Hello.
First of, before you tell me to go to the game's own forum, hear me out, as the current situation makes that endeavor... a bit impossible at the moment.
The situation is as follows: The game "Hydro Thunder" seems to have two different game entries on speedrun.com (one for the N64 version and one for the PSX version), when they are essentially ports of the same arcade game, similarly to San Francisco Rush 2049 for instance. This makes the "inquire with the game's forum" solution a bit intricate, as that specific title has been "split in two" for all intents and purposes.
Now the thing is, there are more than just two ports of that game. There's also a PC port, a Dreamcast port, along with all the other systems on which "Midway Arcade Treasures 3" (based on the DC port) has been released (Ergo: PlayStation 2, Gamecube, Xbox). That's a lot of ports, if you ask me!
Now what should be done about this? Should the two game entries be merged into one that would include all the other ports? I'm ultimately asking this because I plan on running that game on the PS2, but there's no game entry that seems to fit this. I don't think requesting a new game entry for each port would be an adequate solution. Rather, I believe this title could be better managed under one single game entry for all its ports.
Note: Hydro Thunder Hurricane is an entirely different game, by the way, and should not be a part of this.
Any thoughts?
I'm under the impression that splitting the boards by platform wasn't a completely conscious decision. Considering that the N64 and PS1 ports have different moderators and that there aren't any series mods, I'm guessing they were both requested and added completely independently of each other. If they really are the same, then they should probably be merged into one board, though you should go to the game's forum (both of them I guess?) and talk to the people that runs these games. There might be a reason for this that we don't know about.
Have one board for Hydro Thunder, same categories, and sub-categories for each version of the game. That's the way to go IMO.
I'd definitely agree with you, CriscoWild. Thing is, which one of the current boards would be willing to let the other take over? Not sure either board's mod team will be pleased by that.
I would say the best solution is that all mods from one board get added on the other one
I agree with blueYOSHI here. There's no reason anyone has to be excluded. If you're having a hard time picking which board to move everyone to, just go by which one has the most runs on it already, as that means less runs to port over and thus less work.