Wii U manuals

[Raidou]

Having recently started buying Wii U games, two things have come to my attention:

1) Games don't have physical manuals (), but often have "Software Quick Guides" which is a foldout sheet with basic control info and nothing else.  Should these be classed as Extra Media (which is what I have been doing) or should they be treated as Manuals?

2) The 3 Australian games I own use Eco-Box cases (holes in the front and back, very flimsy), whereas the 1 European game I own does not.  Are these Eco-Box cases standard issue in other countries/regions?

[Shadow Kisuragi]

I don't know man...I just work here. 

There aren't many staff members with WiiU consoles. Maybe Bickman would know, but might be worth asking Ryudo, Link or a few of the other Nintendo guys. For the "staff" slant, I would say that if you would consider that a manual, we'll add it as a manual...but I think that's just an insert like the classic PC inserts had for keyboard shortcuts. Manuals should probably be empty.

[techwizard]

that's also similar to the quick reference cards that many n64 games had, which weren't considered manuals

[NES_Rules]

Are all WiiU games like this, or is this only for certain publishers? If its every game, I say we just use the guides as manuals. Seems kind of odd to have an empty manual image and then an extra media image for every game.

[blcklblskt]

FWIW, PS4 games don't have manuals as well.  I submitted this in the manual slot, mainly because I think not having the manual slot red on the game page looks ugly.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Technically, it would be very easy for me to enable/disable manuals per console...just saying.

[kaysow]

yeah, i've been treating the "manual"-section as a slot for instructions, so if there's no booklet to submit i've used some single-sheet instructions and foldouts, like so - http://www.rfgeneration.c...nfo.pl?ID=E-202-S-00211-A
don't think it's a good idea to disable it outright tho, some publishers will probably still print 'em. "Instructions" instead of "Manual" maybe..?

[techwizard]

i'm not sure submitting the little quick instruction guides under manuals is such a great idea, because then it could cause confusion over what goes in the manual slot on other consoles that do have real manuals.

[kaysow]

i'm with blcklblskt; it just messed with my ocd to have a perfectly good slot greyed out =) but yeah, that could also cause concern for someone who picks that game up expecting a booklet and finding just an insert.
makes you wonder what constitutes a "manual" tho; how about a 4-page folded sheet?

[techwizard]

i'm with blcklblskt; it just messed with my ocd to have a perfectly good slot greyed out =) but yeah, that could also cause concern for someone who picks that game up expecting a booklet and finding just an insert.
makes you wonder what constitutes a "manual" tho; how about a 4-page folded sheet?

for me it's just a quick setup or installation guide. the biggest argument against it being a manual is that usually on those guides it says "for complete instructions see manual on disc [or website]", most of the time they clearly say this isn't a full manual and we have another one somewhere else.

[kaysow]

yeah, i'll gather those entries for the "images needing to be moved"-thread later. think it's mostly PC and Wii U titles.

[Duke.Togo]

Technically, it would be very easy for me to enable/disable manuals per console...just saying.

I'm curious to know if there could be something in the DB when adding a game that would allow you to pick N/A for something like a manual which would then make that field "grayed out" when adding games to your collection or for media scans.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Technically, it would be very easy for me to enable/disable manuals per console...just saying.

I'm curious to know if there could be something in the DB when adding a game that would allow you to pick N/A for something like a manual which would then make that field "grayed out" when adding games to your collection or for media scans.

Easily - would be the same change and just hooking it up to a couple new pages via a new parameter in a SQL query.

[bickman2k]

Not every game has just a digital manual/keyboard shortcut sheet. There are several I own that have actual manuals.

[Raidou]

Not every game has just a digital manual/keyboard shortcut sheet. There are several I own that have actual manuals.

This makes me very happy- I started to despair when Super Mario 3D World didn't have one.