hammered out a proposal that should address these issues. Most of them anyway. Here it is: | |||
::[[File:Stars0.png]] Untested | |||
::[[File:Stars1.png]] Does not pass the main menus | |||
::[[File:Stars2.png]] Unplayable or cannot be completed | |||
::[[File:Stars3.png]] Main mode can be completed, but has major glitches/crashes or missing modes | |||
::[[File:Stars4.png]] Minor issues | |||
::[[File:Stars5.png]] Perfect with the right settings | |||
Now, obviously it's a little vague here and there. That can't be fixed; what determines minor bugs, major bugs, unplayable is a bit subjective. And there are some decisions that have to be made: | |||
*is it Perfect if a super tiny non-user noticeable bug remains? Example - {{issue|6398}}. | |||
*if it requires an extreme compatibility setting (interpreter, LLE, EFB to Ram uncached, MMU) with a significant performance hit to be perfect, should it still be marked as perfect? And if so what settings count for that? | |||
*Is user configuration a component of this rating? If a major bug can be fixed is it still 3 stars or is it put up to 4 or 5? | |||
And of course it could use a little polishing in phrasing and the like. Still, I think overall this is a lot better. Removing "crashes on boot" gives us more room in 3-4-5 to make the ratings more specific. Plus, most of the changes are in the 1-2 star range, so it won't require us change ratings for every single game on the entire wiki. That's definitely a benefit. | |||
So guys, what do you think? We'll need to get as many specifics as we can hammered out before we go along with this. If things get too complicated we can use [[Project:Wiki Conventions]] for detailed information and have a trimmed down version in the ratings guide. It's work, definitely, but this is a long standing crappy system that really could use an overhaul. When it's done, this should be a nice improvement for us. - [[User:MaJoR|MaJoR]] ([[User talk:MaJoR|talk]]) 06:11, 23 August 2013 (CEST) | |||
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