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CJayC | Posted 6/29/2007 1:45:01 AM | message detail
FAQs: http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/comp_faqs

Boxes: http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/comp_boxes

Numbers are: number of front boxshots or complete faqs / number of games/releases in the database

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AphonicFox | Posted 6/29/2007 2:07:54 AM | message detail
Wow, that's pretty great. How often will they be updated?

Any idea or whether you'll ever have user level stats like that for the message boards?
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Xcarvengerx | Posted 6/29/2007 2:13:37 AM | message detail
Nice! But there should be "other" column for games/releases that were not from US/EU/JP, or even better just add AU, SA, KO etc to the stats, especially for box shot stats (probably not a good idea for FAQ stats).

Hmmm, looking at it, a console called GP32 has 21 releases but only 1 of them from either US/EU/JP...
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Xcarvengerx | Posted 6/29/2007 2:30:56 AM | message detail
How often will they be updated?
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=2000094&topic=36395099
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Groovilicious | Posted 6/29/2007 4:58:05 AM | message detail
That's neat, any chance that this could be done for reviews too?

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ffmasterjose | Posted 6/29/2007 7:38:10 AM | message detail
Cool.
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Starwolf_UK | Posted 7/3/2007 6:19:41 PM | message detail
I had a bit of time free with excel so decided to some maths based on boxes. These stats are correct as of when I took the data (a couple of hours ago). All %ages are rounded up to a whole number...

Overall completion of the boxes project is at 37% (North America 42%, Japan 39%, Europe 36%, Others 3%*)
*-Others is Korea, Worldwide, Australia and any others...

Top 10 overall complete systems
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#1.VirtualBoy (100%)
#2.Atari 5200 (95%)
#3.Atari 7800 (92%)
#3.Nintendo 64DD (92%)
#5.NeoGeo (86%)
#6.DS (85%)
#6.Turbo CD (85%)
#8.WonderSwan Color (82%)
#9.PC-FX (81%)
10.Sega CD (80%)
10.SG-1000 (80%)

Top 10 North America complete systems
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#1.Virtual Boy (100%)
#2.Atari 7800 (97%)
#3.NES (96%)
#3.DS (96%)
#5.Atari 5200 (95%)
#6.PSP (94%)
#6.Wii (94%)
#8.XBOX360 (93%)
#9.Playstation 3 (92%)
#9.Atari Jaguar (92%)

Top 10 Japan complete systems
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#1.VirtualBoy (100%)
#2.DS (98%)
#3.Genesis (97%)
#4.Sega CD (96%)
#5.TurboGrafx-16 (94%)
#6.Neo Geo (93%)
#7.Nintendo64DD (92%)
#8.Turbo CD (91%)
#9.WonderSwan Color (83%)
#9.Dreamcast (83%)
#9.Wii (83%)

Top 10 Europe complete systems
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#1.Oric 1/Atmos (100%) <- Finally not a VirtualBoy!!!
#2.DS (94%)
#3.NeoGeo Pocket Color (86%)
#4.Sega 32X (82%)
#5.Xbox360 (79%)
#5.Wii (79%)
#7.Saturn (76%)
#8.Sega Master System (73%)
#9.PSP (58%)
10.MSX (57%)

And i'm not doing others.

Hope somebody out there found all that interesting...
Shotgunnova | Posted 7/3/2007 8:09:02 PM | message detail
Sweet deal, thanks for compiling.

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Xcarvengerx | Posted 7/11/2007 3:44:23 AM | message detail
Some updated statistics for your viewing pleasure...:)

FAQ Stats
Top 5 Overall Most Complete System:

VirtualBoy = 20/22 (90.91%)
NeoGeo = 78/118 (66.10%)
NES = 978/1535 (63.71%)
Wii = 172/286 (60.14%)
GameCube = 386/686 (56.27%)

Top 5 NA Most Complete System:
VirtualBoy = 14/14 (100.00%)
NES = 685/766 (89.43%)
Wii = 142/189 (75.13%)
NeoGeo = 63/85 (74.12%)
Dreamcast = 191/283 (67.49%)
GameCube = 369/571 (64.62%)

Top 5 JP Most Complete System:
Atari 2600 = 2/2 (100.00%)
DVD Player = 1/1 (100.00%)
VirtualBoy = 17/19 (89.47%)
NeoGeo = 78/118 (66.10%)
Wii = 136/210 (64.76%)

Top 5 EU Most Complete System:
NES = 257/275 (93.45%)
Wii = 123/171 (71.93%)
NeoGeo Pocket Color = 5/7 (71.43%)
Apple II = 7/10 (70.00%)
GameCube = 325/466 (69.74%)

Overall:
NA = 8841/29199 (30.28%)
JP = 5227/22573 (23.16%)
EU = 5188/14268 (36.36%)
ALL = 10971/51854 (21.16%)*

*This stat is far lower than the average of the other three stats because a complete FAQ may be counted more than once for multiple released games, but the FAQ would only be counted once in ALL.


Boxshot Stats
Top 5 Overall Most Complete System:

VirtualBoy = 35/35 (100.00%)
PC-FX = 61/63 (96.83%)
Atari 5200 = 69/73 (94.52%)
Atari 7800 = 56/61 (91.80%)
Nintendo 64DD = 11/12 (91.67%)

Top 5 NA Most Complete System:
VirtualBoy = 15/15 (100.00%)
Atari 7800 = 56/58 (96.55%)
NES = 743/771 (96.37%)
DS = 315/327 (96.33%)
Wii = 74/77 (96.10%)

Top 5 JP Most Complete System:
VirtualBoy = 20/20 (100.00%)
DS = 573/586 (97.78%)
PC-FX = 61/63 (96.83%)
Genesis = 411/429 (95.80%)
Sega CD = 110/115 (95.65%)

Top 5 EU Most Complete System:
Oric 1/Atmos = 2/2 (100.00%)
DS = 287/304 (94.41%)
PSP = 286/330 (86.67%)
NeoGeo Pocket Color = 6/7 (85.71%)
Sega 32X = 18/22 (81.82%)

Overall:
NA = 11149/25332 (44.01%)
JP =10261/25047 (40.97%)
EU = 6102/14872 (41.03%)
ALL = 27645/70046 (39.47%)**

**This stat is far lower than the average of the other three stats due to the WW releases. The main offender here is Commodore 64, which has 2000-3000 WW releases...

Sorry can't be bothered to do top 10... ;_;
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Xcarvengerx | Posted 7/11/2007 3:53:27 AM | message detail
Oh, yeah forgot to say another reason why the overall stat is lower is because there are other releases outside of NA, EU and JP. But the main reasons have been listed in my post above.
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M1 Heng | Posted 7/11/2007 4:13:14 AM | message detail
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M1 Heng | Posted 7/11/2007 4:15:06 AM | message detail
Very nice, the box one should be useful since it can be annoying to look through a system thoroughly only to find the vast majority already have images.

Something just barely related but figured I'd mention it since might see it here, concerning box art.

When I do a search for a game, Final Fantasy for example:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/search/index.html?game=final+fantasy&platform=0

It lists pics in the results, which is useful at indicating that there are images.

On the other hand, if you look by system, like so:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/genesis/list_m.html

Notice it doesn't list pics there even though many of the games have pictures.

It would be useful if the pics link was integrated when browsing by system as well, both for regular users on the page and those of us who might be sending in art.
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Super Destroy | Posted 7/12/2007 2:07:57 AM | message detail
It's like that with Game Saves as well. I'm guessing both are just not important enough to warrent changing the list pages. Maybe someday in the future though.
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Ness26 | Posted 7/20/2007 1:59:13 AM | message detail
It's not at 500, because unlike most people, contributors have a decent enough head on their shoulders not to flip out whenever he posts.
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The_Rave_Master | Posted 7/20/2007 2:10:38 AM | message detail
Oh wow, that's neat. :O
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