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PAL
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 271 |
date on crack releases
I find myself often wanting to see what date the original game came out... could we add this on the crack entries? So the release date of the crack and also releasedate of the original in a way... I think that would be great!
Your PAL
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bepp
Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 265 |
I second this wish =) Adding a field for game release date on crack entries would be a step towards detailing many of the cracks that still lack release date on CSDB.
Doing a cross-join with Gamebase or similar would be nice but more complicated I guess. From Gamebase, release *year* could be extracted - at best. Then again, Gamebase may contain several versions of a game and manual matching would have to be performed. |
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Mason
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 461 |
Problem is many cracks doesnt have any release date |
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bepp
Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 265 |
Quote: Problem is many cracks doesnt have any release date
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That's the root of the problem. And we're suggesting that by adding info on when the game was released, the release date of the crack can perhaps be deduced from that... not the exact day of course, but at least what year it was... |
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iAN CooG
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3187 |
You can only say that crack release date can't be less than the original game release date, a crack could have been released anywhere from that date, it's not of any help saying "somewhere after date xxyyzz". Also consider that many cracks were released before the game date due to leaked/stolen copies.
It's not helping deducting the real crack date at all. |
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The Overkiller
Account closed
Registered: Mar 2002
Posts: 342 |
And why it should be *so* useful anyway ?! |
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Moloch
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2925 |
I think CSDb will be better when the size of database goes down ... not up.
Delete release comments, cut down the amount of "credits", etc.
Let's not get carried away with feature creep and bloated with useless information. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11359 |
what moloch said. ppl even have a hard time to fill in the existing fields properly. that even includes some crackers and the releasedates of their cracks.
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BYB
Registered: Jan 2011
Posts: 20 |
what you are afraid of? A DB-Data overflow? ;) |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11359 |
no, we think adding even more crap on the pile is not the solution. especially if the initiating idea isnt "i want to add a whole lot of info to the database but cant, because..." but "i want to see this and that in the database and noone entered it for me". |
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BYB
Registered: Jan 2011
Posts: 20 |
in my opinion it would be enough to add the crack date, the release date ofcourse is often written in it's release itself;
like intro-scroller etc. |
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PAL
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 271 |
I just ment the date of the original game release from the software house. sorry, just thought that would be nice. |
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iAN CooG
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3187 |
Quote: in my opinion it would be enough to add the crack date, the release date ofcourse is often written in it's release itself;
like intro-scroller etc.
you wish, most of the times there isn't any |
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enthusi
Registered: May 2004
Posts: 677 |
everyone usually is free to add such information as crack-date or hour or mental state into trivia, no? |
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Slator
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 274 |
guess it is pretty much impossible to add the date of the official release date of a game, guess none put it to the books and you will have several dates for different countries etc. |
