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The image is broken on Darkadia (which uses the Giant Bomb API):

Also getting this on the game's wiki page (note the broken image under Latest Images):

When I tried to change the default image it said I need more than 5000 points (which I have). I guess that's the default "need approval" message now. Previously I did not need approval for submissions.

Could someone fix the box art default image for Siesta Fiesta 3DSE?

https://www.giantbomb.com/siesta-fiesta/3030-45348/images/

For some reason the current default image is broken (shows as a missing image, here and on other sites like Darkadia). I tried to upload an alternate box art image and set that as the default, but it's not accepting my submission despite having more than enough wiki points from previous edits. Presumably my account was limited after I recently disagreed with a moderation decision so maybe someone else can make this change.

That or the site is just broken and no longer supported, in which case I'm out of luck on this one.

@ginormous76: No need to apologize. That's a very reasonable explanation and I'm very aware that some things that seem simple or like they should be simple very much are not, especially with legacy systems that were built with different goals and requirements. I understand why it's not an easy change, but I disagree with the reasoning given above for not allowing some degree of flexibility in working around those limitations. Also though, like I said, I'm not going to push back on that any further as that does not seem like a good use of anyone's time here.

Isn't this what scripting is for? How are there not tools to do batch processing for things like this?! By the way the most unobtrusive change would be to simply only add the 3DS platform (as I did) rather than remove or replace 3DSE and PSN, XBLA, etc so that existing links remain intact.

I'm gonna leave it alone since I have no interest in spending more energy on this but there was no "fuck up" since my edit was factually correct and I look forward to this mistake being corrected at some point in the future... or not. Do what you want.

@bigsocrates That makes sense historically and it's a shame there aren't more resources available to support the wiki now, but that being the case I don't see why these virtual platform distinctions should be strictly enforced, since they're completely inaccurate anyway. Like sure, label a release as being specific to XBLA or PSN or eShop or whatever, but there is no reason to prevent the game from ALSO being labelled as being on Xbox or PS3/PS4 or 3DS respectively, since those are the actual platforms these games are on.

It especially becomes a problem when external sites use Giant Bomb's database as a foundation for doing other things, like Darkadia, a free game collection catalog service. The result is I can't add a bunch of my digital 3DS games to my 3DS collection because Giant Bomb says they're not on 3DS though they clearly are... which is why I was making those edits.

Again, if PC is ONE platform, there is no reason 3DS should be three separate 'platforms'.

Yesterday I added the platform "Nintendo 3DS" to a bunch of digital-only 3DS games on the wiki, which is correct because these are games that are on 3DS, but those changes it seems were immediately reverted since when I checked today this edit is gone for all of those games and they are again listed only as "Nintendo 3DS eShop". First of all, it's rude to remove someone's work without warning. Second, this is nonsense because the 3DS eShop is not by any reasonable definition a separate platform. It's a shop on the 3DS. The platform is 3DS.

This brings me to the larger issue: Different digital stores or hardware editions are not new platforms, and even if you were to consider them all as such Giant Bomb is completely inconsistent on this point. There is no reason there should be a separate platform for Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS eShop and even New Nintendo 3DS, when there is only ONE single platform for PC. Where is the Steam platform?! Where is GOG? What about Epic? Origin? Battlenet? itchio? Nothing.

Yet 3DS apparently needs three separate 'platforms' for one handheld? See also PS3/PSN. What is this weird console bias? If you're going to be overly broad on what constitutes a 'platform' you have to apply that across the board.

You should either simplify console and handheld labeling or extend the range of labels for PC to be equally broad.

Some cool stuff in this thread. I noticed there were almost no images in the actual No Man's Sky screenshot gallery on GB so I uploaded a bunch of my screens if anyone's interested. There's a lot of them but I think there are some pretty good ones, interesting creatures and some sweet landscapes.

I quite like this panorama, assembled with Autostitch from a few overlapping screens:

I guess I didn't look very thoroughly but I'm having this problem as well. Sorry about the duplicate thread.

Could one of the mods change the box art back to the proper version, please? It got changed to the terrible one again just before the site change and I can't find the Set Thumbnail button on the new site.