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Overview

This template is used on all game pages. If you are creating a new page, you should flesh out the infobox with as much release information as you can. Some tags also need some rules, listed below:

  • |image = must have the thumbnail size tag based on software type. We use 300px size for GameCube and Wii games, 350px size for Wii Channel screenshots and 160px size for WiiWare titles. If you image doesn't resize, just add some garbage to the end of tag such as the image name (for example [[File:FlingSmash.jpg‎|300px|FlingSmash]]). Cover preference order would be: US NTSC, UK PAL, Other PAL, JP, Other.
  • |developer = must include only the developer of Dolphin emulated platforms (for example, the Playstation 2 and Xbox version of Mortal Kombat Armageddon was developed by Midway but the Wii version was developed by Just Games Interactive, so in this case we include only Just Games Interactive).
  • |publisher = and |released = must use the VGrelease template (for example, on Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins Of The Moon, the publisher tag use {{vgrelease|JP=Namco Bandai Games|NA=Xseed Games|EU=Rising Star Games}} and released tag use {{vgrelease|JP=January 22, 2009|NA=March 16, 2010|EU=March 19, 2010}}).

The template will auto-generate categories for each genre and gameplay mode listed.

Parameters

The following are the only valid parameters accepted by Template:Infobox VG. The most common/important entries are in bold.

|title (Only for fringe cases)
|image (Box cover art)
|channeltype (Only for Wii Channel pages)
|developer
|publisher
|series
|platforms (Only for Virtual Console titles to indicate original release system)
|released
|genre
|modes (Single-player, Multiplayer (#), Co-op, Online)
|input
|forumlink (Dolphin forum page URL)
|wikipedia (Wikipedia page title, only when automatic link does not work (see F1 2002))

Reference pages

You can refer to the pages below, all are using the appropriate rules and fields: