Nds-bootstrap: [Offtopic] Compatibility list has been vandalized

Created on 21 Jun 2018  路  7Comments  路  Source: DS-Homebrew/nds-bootstrap

Hi, sorry for using github for this issue, but seems that only four games are still present on the Rom compatibility table.

Probably someone with full access didn't know how to use it, or simply wanted to do some griefing.

Personal opinions: this isn't the first time that something like this happens, but since we need to keep the list updated after the recent progress, here is my proposal:
someone could make a public Google form for semi-automatize the process of adding informations; some fields can be hard-coded (example:release numbers, title ID, Name of the game, NTR/TWL mode, status-color-scheme, release number) and some other can be open (description, bugs, final notes, made by). Every entry should be authenticated, adding a new game to the list should be done with a manual request, and, if possible, a history of compatibility should be maintained.

Sorry for the long post, but it was an urgent issue, and I hope that my suggestions will make maintaining the list more easy and faster.

Help Wanted

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~did you check the tabs at the bottom of the doc? seems like everything has been categorized somewhat (idk though, don't know what it looked like before)~

Edit: nevermind

the old list is useless now anyway

Help are welcome Valeri0p and personally I do not want to spend time on this (I have very limited time available and I focus on dev). Would you been able to implement such proposal?

Can say this, While it's sad it got vandalized. It's really outdated. You can see this in the fact the New Super Mario Bros DS. Demo version now works on latest build which is awesome by the way. It does have some sound crackling however.

I believe (per discussion on discord) this was an intentional purge, as the compatibility suddenly went through the roof the old list was deemed basically worthless.

Yeah, I've decided to clear the compatibility list, since most of it was outdated.

Thanks for clearing this misunderstanding, but can you please leave the old list in another read-only tab, both for reference on how should should be done and for legacy?

About the automatic submission system, it seems that Google already has some integration between froms and spreadsheets, but for something like that we'll probably need to make some .gs scripts, which I don't know a lot about...

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