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* Values like serials, CRCs, release dates, and statuses are distinguished by '''region''' type. Find your region (be it PAL, NTSC-U or NTSC-J) and update the value accordingly. So for instance if you want to set the game as playable on Windows and your region is NTSC-U, assign '2' to 'statusNTSCU' variable. | * Values like serials, CRCs, release dates, and statuses are distinguished by '''region''' type. Find your region (be it PAL, NTSC-U or NTSC-J) and update the value accordingly. So for instance if you want to set the game as playable on Windows and your region is NTSC-U, assign '2' to 'statusNTSCU' variable. | ||
* '''Status''' values are numeral, please do not set it to something like 'playable', it won't work. Use '2' to show that the game is playable, 1 = goes ingame, 0 = is broken. Remember, use the Preview button to make sure your edit shows up correctly before actually saving the page. | * '''Status''' values are numeral, please do not set it to something like 'playable', it won't work. Use '2' to show that the game is playable, 1 = goes ingame, 0 = is broken. Remember, use the Preview button to make sure your edit shows up correctly before actually saving the page. | ||
* '''Genre''' value can be any text but please be advised to stick to the current defined game categories (Action, Adventure, Arcade, Compilation, Casual, Fighting, Horror, MMO, Minigames, Shooter, Sports, Racing, Remake, RPG, RTS are currently defined, please propose more [[Talk:Help! How to contribute guide|on the talk page]]). You can use any combination of these words to set up the game category. For example, setting genre to "Action-Adventure,RPG" automatically stores this game under Action, Adventure and RPG categories simultaneously. And if the genre is "Extreme Sports" the game will be categorized as [[:Category:Sports|"Sports"]]. You can also add categories by hand if necessary. | * '''Genre''' value can be any text but please be advised to stick to the current defined game categories (Action, Adventure, Arcade, Compilation, Casual, Fighting, Horror, MMO, Minigames, Shooter, Sports, Platformer, Puzzle, Racing, Remake, RPG, RTS are currently defined, please propose more [[Talk:Help! How to contribute guide|on the talk page]]). You can use any combination of these words to set up the game category. For example, setting genre to "Action-Adventure,RPG" automatically stores this game under Action, Adventure and RPG categories simultaneously. And if the genre is "Extreme Sports" the game will be categorized as [[:Category:Sports|"Sports"]]. You can also add categories by hand if necessary. | ||
* You can set as many genres as you like delimiting them by commas (ex. "Action,Adventure,Fighting,Minigames"). This will put the game in all those categories simultaneously. | * You can set as many genres as you like delimiting them by commas (ex. "Action,Adventure,Fighting,Minigames"). This will put the game in all those categories simultaneously. | ||
* Before committing the changes please confirm that they are correct by using Preview button. Fix any errors you may have inadvertently made and keep previewing until you are finally satisfied with all your edits - only then should you save the page. This will help you from committing multiple updates to correct each error as you find them.<br /> | * Before committing the changes please confirm that they are correct by using Preview button. Fix any errors you may have inadvertently made and keep previewing until you are finally satisfied with all your edits - only then should you save the page. This will help you from committing multiple updates to correct each error as you find them.<br /> | ||