Attempting to add scans in addition to adding a new platform to an existing entry (adding an SG-1000 game to an existing MSX entry). The error message states "Packaging is required" even though there is no Packaging settings in the form for uploading SG-1000 box/cover scans:

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/6906/clipboard01mjc.jpg

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/7356/clipboard01nr.jpg

Odd, I added a packaging type, might be fixed now.

OK there is now a dialog box for Packaging, but there is only "Cartridge Case", but would that be appropriate for the MyCard releases with the cardboard 'empty book cover' type thingie with the plastic tray glued in place to hold the MyCard? (I don't know what the hell to call that 'empty book cover' type thingie... I hope someone here does!) ...or the even older release versions which come in a different style cardboard box that opens at the top?

I'm not that familiar with the platform, but would cartridge case do for the first and box for the second? Both are now available. I don't know if there is a specific name for the packaging of those games.

Ya, that should do. The 'empty book cover' thing is really just a cheap sort of cardboard+plastic 'Card/Cartridge Case' I guess.

It looks like a digipak or gatefold to me, though those terms generally refer to disc packaging. I'm not even sure when digipak was originally introduced.

The "first use in commerce" date for the Digipak trademark is March 18, 1986. Quoted from here:
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/when-was-the-first-digipak-cd-released.136733/page-2

Patent info (filed July 11th 1986, date of patent Dec 1st 1987):
http://www.google.com/patents/US4709812.pdf


Well, 'digipak' is a trademarked name for a specific type of CD case/cover, so it's not really a generic name which could be applied to these cardboard+plastic-tray card cases I would think...

Also, a quick question: Is there an easy way to fix the entries which already contain scans which are missing the Packaging info? Or should I simply put in a Correction request?

Example:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/sg-1000/girls-garden/cover-art/gameCoverId,254533/
^added a week & a half ago so it doesn't contain Packaging data.

EDIT: Also, It's only fair to say that I'm not entirely sure if they didn't all originally come in an outer 'cardboard box' of some kind. The 4 in cardboard boxes which I had last year were all sealed and I traded them off still sealed, never opening any of them, so I never actually saw what was inside the boxes...

It's only my best guess that the 'empty book cover' releases WERE released without an outer box based on the fact that there is a barcode printed on the back of them...

The few MyCards I currently have left now are all in the 'empty book cover' type cardboard cartridge/card cases only... as was most of my collection before trading them (and all those that I did have and the few I still have were all acquired 2nd hand in the mid/late 90's sometime...)

A correction is fine for the missing ones.

ok, cool thanks!