moho_00 Curator Backer Posts: 6844 Registered: 6/10/2011
moho_00
# 1 - Posted on 11/12/2017 0:56:00

This weekend's release brings with it the infrastructure for curators to upload box art that's specific to a platform, region, and format (i.e. physical or digital). Up until now, every game on the site would always be displayed with the same "generic" box art, regardless what platform / region / format ("PRF") you specify in your collection. But no more! If we've entered the appropriate box art for your "PRF" combo, you will now see it when viewing your collection. Otherwise, you'll continue to see the "generic" box art. This should be a seamless change and you'll just gradually see things look more accurate over time. At this time, the box art changes are only available on the Collection Search page.

As you can imagine, there is a huge amount of time required to find and upload all of this box art, in addition to entering other game details. So please be patient with us as we make our way through everything!

Our approach is to tackle a single "PRF" at a time so it can be complete. We will likely be focused on North American releases for a while since that's what we're mostly familiar with. We will also be focused on physical releases since those tend to differ the most compared to digital.

For now, I can tell you I'm about 80% of the way finished with North American Sega Saturn releases, so if you have any games on that platform / region, your box art should look much better now! I plan to have it completed by the end of the weekend

If you have any questions, issues, or feedback, please let me know!

Post Edited on 11/12/2017 1:00:37
elko84 Curator Backer Posts: 372 Registered: 5/6/2017
elko84
# 2 - Posted on 11/16/2017 17:26:16

How does one become a curator to help add images or add release dates to lots of the games that still say unreleased? I'd love to help out.

moho_00 Curator Backer Posts: 6844 Registered: 6/10/2011
moho_00
# 3 - Posted on 1/11/2018 23:03:34

If anyone is interested in helping out with collecting this data, feel free to post here with what platforms you're most familiar with. There's a lot of data to collect and time is limited, so we're hoping the community might be able to help out here

We're currently focusing on North American releases, but if we have any experts for other regions, let us know that too!

NLouns Curator Posts: 11 Registered: 1/14/2018
oddest_ood
# 4 - Posted on 1/20/2018 5:50:38

Hey! I really like this site and I'd be incredibly happy if I could help it in any way. I'm most familiar with Xbox 360 and Xbox One releases and dabble a bit in Original Xbox games (North America).

merph518 Curator Posts: 192 Registered: 4/21/2017
merph518
# 5 - Posted on 1/22/2018 15:09:41

This is very cool. I just wish I could use it on my profile page more... like for playthroughs, the playlist, stacks, etc.

elko84 Curator Backer Posts: 372 Registered: 5/6/2017
elko84
# 6 - Posted on 2/1/2018 8:26:27

North American releases here. You can see my collection on here it's a mixture of quite a few systems. I use another program to manage my collection as a backup and have put in the time to collect box cover images for games on each console. I'd be happy to help contribute them to the site.

moho_00 Curator Backer Posts: 6844 Registered: 6/10/2011
moho_00
# 7 - Posted on 2/10/2018 12:14:40

With the latest update, the platform / region box art should now be showing up on the Wish List, Playthrough, and Completion sections.

ZotoBoto Posts: 13 Registered: 4/29/2018
zotobom
# 8 - Posted on 5/1/2018 12:00:21

I hope this is still the right place, but I definitely wouldn't mind helping the site out as a 'Curator'! Personally most familiar with PC but I dabble with Xbox 360, Playstation 3, 3DS and Nintendo DS too.