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Allow tracking for homebrew games
Lots of "homebrew" developers have given older consoles an afterlife by developing and releasing games through web sites such as AtariAge.com long after the platform was officially withdrawn from the market. I would love to be able to add my homebrew collection to my pricecharting profile. While these releases are more difficult to track, that makes it all the more important and useful to have them registered with Pricecharting.
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I foresee a number of problems with this:
1) This could be used by developers to essentially print money by producing "rare" homebrews for years to come.
2) This could be used by developers to rip off collectors by creating more copies of a collectible homebrew that becomes expensive. For example, a really good homebrew is being bought/sold for $1000+; so the developer decides to manufacture a few more, just to pay the bills. This would be equivalent to Bandai saying, today, they're going to produce more copies of Stadium Events for the NES. How would owners of Stadium Events feel? Probably pretty pissed. What's preventing Bandai from doing this? It's copyright infringement; they can produce Stadium Events, but not for the NES (Nintendo has copyright to the NES cartridge and prohibits this).
The same logic applies to why reproductions shouldn't have a value on a website that provides prices to collectors (except reproductions are copyright infringement x 2).
Are you serous? Not one developer designs a game based on it's collectable value. They design games because it's something they enjoy. Your precious collection wouldn't be affected at all. An this is about Homebrew games, not reproductions. The developers that do it right use all new parts. You're arguement has no merit. Games are worth something when they are rare and in demand. So it doesn't matter if 50 small developers release 30 copies if their game. If very few people know nor care about it, still worth nothing.
it's funny because there's Pier Solar (homebrew) listed in the Genesis games, but I don't see others like Flappy or Zippy the Porcupine for the Atari 2600 - either add (at least) the most famous homebrews (like Watermelon's, AtariAge's) or remove them altogether
There is nothing preventing you to add home-brew games for supported platforms. Values will be populated as soon as there are eBay sales.
(Or maybe you are asking to add a completely separate cross-platform category "home-brew"? -- I am not sure that would be a good idea...)
Yes, please do add any homebrew titles to the site. Please add [Homebrew] to the end of the title so people know what it is and add a release date so people can filter out unlicensed stuff released after the console was discontinued. Some people only want complete collections of licensed games.
I'm going to close this request though because people can add these to the site.
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Yes, please do add any homebrew titles to the site. Please add [Homebrew] to the end of the title so people know what it is and add a release date so people can filter out unlicensed stuff released after the console was discontinued. Some people only want complete collections of licensed games.
I'm going to close this request though because people can add these to the site.