NinDB - Errors and Omissions

[Grandy02]

www.nindb.net/nes.html
Euro release for Yoshi still marked as unknown.
For any other game with unknown Euro release, the years from the SSBB chronicle could be used if avaialable, don't you think?

www.nindb.net/mother-2.html
Japanese title Mother 2: Gyiyg Strikes Back is missing.

www.nindb.net/yakuman-ds.html
Maybe this game also fits in the Mario series? I think it is more Mario themed than Mario's Picross, which has just Mario and a few Mario series icons and puzzles, while this one features the common Mario cast.

www.nindb.net/wario-land.html
Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 is the proper Western title (the currently displayed title is the Japanese one).

www.nindb.net/yoshis-story.html
Japanese title is simply Yoshi Story.

www.nindb.net/wario-land-3.html
Japanese version has a subtitle: 不思議なオルゴール ... the translator puts out "(The) Mysterious Music Box" - makes sense.

www.nindb.net/wario-land-4.html
Again, this comes with a subtitle in Japan: ヨーキのお宝 ... the translator says "(The) Treasure of Yōki" - Yōki (dunno if it is Yoki, Youki, or Yorki) appears to be the Japanese name of the Golden Diva.

www.nindb.net/master-of-illusion.html
Full Euro title is Magic Made Fun: Perform Tricks That Will Amaze Your Friends!.

www.nindb.net/super-smash-bros_series.html
At the Japanese titles of all three games: While it is just "Bros." in the West, it seems that the word "Brothers" is written out in Japanese materials (like in Band Brothers), as seen in the logos of the following sites:
www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nalj/smash/flash/index.html
www.smashbros.com/jp/

www.nindb.net/kirby-air-ride.html
Japanese title is Kirby's Air Ride (or Kirby's Airride as it was written on the box).

www.nindb.net/pokemon-mini.html
No Euro release for Shock Tetris and intro says that Europe only saw four games, while the game page tells about a release dated "unknown."

www.nindb.net/gamecube.html
Hyphen in "Chibi Robo!" is missing.

[nocturnal YL]

Aug 16, 2009 18:19:24 GMT -5 Fryguy64 said:

Yes, I got tons of emails about it. All from some guy called "Corey Woods", whoever that may be

"Corey Woods". How nostalgic of a name =P

Aug 16, 2009 18:19:24 GMT -5 Fryguy64 said:

Seriously though, aside from these forums, I only had one guy email me in the past year asking what was happening with the entire site. And that guy used to email me every week complaining that I hadn't added the latest releases...

That made me a bit sad

I think it's time for you to put some effort to make NinDB known to the world again!

[Grandy02]

Once again:

www.nindb.net/donkey-kong_series.html
www.nindb.net/donkey-kong-3.html
www.nindb.net/donkey-kong-circus.html
G&W Tabletop Donkey Kong Jr. and G&W Donkey Kong 3 both link to G&W Donkey Kong on the DK series page. G&W DK3 is only linked by the G&W games list, it is not linked by the pages of Donkey Kong 3 (original) and Donkey Kong Circus.

www.nindb.net/kirby-64.html
Japanese title Kirby of the Stars 64 is missing.

www.nindb.net/chibi-robo_series.html
Introduction lacks the hyphen in Chibi-Robo two times. The third game links to the second game, Park Patrol, instead.

www.nindb.net/pokemon-xd.html
Japanese title is "Pokémon XD: Whirlwind of Darkness Dark Lugia" as given by Wikipedia.

www.nindb.net/gamecube.html
Hyphen in Chibi-Robo! is missing, WarioWare game has to be spelled "WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Games!". And I've actually seen Gamecube much more commonly written as "GameCube".

www.nindb.net/star-fox.html
PAL title is usually spelled Starwing, as far as I know.

www.nindb.net/game-boy-advance.html
Full WarioWare title is WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames!.

www.nindb.net/luigis-mansion.html
Japanese title is simply Luigi Mansion.

www.nindb.net/wii-sports.html
Should be noted that the game is NOT packed in with Wii consoles in Japan.

www.nindb.net/game-and-watch.html
Pinball links to the NES game.

[Fryguy64]

Grandy, I really appreciate how thorough you are being with these errors, but you need to step back and think about what you're sending before clicking that "Post Reply" button, or you're just going to get on my nerves.

For example:

Aug 19, 2009 5:42:10 GMT -5 Grandy02 said:

And I've actually seen Gamecube much more commonly written as "GameCube".

Well, I've more commonly seen it written as Gamecube. So we cancel each other out. This is NOT an error.

PAL title is usually spelled Starwing, as far as I know.

Starfox, StarFox, Star Fox, Starwing, StarWing, Star Wing... there's no consistency in Nintendo's own use of these names, so I have adopted the same naming convention that I did for Star Fox. This is NOT an error.

Japanese title is simply Luigi Mansion.

I am not including the Japanese names where there's minor difference between the Japanese and English name (e.g. Luigi's Mansion / Luigi Mansion). This is intentional.

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I said the same thing to YoungLink when he was sending me every little typo he came across way back in the old days. The content of the game pages is much more important to get right. I really don't consider a missing hyphen or a missing exclamation mark here and there to be a worthwhile error... at least not right now when I still have so much work left to do on the main site.

At the moment, I want to ensure links are pointing where they're supposed to point (so thanks for catching a few that slipped through the net), make sure all the alternate titles up, get the cameos online, update old content, keep the site up to date, and most importantly try to enjoy working on the site again.

I can't do that by pandering to the minority whose obsession over minutiae borders on autistic...

[Grandy02]

Aug 19, 2009 6:32:03 GMT -5 Fryguy64 said:

Grandy, I really appreciate how thorough you are being with these errors, but you need to step back and think about what you're sending before clicking that "Post Reply" button, or you're just going to get on my nerves.

Okay, sorry, understand. I hope I didn't annoy you too much.

There can't be many missing alternate titles left, but just spotted these here:

www.nindb.net/pokemon-channel.html
Japanese version has the subtitle "Together With Pikachu!".

www.nindb.net/my-pokemon-ranch.html
Everyone's Pokémon Ranch in Japanese (hope the difference isn't too minor).

www.nindb.net/pokemon-trozei.html
Euro title is Pokémon Link!. And add an !.

www.nindb.net/pokemon-tcg.html
Japanese title is Pokémon Card GB.

[Fryguy64]

Just thought I'd nip it in the bud before it got out of control

I've been slowly making the changes listed in this board, and I'll go through these links tonight and make a start on SFC/SNES cameos as well.

[Deleted]

www.nindb.net/nintendo-puzzle-collection.html

It is possible to connect Nintendo Puzzle Collection to the Game Boy Advance using the Gamecube-GBA Link Cable. You can download versions of each game to the Game Boy Advance, including the NES versions of Dr. Mario and Yoshi's Cookie, plus a basic versions of Panel de Pon. The games are stored on the Game Boy Advance memory until the system is shut down.

Should be

www.nindb.net/nintendo-puzzle-collection.html

It is possible to connect Nintendo Puzzle Collection to the Game Boy Advance using the Gamecube-GBA Link Cable. You can download versions of each game to the Game Boy Advance, including the NES versions of Dr. Mario and Yoshi's Cookie, plus a basic version of Panel de Pon. The games are stored on the Game Boy Advance memory until the system is shut down.

"plus a basic versions"

has been changed to

"plus a basic version"

[Fryguy64]

Dude, you could have just linked the page once, written out that one sentence that was wrong, and bolded the bit that needs fixing. I'm sure I'd have worked it out

Thanks though!

[nocturnal YL]

Seriously.... all those just to tell Fry to delete a single letter?

I might have done it excessively in the past, but at this moment it's not as important. Meh.

[Grandy02]

Aug 20, 2009 3:40:41 GMT -5 nocturnal YL said:

Seriously.... all those just to tell Fry to delete a single letter?

I might have done it excessively in the past, but at this moment it's not as important. Meh.

Be happy that I only checked the spelling of game titles and not any typos in the game descriptions.

[Old Man Rupee]

Talking about spelling mistakes:

On the Detective Club series page:
"You play as an orpaned boy"

On the Another Code R page:
"she came her with her mother 13 years ago"

In the description of the Art Syle game Base 10:
"You can to clear a certain number"
should be "you have to"

[Dances in Undergarments]

Don't worry fry, I'm on this:

Aug 21, 2009 2:19:47 GMT -5 Old Man Rupee said:

On the Another Code R page:
"she came with her mother 13 years ago"

Oh so fixed.

[eadninja]

Hey Fry. Check your email!!

[Grandy02]

www.nindb.net/kirbys-adventure.html
Japanese title of GBA remake is Kirby of the Stars: Fountain of Dreams Deluxe.

[eadninja]

(1)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EAD_Ninja

Check out some stuff I did on wikipedia. I basically got an up to date description of the current Nintendo breakdown. It also has a 100% accurate listing of what development teams worked on what games. Of course it is incomplete.

(2)
Couple of small errors I saw was one on English Training, Plato did not develop the game, but rather Nintendo Software Development & Design (the brain-age team). Plato was the original developer of the translation software which was sold for personal computers in Japan. The credits show all NIntendo as the developers of the DS game and Platfo as advisers only. I also don't think Sanseido developed the DS dictionary games. Again, often Nintendo includes copyrights because of its licensing a database or copyright not because that is the actual developer.

(3)
On the deveveloper listings I would include it in a list vertical format rather than a horizontal developer/developer format. There are alot of Nintendo games that have 3 developers.

(4)
Super Smash Bros Brawl being one of them. Technically Sora is being listed as the developer, but the only Sora employee involved in the game is Masahiro Sakurai. Maybe the female receptionist is included in the special thanks as well =P. But in the actual development credits you can spot multiple employees for

1) Game Arts
2) Nintendo EAD
3) Monolith Software
4) Hal Laboratory

Not too mention the 20 recruits Nintendo hired for this project. Probably now working on the Project-Sora game. Also the several Nintendo and non-Nintendo musicians hired for the game as well.