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Ideas / Suggestions

0. Disclaimer

This project was created and maintained in the creators' free time and is not affiliated with any organization. As such, the creators have full autonomy over its development and maintenance. While opinions and suggestions are welcome, there is no obligation to implement any changes. The creators reserve the right to prioritize tasks and make decisions based on their personal interests and availability. It is important to note that this project may not be updated frequently or at all, and there is no set timeline for implementing any changes that are suggested. The project is offered as-is, and users are encouraged to reach out to the creator with any questions or concerns.

  • All the contents of the website are published under a Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 and you can (re)-use them without any kind of permission while you respect the terms of the license.
  • To make the creation of derived projects easier, the whole contents of the database (sagas, games, and versions) will be periodically published in the form of some CSVs files (work in progress).

Below you have a list of common suggestions with the current answer. Feel free to add new suggestions or comment the already existing ones in the feedback forum. I'll link them from this page when possible:

1. NO

Graphical emoticons in the forum

I don't see them in serious places like Wikipedia, so... NO, and for those cases you really need to use them, old-school ASCII emoticons in bold should be enough ;)

WYSIWYG editor

Extra complication for (almost) no reason. The DB entries (sagas, games, versions) use plain text, so they don't need any kind of WYSIWYG editor. The mark-up of the forum is really simple and contains only a dozen of tags while the average user only use 3-4 for most posts. So, for web maintenance simplicity and avoid screen clutter, no WYSIWYG editor in ROMdb.

Open social media accounts for ROMdb

The only goal of the website is to create meta-data for videogame ROMs and the means in the website are enough to fulfill the requirements while keeping the focus on the important topics.

Mobile/small-screen version of the web

ROMdb offers, probably, too much information, specially in the form of tables. That's something very difficult to translate to small screen device and in case it was possible, it would require too much time to be done. So, sorry but don't expect such version (and I hope you enjoy the normal screen size, normal pointing device version and you continue supporting us ;)

2. MAYBE

Include system X

Is there any serious cataloging project for that system? Do they double-check their dumps? are they accurate to the real data stored in the original media? Do they avoid scene-dumps, warez and so on? Do they publish a standard ClrMamePro or XML dat file? If the answer to all those questions is yes, SURE. Actually it's quite easy to add a new system to the website (apart from MAME which is in the to-do list because it's not that straightforward due to the big size of their dat).

Add DLCs to the database

Yes, eventually, if the website manages to survive until serious cataloguing projects appear for DLCs. Something to discuss is if they require a new type of item (so the final structure of the database would be Saga > Game > Version > DLC) or they can be simply added as a new field for the versions. Are there different versions (depending on the country, for example) of the same DLC? are there any region exclusive or region locked DLC?

Anyway, so far (September 2017) redump.org hasn't covered yet the first consoles to receive DLCs (Xbox 360 and PS3), and having a .dat file is mandatory before adding any system to ROMdb.

3. YES

(nothing so far)