Currently we publish GB movies made in GBC or GBA mode under the GB platform. This makes sense as they are still GB/DMG games, despite being run on a newer console with some hardware differences.
I think we should publish SGB runs under the GB platform as well. These are also original GB games, only with added HLE functions to appear as they would on a Super Game Boy. Besides this, having SGB separate causes confusion with duplicate Game entries, namely for the following games:
- Castlevania Legends (GB, SGB)
- Crayon Shin-Chan 4 (GB, SGB)
- Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions (GB, SGB)
- Donkey Kong (GB, SGB)
- Donkey Kong Land 2 (GB, SGB)
- Kirby's Dream Land 2 (GB, SGB)
- Mega Man V (GB, SGB)
- Pocket Monsters Green (GB, SGB)
- Pokémon Blue (GB, SGB)
- Pokémon Red (GB, SGB)
Each of these is a single game on a single cartridge, but with two distinct game entries. This confuses visitors to the site, bloats the Game Select list, and wastes Game entries that could be
repurposed as other Games. It would be more simple and sensible to merge each SGB entry into its GB counterpart. The rest of the SGB games could also be moved over with a simple platform ID change:
Donkey Kong Land III,
Power Rangers: The Movie,
Mole Mania,
Tetris Blast,
Ultraman Ball, and
Wario Land II.
This wouldn't change the acceptability or visibility of these runs. Encodes for the seven currently published SGB runs would not need to change, as they do not include "SGB" in the text printed on the video by the publisher. Once the platform ID is updated to i.e. "GB Mole Mania", any TVC YouTube video titles will update as well.
Now is a good time to make such a change, as the site
redesign is underway, and there's
a submission on the Workbench aiming to clarify rules on SGB runs.
Thoughts?