#What's the deal with Editions?

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dusk wave
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So I am currently making a page for the Collector's Editions of Hammerin' Harry games that got ported to NES recently, but I was looking at the Metal Storm re-release (https://www.igdb.com/games/metal-storm-collectors-edition) for reference and I noticed that the original Metal Storm was nowhere to be seen in Related Content, or any way the page seemed to link those two games.

Does a re-release with a translation + physical bonuses count as something else besides an edition (remake? remaster? expanded game?) or am I missing something here?

keen lotus
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Editions on IGDB are little more defined than alot of releases that slap it on the end of a title that could be port/expanded game/etc.

By the guidelines, an Edition (previously called Versions) is when a game is released with additional features or items. This almost always happens on the same release day as the base (Deluxe Editions, Collector's Editions with special items, etc.)

Things like NieR Automata: Become as Gods Edition is an expanded game that released much later, bringing it to XB1 with all the extra content.

dusk wave
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Let's consider the following then:

a Famicom game that never had a port outside of Japan, getting a licensed port to the NES 30 years later with a translation. Does that make it a Port?

keen lotus
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yes

dusk wave
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Ok good, I feel like I am cooking now. Thanks for clarifying a bit.

keen lotus
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The defining line is alittle more blurred between Port and Expanded Game. Port on the lighter side, Expanded Game on the larger side without being a Remaster