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Jace HallSeasons greetings to all!
Holiday is coming up soon and this will provide me some time to work on TG matters and decisions.
I've been digesting all of the issues and various suggestions surrounding the whole EMU organization issue and I think there is a reasonable approach to take but before I work to implement I wanted to run it by the community for analysis and further suggestion.
@timmell and others have suggested that platforms essentially be broken up into two categories with tracks listed separately for each:
1) Original Hardware
2.) EMU / Other
I think we can accomplish that.
Here is what would actually happen -
We would need @admin staff and his team to auto create an EMU / Other category that appears in the drop down of every main platform listing.
Then all the tracks (just the tracks and rules, not the scores) that are currently under the main platform listing would be duplicated over to the EMU / Other category that is listed for that platform, This would allow members be able to submit without having to recreate the same tracks all over again.
Now there is some complexity here because some platforms have EMU Tracks listed underneath them already with scores, and they would have to be detected (manually or programmatically) and moved over to their EMU / Other category.
There are also likely some very special cases to consider.
It could be a fair amount of work and take some time to do this, but once completed there would be a clear and consistent place / method for original hardware submissions and non-original hardware submissions across the entire database.
If a particular EMU type begins to overly dominate a mixed EMU track for some reason of and starts needing its own official platform separation (like MAME or Flashback) then we can break that EMU type out and move those scores to that newly created specific EMU platform category. We may not need to do this, but it would at least be an option.
Does this make sense and should we work on this?
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