Prerelease talk:Nintendogs

Post-Japan Prerelease

Personally I think anything pre-final from media about that region's respective releases deserves to be covered on this page also. --ChainSwordCS (talk) 23:07, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Also I'm personally interested in covering the South Korean and especially the Chinese versions' translation development, but information is very hard to come by, believe me. ChainSwordCS (talk) 10:04, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Screenshots

Just wanted to say here that I'm currently in the process of organizing screenshots. There is at least one instance of a screenshot being identical DS-wise... But there are four unique versions of the screenshot with various levels of JPEG compression. I'm not sure how to resolve this for now. At any rate, more research is currently being done, I'll be working on this for the next few days. ChainSwordCS (talk) 12:07, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Alright, as for the October 7, 2004 prerelease screenshots, I'll be uploading the highest quality versions available at IGN.com. I will not replace existing uploads if they're higher quality. I'll leave it at that for now; comparing levels of JPEG compression is a monumental task and finding the uncompressed originals is nigh impossible.

Also I talked to some admins on the Discord and decided to treat each screenshot as an inseparable set of top + bottom. Though there are many instances in which the menu in the screenshot is identical to how it appears in other screenshots, it probably makes sense not to cut them up. ChainSwordCS (talk) 08:18, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Regarding some of the images currently under the March 9 header, like two of them were originally under the February header and that section also contained differences relevant to this collection of screenshots. I was unable to confirm whether these screenshots are from February, as far as I know they're from March. But IGN is my source on this so idk... This page is gonna need a little bit of reorganization anyway. ChainSwordCS (talk) 10:53, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

And because the IGN February screenshots are labelled wrong anyway, it's to be expected they're named in the wrong order too. I'm reordering them in a way that makes sense. ChainSwordCS (talk) 12:02, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Maybe it would make sense to move all the images to a timeline subpage, and make the main page just illustrate the changes. Because right now it's not too well organized in my opinion. My idea would be to, say, have a UI section, then in that section list all the known changes and revisions throughout development.

Yeah... on second thought having this many images with this few differences is probably bad practice, my apologies. ChainSwordCS (talk) 07:08, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

For what it's worth I just wanted to make sure all the available prerelease screenshots were documented in some way. For most other games we're lucky to get one or a few, but for Nintendogs there are around 100 in total. An admin can remove unnecessary ones if they decide but I have anxiety soooooo ChainSwordCS (talk) 03:02, 9 February 2021 (UTC)