Author Topic: Reporting low quality Wii Sports cover  (Read 466 times)

December 09, 2019, 03:16:21 PM
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Stevoisiak

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Wii Sports currently has 19 covers. One of these sticks out as being fairly low quality, not meeting TCP's guidelines.

http://www.thecoverproject.net/view.php?cover_id=2651

* The screenshots seem to be low quality photos of a TV screen
* There is blank white space surrounding the top and bottom
* The image is stretched
* The colors are faded

Should low quality covers be removed? Or are older submissions grandfathered in?

December 11, 2019, 01:26:25 PM
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Wii Sports currently has 19 covers. One of these sticks out as being fairly extremely low quality, not meeting TCP's guidelines.
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Should low quality covers be removed? Or are older submissions grandfathered in?

This is normally a sore topic as scanners (the machines, not people) back when this site started were terrible and/or highly expensive for something "decent".  Up until say like... 5 years ago, great scanners have been more mainstream and their software (VueScan, etc) can provide far superior scans with the base settings than an old scanner could ever do.  *back story now complete*

That being said, yes.  There are some really terrible covers out there on TCP (and I mean some T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E covers), but we only have the one hosted.  I've seen the admins here be weary of removing the only cover as again, it's the only cover.

That being said, what you have found is more outside the norm.  There are indeed 19 Wii Sports covers, 13 of which are NTSC, and 1 of which is an instant reject from today's approval process.

TLDR: I'm with you on this is as this is a unique case where there are many other covers that meet the standards and this one should be removed.

December 11, 2019, 04:06:57 PM
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For some reason, I thought we COULDN'T remove covers, and the poor quality covers that were hosted before the current standards were put in place are just stuck there forever.  Maybe I'm wrong on that.
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December 12, 2019, 04:17:26 AM
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For some reason, I thought we COULDN'T remove covers, and the poor quality covers that were hosted before the current standards were put in place are just stuck there forever.  Maybe I'm wrong on that.
Actually you are correct.
We cannot delete covers but we can replace the shit ones with perfect ones if someone makes one.

January 07, 2020, 10:07:07 AM
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I can delete covers... I don't expose that capability to anyone else for security reasons
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