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 For the record, I promoted Melee to five stars based on encouragement from the devs that it qualified for "perfect" status regardless of the little bugs (again, skidau objecting :P). - [[User:MaJoR|MaJoR]] ([[User talk:MaJoR|talk]]) 22:27, 30 October 2013 (CET)
+=== Wii Network compatibility ===
+Now that the wii-network was merged to master and we also have a stable release that support, it would be nice having a compatibility chart or rating somewhere. From tests I ran with the games that I own that have Nintendo WFC features, I suggest something like that:
+* Broken: none of the WFC features work
+* Unsupported: titles servers down (like MH3)
+* Good: titles that have an online mode that works but some features (like Friend Codes or DLC) doesn't work or have other issues
+* Perfect: titles that works in Dolphin with all WFC features it has
+I'm not sure where we could put this, but my only suggestion for now is having a entry in the Infobox of games that have WFC capabilities. For functionalities that may need a NAND dump (like getting DLC) we could "rate" as good and then put a small note or tooltip. What about that? [[User:Jhonn|Jhonn]] ([[User talk:Jhonn|talk]])
+:I'm not really a fan of this idea. It's a lot of information to deal with and will be very hard to maintain. Most users won't bother with it. Will you maintain it? - [[User:MaJoR|MaJoR]] ([[User talk:MaJoR|talk]]) 04:37, 14 October 2013 (CEST)
+:I was also hoping to capture some further detail of titles with online features. Though many titles are covered by the "Online" modes indicator, that only covers titles supporting multiplayer online play. Some additional infobox field to show network characteristics is probably a good idea. I'd agree with major though, that we should be careful regarding the level of detail we go into. [[User:Kolano|Kolano]] ([[User talk:Kolano|talk]]) 06:05, 14 October 2013 (CEST)
+:: What about something like the ratings template? You put a number in a template subpage with the name of the game and then in the infobox we display a small text (rather than stars). I'm willing to maintain games that I own (if we proceed implementing this), but if only one person is going to handle this then the amount of work needed to implement the functionality doesn't compensate. Any other idea to simplify this to an easier way of managing? [[User:Jhonn|Jhonn]] ([[User talk:Jhonn|talk]])
+:::The rating list you have above may be OK, though we need to differentiate between what you've listed as "Unsupported" above, and games that actually don't support online features at all, I'd lean towards a -1 "Servers offline" rating, 0 for unsupported, and 1-3 for supported titles. We likely should also include a notes field to provide details of issues for the Broken/Good categories (it would also be good to disallow "Perfect" ratings if issues were noted. (I also revised the text above to use "title" rather than "game", we need to remember that not all Wii software titles are games).
+:::One other thing we may need to account for are tiles who's original servers are offline, but replacement servers are provided for. Though, unlike the many PC titles replacement servers have been provided for, GameCube/Wii titles may be too undocumented to provide separate server support for, it may be something the Dolphin team will want to support in future.[[User:Kolano|Kolano]] ([[User talk:Kolano|talk]]) 04:52, 15 October 2013 (CEST)
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