I find the world of video game bootlegs fascinating, and love editing that kind of stuff on MB.
Video game music is in a very difficult space right now, but I am hoping it is a space of transition, and I don’t think cataloguing bootlegs is a bad thing, particularly when you can use it to lead people to a release group with an official release.
Anyway, that wasn’t that helpful haha - I think at the end of the day there will be some manual work. There might be a script that can help?
I wonder if this still works:
Unless there’s a good reason to merge the recordings (eg track times are the same across the whole official release vs the singles) I would lean towards not merging them, especially gem older games where there are often a lot of different rips floating around.
P.s. I found this quite interesting recently: