Open ihonen opened 2 years ago
My personal take:
I'd say that whatever the companies/groups call themselves (in media, documentation, etc.) is an adequate designation for them. Usually, for companies, this will be a short form of the full legal name of the company.
If some licensee has changed names since then, this could be indicated in a parenthetical or a footnote: "Ubisoft (Ubi Soft until 2003-09-09)".
I'd say that whatever the companies/groups call themselves (in media, documentation, etc.) is an adequate designation for them. Usually, for companies, this will be a short form of the full legal name of the company.
If some licensee has changed names since then, this could be indicated in a parenthetical or a footnote: "Ubisoft (Ubi Soft until 2003-09-09)".
I agree with this. We could even link the Wikipedia pages as that one will always point to an updated entry
+1 on the above, seems like consensus enough!
So, there are a bunch of issues with the list of new licensees in The Cartridge Header:
kss
-->KSS
,pow
-->Pow
etc.)Pack in soft
-->Pack-In-Soft
)Then there's the list of old licensees that is not yet in the Pan Docs at all (instead, it is linked to). It's a real mess, with the name of almost every licensee being incorrectly spelled for whatever reason.
Incorrect spelling is easy enough to fix, but in some cases the correct spelling is not trivial to establish. In particular, there are two policy decisions that need to be made:
Tokuma Shoten Intermedia
,Kemco Japan
,Sculptured Software
) or their colloquial names (Tokuma Shoten
,Kemco
,Sculptured
)?Ubi Soft
still exists but is now known asUbisoft
. On the other hand,Hi Tech Entertainment
no longer exists but used to be calledHi Tech Expressions
, and so on. Some companies may even have changed their names between the release of their first and last Game Boy games.I'll gladly fix the spellings once we are clear on how to tackle the issue.