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Standardize game genres in Sony Playstation and Sony Playstation 2?
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Description
Hi,
I noticed that game genres in dats for Sony Playstation 1 and Sony Playstation 2 are different from the rest of libretrodb, and even between games. For example, there are the following genres only there:
Beat'em Up / Fighting.
Beat'em Up.
Beat'em Up / Fighting
Beat'em up
While there is margin for a better classification system in the libretrodb, I think that for now, the best option is to just use the categories that other systems use.
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Review the Sony Playstation 1 and Sony Playstation 2 DAT files, then compare their genre values with those used by other systems in libretrodb. Normalize the inconsistent genre variants to the categories used elsewhere, and consider the work done when both systems use consistent genre values.
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- data
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
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