Searching for "Never Released" games on the ZXDB

[Audionautas]

Hi @Audionautas,

Let me read your message in full in the morning. I can however say that the comment 'I also know that you are trying to keep the data as faithful to WoS as possible and that's Ok.', is most certainly not the case. The WoS data is an excellent basis and we hugely appreciate the work that went into it by many people, but we certainly don't have any specific wish to stay faithful to it. Far more crucial is accuracy. The infoseek ID is if course crucial as do many websites use it.

Sorry, [mention]PeterJ[/mention] my fault. This is a false impression I got after providing some fixing to several Hewson games' entries (see this thread: viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2470), and seeing that some changes like adding a new author to Pyracurse (providing evidences), or changing other things in Marauder could be difficult. After seeing that those entries remain the same one month and a half later I thought that it would not be easy to make some of the suggested additions on the ZXDB. Anyway, I completely agree that accuracy is crucial in this case.

Thank you.

All the best!

[PeterJ]

Hi [mention]Audionautas[/mention],

ZXDB gets updated around once a month, so things can take a while to get reviewed and put into the database. We are a very small team and work through proposed changes as we can. Some need further discussion which can further delay things.

When [mention]druellan[/mention] has reviewed changes he flags the post with the green reviewed icon as can be seen in some of the posts below.

It's best to keep suggested database changes to these threads. We are into our third thread of these proposed changes, each with 50+ pages, so yes things do take time to process.

Because of the lockdown we have seen a huge increase in new releases which we try and keep up-to-date with too.

viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2421&hilit=Littke+bugs&start=10

Keep the suggestions coming though and we will review when we are able.

[Audionautas]

Hi @Audionautas,

ZXDB gets updated around once a month, so things can take a while to get reviewed and put into the database. We are a very small team and work through proposed changes as we can. Some need further discussion which can further delay things.

When @druellan has reviewed changes he flags the post with the green reviewed icon as can be seen in some of the posts below.

It's best to keep suggested database changes to these threads. We are into our third thread of these proposed changes, each with 50+ pages, so yes things do take time to process.

Because of the lockdown we have seen a huge increase in new releases which we try and keep up-to-date with too.

viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2421&hilit=Littke+bugs&start=10

Keep the suggestions coming though and we will review when we are able.

Thank you [mention]PeterJ[/mention] I'll try to make more suggestions in coming weeks.

[druellan]

Sorry, @PeterJ my fault. This is a false impression I got after providing some fixing to several Hewson games' entries (see this thread: viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2470), and seeing that some changes like adding a new author to Pyracurse (providing evidences), or changing other things in Marauder could be difficult. After seeing that those entries remain the same one month and a half later I thought that it would not be easy to make some of the suggested additions on the ZXDB. Anyway, I completely agree that accuracy is crucial in this case.

Hi! Sorry the delay on that thread. It is in my todo list for some time now, but I decided to postpone it until I finish my works on the "cover artist" thread, sadly (or luckily!), we uncover a lot of information missing for the titles of Players software, so, I'm busy with that, but rest assured your contribution is not overlooked, in fact, we did some back on forth and I have it marked as confirmed, so, it just a matter to finish the other works.

Regarding how difficult could be to do the changes, I think that aspect is secondary, I think it is important to have the reports and make sure they are accurate, and if something is complex, it is going to be done eventually.

Said that, don't hesitate on bring our attention on threads you think we overlooked.

[Audionautas]

Sorry, @PeterJ my fault. This is a false impression I got after providing some fixing to several Hewson games' entries (see this thread: viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2470), and seeing that some changes like adding a new author to Pyracurse (providing evidences), or changing other things in Marauder could be difficult. After seeing that those entries remain the same one month and a half later I thought that it would not be easy to make some of the suggested additions on the ZXDB. Anyway, I completely agree that accuracy is crucial in this case.

Hi! Sorry the delay on that thread. It is in my todo list for some time now, but I decided to postpone it until I finish my works on the "cover artist" thread, sadly (or luckily!), we uncover a lot of information missing for the titles of Players software, so, I'm busy with that, but rest assured your contribution is not overlooked, in fact, we did some back on forth and I have it marked as confirmed, so, it just a matter to finish the other works.

Regarding how difficult could be to do the changes, I think that aspect is secondary, I think it is important to have the reports and make sure they are accurate, and if something is complex, it is going to be done eventually.

Said that, don't hesitate on bring our attention on threads you think we overlooked.

Thank you [mention]druellan[/mention] In my comment above it was not my intention to seem impatient or impertinent. Simply I didn't exactly know how it works updating Spectrum Computing, and obviously I was not aware of the huge amount of work behind the scenes to keep everything up-to-date month after month. I'll try to contribute whenever I can. In the meantime, keep up the good work!!!

All the best!

[druellan]

Thank you @druellan In my comment above it was not my intention to seem impatient or impertinent.

Oh, don't worry, that was not my interpretation at all! But I feel I owe you an apology, because I was active on that thread asking questions, and then nothing happened

Simply I didn't exactly know how it works updating Spectrum Computing, and obviously I was not aware of the huge amount of work behind the scenes to keep everything up-to-date month after month. I'll try to contribute whenever I can.

Please do! And again, don't hesitate on calling up if you feel something got overlooked.