Originally Posted by JumboMaverick
This database has been an invaluable tool to me in sorting through games in my collection, but I think it's lacking something that I would like to see added. Two very important things to collectors are version numbers and TOC (table of contents) sizes in bytes. I realize this would be alot of work, but everyone contributing what they can when they have time can really help this database out more.
My reasoning is this: Developers make subtle, and not so subtle, changes to source code to fix bugs/glitches/etc. and repress and rerelease the game. Take Gran Turismo 2 for example. We all know the original had only the bug with the drag racing and completion %. Sony fixed it and put out another version, then later released yet another version to fix the car wash bug. There are at least 3 versions of GT2 out there... and there's no easy way to tell which version you have without actually playing the game. Same deal with PS2. the GTA series comes to mind first, especially San Andreas.
So how can we determine versions? Simple.