Oh, yes. I mean at presentation level.Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:17 pm Do you mean discussing if the real name should be displayed along the alias in SC? That's a decision for @PeterJ since that's a website related change that doesn't depend on ZXDB...
How to handle aliases?
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Re: How to handle aliases?
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Re: How to handle aliases?
We have specific fields to indicate Pentagon (min. machine type) and lightgun (groups). This information shouldn't be in comments.druellan wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 3:30 pmAs you can see, can be a lot for some titles, and if you try to display everything on "comments" the section will start to feel bloated, and important comments, like the game running only on a Pentagon, or the need of a lightgun emulation to play it, will become mixed in between.
The comments field is intended to store the kind of additional information you consider trivia...
I don't see the need to use comments to describe how to emulate the game. It should be obvious from the hardware requirements.
There's already a boolean column in table ENTRIES to indicate games that don't have loading screens, so there's no need to use comments for this information either.
If the only available file is a pirated version, this information is indicated in the file itself, not in the comments section of the game.
The similarity to another game is not relevant for running the game. I think it qualifies as trivia.
The comment "128K only" is redundant. The same information is clearly visible in "machine type". I will remove this comment in the next ZXDB update. Thanks for pointing this out!
Thank you for bringing up this discussion! I appreciate the chance to revaluate ZXDB and look for possible improvements. In particular, displaying real names next to aliases was a good idea, I hope Peter will implement it
Re: How to handle aliases?
Oh! interesting! Great! So, the confusion I have is more related to the necessity of a cleanup of the comments that are now redundant, than the need of an extra table to keep posting trivia.Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:06 pm We have specific fields to indicate Pentagon (min. machine type) and lightgun (groups). This information shouldn't be in comments.
The comments field is intended to store the kind of additional information you consider trivia...
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I think sodruellan wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 2:28 pmOh! interesting! Great! So, the confusion I have is more related to the necessity of a cleanup of the comments that are now redundant, than the need of an extra table to keep posting trivia.Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:06 pm We have specific fields to indicate Pentagon (min. machine type) and lightgun (groups). This information shouldn't be in comments.
The comments field is intended to store the kind of additional information you consider trivia...
I have been doing a lot of cleanup since ZXDB started. But that's not something worth announcing, unlike adding new titles for instance.
If you spot further opportunities for cleanup, please let me know!
Re: How to handle aliases?
Yeah, I'm starting to use more and more the database, I want to start pointing this kind of things, details that usually are left for later, and usually "later" never arrives.