Homebrew in the Collection Database?

[blissfulnoise]

Couple of quick questions following CGE...

Are homebrew, original games acceptable for submission into the games database?  What about reproductions?

[Tynstar]

Homebrews yes we already have a few in the database. Repros I say no.

[Tan]

Pending approval of our content director (Tynstar) maybe this will work for everyone:

If you owned a repro and not the original, I'd say add the repro info as Game Trivia to the original game page, and any scans you may have of it as Extra Media. That way you could add it to your collection list if you chose and make a note that you had a repro copy.

As long as it's a licensed reproduction of course.

[blissfulnoise]

The repro idea should work fine then.  The ones in question would be some of the NES repros done based off of translated ROMs and/or dumped Protos (Earthbound, Dracs Night Out, Sweet Home, etc.)

I'll submit some of the homebrews I picked up the old fashioned way.

Thanks!

[Rajaat the Warbringer]

Rather than make a new topic, it seems like this question would fit well here.

Should homebrew really be listed as the genre for a homebrew game? The only example I've seen (as it's the only one I own) is Beggar Prince. It's listed as homebrew, then RPG as the sub-genre. But homebrew isn't really a genre.

[Tan]

Rather than make a new topic, it seems like this question would fit well here.

Should homebrew really be listed as the genre for a homebrew game? The only example I've seen (as it's the only one I own) is Beggar Prince. It's listed as homebrew, then RPG as the sub-genre. But homebrew isn't really a genre.

The reason being is so collectors can distinguish the homebrews from the "official" releases. Look at the Atari 2600 as an example, we have 46 homebrews listed in that section alone, 122 across the databases in total.

The idea is that those who don't feel that homebrews are worthy of owning, or those wanting a complete library for a system, can separate these from their lists.

Homebrew is a genre because it's a type of software. Edutainment and Non-Game aren't really genres either but they are descriptive of the software they represent. Think of genre less as a gameplay description and more of a software description.