Release groups.. for video games

[Silver_Skree]

I know I’ve been digging up a lot of old topics lately-- sorry if this is a nuisance, but I do have some things I want to bring up here.

@CyberSkull

Game-rip bootlegs should never be grouped with the official soundtracks because they are sourced differently than those recordings and may have different processing and other differences to the recordings. Generally these recordings are kept separate and have a disambiguation comment noting that it is a game-rip bootleg.

If this is the case, then should I split out these releases in to separate groups?

HEARTBEAT Original Soundtrack

I made both of these, but was very dissatisfied with the limitation of the official release after having played through the game, so I made the bootleg rip version… but according to this:

@Hawke

My rule of thumb for when to group releases is, “Would the release substitute for another in the group” (assuming a casual collector). That is to say, if you wanted to get “the soundtrack for Streets of Rage” you should be able to get any one of the releases in the release group, and be satisfied that you have that thing. You might not have every single bit of music that appeared in the game, and you might not have the exact same version of a track as some other release in the group, but they are generally equivalent.

…these releases are definitely not anywhere near equivalent. I guess maybe I had been misunderstanding the intent of Release Groups? If these should be fixed, I’d be happy to do so, as compared to a lot of other work I’ve done to bring these bootlegs into existence, tossing stuff into a different release group is a cinch.