Why capitalization on spanish game titles?

[Rocknroms]

MacGruber, you are completely RIGHT!

I don't understand what's the meaning of this discussion and it's not the first time. I know also that admin, Fireball, has some weird thoughts.

Titles can be written in any way on covers, any language doesn't use capitalization, even English, unless for names of people, countries, istitutions and so on.
What we use it's simply a convention (not only no-intro, but this convention was used by anyone) and has nothing to do with grammatic rules: everything must be capitalized unless "articles", some "conjunctions" and some "prepositions" ***

File generator contains only ASCII chars and it should be like this becouse of CONVENTION and because it could be a mess for people and/or programs that cannot handle other charsets. Titles with particoular chars can be set as "Alternative titles"

EDIT: *** I edit and add "some" because I don't know how all those were considered in English but Latin Languages don't make any difference.

[DJoneK]

Spanish is my primary language (Puerto Rico) and I thought those lowercase titles were fugly.  I stand by MacGruber and Rocknroms.  Using different naming conventions in the same database makes it look disorganized as heck.

[M00NLiGHT]

M00NLiGHT any advise to ^this^ title? >>> Dragon Ball Z: La grande legende des Boules de Cristal ?

La Grande Légende des Boules de Cristal is ok
Source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Z_Legends

[F1ReB4LL]

MacGruber, you are completely RIGHT!

I don't understand what's the meaning of this discussion and it's not the first time. I know also that admin, Fireball, has some weird thoughts.

Titles can be written in any way on covers, any language doesn't use capitalization, even English, unless for names of people, countries, istitutions and so on.
What we use it's simply a convention (not only no-intro, but this convention was used by anyone) and has nothing to do with grammatic rules: everything must be capitalized unless "articles", some "conjunctions" and some "prepositions" ***

Some titles also have an unusual capitalization on purpose. In that case, capitalization should be left as intended.

For example, beatmania is a trademark, it can't be written in any other form and definetely not as "Beat Mania", like now.

[Devcon]

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Well, i don't want to start a flamewar in anyway. If the no-intro rules are the same for all the languages then it's ok.

The fact is i was just trying to help, and i was just pointing at some orthographic errors i found.

But well i don't care anymore, you can capitalize the way you want but expect to see from time to time someone like me poking on the forums because some titles looks ugly at their native language.

Regards.

[F1ReB4LL]

The guide is obsolete, No-Intro's convention has its own standard.

[Devcon]

Then No-Intro rules + Spanish titles = Some weird Spanglish titles.

I'm sorry to say that i don't like spanglish.

[Rocknroms]

For example, beatmania is a trademark, it can't be written in any other form and definetely not as "Beat Mania", like now.

Obviously copyrighted stuff should be left as they are (LEGO, NiGHTS, etc.), but your example is quite wrong and out of contest because the guide talk about capitalization and not minimation, so at least it should be BeatMania (and most of times on cover it's written "beat mania", so now what we are going to do?). Well, however if I remember well you want also Japanese titles in kanji, very usefull and rational

Devcon, I have already said it above: NO-INTRO RULES ARE THE SAME FOR ALL LANGUAGES, even in English those capitalized titles should look weird but this is the rule.

[F1ReB4LL]

http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/ -- all the arcade ones are "beatmania" and "beatmania" is really a TM.

[Devcon]

Devcon, I have already said it above: NO-INTRO RULES ARE THE SAME FOR ALL LANGUAGES, even in English those capitalized titles should look weird but this is the rule.

So these titles at the database are correct, and all follow the No-Intro namig rules?:

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