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[Gigablah]

Or just Original Video, if you don't want the "animation" bit.

Or abbreviate everything: OVA / D2V.

[Phonograph]

the thing you could make is:
when you choose animation (for example), only animation choices appears in the platforms menu (same with game)

but in that case, that platform menu should be inactive and active after choosing the classification option

edit: also, related albums should only show albums related to the products classification
because having a mix between game and animation when the album is for anime (when there is one classification, for more classification choices, the related albums section could be remade later)

[Gigablah]

Something that was brought up in chat: Both movies and series can be in OVA / D2V format.

But still, we're not going for an elaborate taxonomy here, so we might as well just follow whatever established format other sites have come up with. By the way, ANN has the following categories: TV Series, Movie, OAV, ONA (???) and Omnibus.

[Secret Squirrel]

Yeah, my fear is that OVA is redundant. It still seems like it is just an alternate distribution method for a series or movie, aside from Dag's explanation that the budgets and scopes generally lie in between those two.

I think we are going to see more commercial web releases in the future, and those could also run the gamut between movie and series in format. However, ANN has the OVA category, so it might be an important distinction. Anyway, I renamed this back to OVA.

Originally Posted by Phonograph

the thing you could make is:
when you choose animation (for example), only animation choices appears in the platforms menu (same with game)

We definitely should do this.

[Phonograph]

Originally Posted by Gigablah

... Omnibus.

that category can be forgotten or franchised (I think it's like that one)

[Cedille]

It's possible that we have to divide "PC-88" into variations. The later consoles had upgraded sound chips, and for retro game soundtracks , it's sometimes explicitly mentioned from which consoles an album is recorded.

Sorcerian was released over multiple PC-88 consoles (PC-88SR, PC-88VA) for instance and soundtracks from both consoles have been released (even until today...).

[Secret Squirrel]

How many different sound variations are there for the PC-88?

We may have a similar issue with PCs back in the old days, when there were different sound cards (Roland, Adlib, SB) that all produced different sounds. Although, there weren't many PC-game soundtracks released in those days.

[Cedille]

Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel

How many different sound variations are there for the PC-88?Although, there weren't many PC-game soundtracks released in those days.

I have zero knowledge on this and perhaps somebody else deep in retro game music community (e.g. hoot) could clarify it better, but according to my brief research, two sound chips were basically used for the PC-88 series, with some optional sound cards. So perhaps if we're to add a PC-88 variation without making our listbox chaotic, dividing it two 2 categories is reasonable. My suggestion is NEC PC-88(OPN), NEC PC-88(OPNA) (alternative is NEC PC-88(YM2203), NEC PC-88(YM2608)). We can hold off addition until we look into soundtrack of the days more finely, of course. Not sure how many there would be, besides Sorcerian.

[Fearin]

Does the PC reference cover most OS's like Mac, Linux, Windows, etc?