04-29-2018, 05:16 PM
(04-29-2018, 04:08 PM)ZetTheLegendaryHero Wrote: Would it be possible to make subcategories for some of the consoles? For example, you would have the PC / Computer main category and subcategories like MS-DOS, Linux, Mac OS / OSX, Windows, Multiple OSes. Another example would be Mobile section being the Mobile main section and subcategories like Java ME and Android / iOS. I think for some of the more broader consoles that span many different platforms and many years this could help.
It's where it gets a bit hairy, there aren't as many games on Macs or Linux computers as they are on Windows and that would affects the sections here. (Its why many Linux people and some Mac owners also play with emulation to get their game fix) The PC section would end up something like 85% Windows, 10% MS-DOS and last 5% for Mac and Linux. It could also cause some bias where people would rip a different computer version because they don't like the others.
Also there are a lot of cases where the different computer versions share the same assets, where a Windows version has the same graphics as say a Linux or a Mac version. No matter which OS you have the files are the same. They might also share assets with the PC-98 in Japan for the Windows 95 era. Some late MS-DOS and early Windows games share the same assets too, not every game got an enhanced version. Only the really older computers have a distinction and even then its often the same computer just with a different graphics mode. Macs were different though because the early ones were black and white.
Mobile section though you do have a point since Android/iOS and J2ME mobile games do have a clear split with only the last batch of the latter share with the early iOS games, Sonic Runners Adventure aside. Some might argue that Android/iOS are more than just phones but tablets, sticks and set top boxes.
The only section on tSR where it might be possible to split is the Atari section since that has the Atari 2600, 5200, 7800 and the Atari 8-bit computer range all clumped together. Then again some might argue that apart from the 2600 and the 8-bit range, there isn't enough games for the other two consoles and much of the 5200 versions also share graphics with the 8-bit versions. Then there's the 7800 has backwards compatibility with the 2600. I think that was the reason why the Genesis, 32X and Sega CD were all merged because the latter need the former to work.