Thread:Ultrasonic9000/@comment-27441478-20161204050217/@comment-27441478-20161205123458

Luma.dash wrote: In short, the emulator thing is always the second option even if it is recommended. Thats funny, because I originally think it is for the best interest of quality and proffessionalism to make emulators first, then consoles second (unless Emulatation for particular game for video or image capture is unavailable or itself not up to quality in developement). Depending on both game and console in question, it gives new users a way to take proper screen shots or video of things which can not be scanned or similar. FOr emulation, all one has to do is Ctrl + PrntScreen and its all good, the higher resolution the monitor the better. The reason I brought this up is because of this (a cut from the CoD Policy which I spend most time on):



Here, I dont want inexperiences people doing something like that which causes cancer to my eyes (and other's eyes) since they are unaware of the methods able to capture it, as many consoles and older ones dont have the ability of proper screen or video capture. In this case, Emulators are not only a must, but be primary, with consoles being secondary. An exception to this would be developer blog/demo of a game or content before its release which is not available on the released version of the media. In this case the reduction in both clarity and quality is justifiable.

Luma.dash wrote: The videos MUSTN'T be all 1080p or higher, as videos taken from dreamcast or gamecube games (sixth generation consoles) cannot reach that. Just videos for the seventh generation consoles and forward can be a must, and videos from emulators are acceptable for all games and you can say more suitable for us, but do not include the 60fps thing on the videos as it is not that necessary and does not play a role.

That depends. For example, the Wii is locked at native 480p. The example video of Sweet Mountain gameplay is recorded on Dolphin Emulator with a 60FPS Hack and a 1920s1080p upscale which the original console lacked. The content within as well as gameplay has no changed from the original; only difference is higher quality. Nothing more and nothing less.

In cases where such options are unavailable for capture, the highest quality obtainable by the emulator should suffice. If not, then record or capture from consoles and not PC emulators should be justifiable in their raw form.

Luma.dash wrote: By the way, I don't remember we have allowed for interview videos This is an interesting thing which I bought up because I think interview videos with Official staff members or game developer/publishers would be extremely worthwhile and beneifical since it provides primary-source information straight off the bat. Of course, people have been known to reference from the video for information but then we wouldnt be able to cut out the middle man.

I had videos of interviews of both Sega/Sonic Team and Archie staff members regarding their roles, biographical information there with this in mind but UltraSonic had them deleted without reason provided. The Sonic Wikia policy lists next to nothing regarding video, or the type of video allowed, only images.

...and also if you add that videos for episodes are prohibited on the episodes pages, that will be clearer. haha, yeah well, no crap, I haven't seen other fan Wikias do that nor do Wikipedia. In such a case there is not enough reason to justify a 'fair use' alibi. For comic books I have seen people upload snippets of 5 pages of the beginning of the comic and discarding the rest which seems reasonable. Sega and affiliates have yet to come kicking down our door over such a thing so I guess its okay with them.

Luma, since there is so much to discuss, we should begin from the top and work our way down and get image/art out of the way first. Once an agreement is made between a few people then I will right down a draft. We will discuss things further down later.

It would be much more convenient for the Wikia policy to be editable by anyone other than just admins. Take at look at the CoD Wikia Policy which has remained open for edit to everyone and they dont seem to every have a problem. If so, they just auto-revert it and act as if its just another day.