[Request] Requesting platforms should also return their short name versions, like NES

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[Request] Requesting platforms should also return their short name versions, like NES #97

Open daophilac opened 4 years ago

daophilac commented 4 years ago

When requesting a platform, for example, to get the platform Nintendo Entertainment System with this url, we should see a field contains the value NES

Avasam commented 4 years ago

Since you're unlikely to see any change soon (I'm not sure if anyone's in charge of the API at the moment). As a workaround, you can create a mapping of all 126 platforms (or at least those you are interested in). If you feel like it, you could even to a bit of string manipulation to guess the shortnames (ex: stripping out the lowercases and spaces) for the consoles you didn't explicitely specify.