MusicBrainz-style game DB

MusicBrainz is actually open source so I can jump straight to a POC easier said than done, struggling to build with Nix, and the database schema I had in mind bares almost no resemblance to MB's anyway

could use for BizHawk, TASVideos site, and anyone else who wants in, like maybe SMW Central, romhacking.com, or one of the existing database projects below

• opened TASVideos/tasvideos#2213 re: linking to Wikidata from TVO

some existing databases of games:

• (BizHawk's gamedb ofc)
• (https://tasvideos.org/Games/List ofc)
• https://db.libretro.com/
• http://redump.org/ (no HTTPS)
• https://openretro.org/
• https://www.gamesdatabase.org/
• https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/
• https://www.mobygames.com/
• https://vgcollect.com/
• https://thegamesdb.net/
• https://www.gametdb.com/
• https://serialstation.com/
• https://www.igdb.com/discover (Twitch)
• https://rawg.io/ (for-profit)
• https://retroachievements.org/
• http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/ (no HTTPS; MAME's partner, and also one of the worst webservers in existence)
• https://hhug.me/dump/
• https://ifdb.org/
• https://github.com/SnowflakePowered/shiragame + https://github.com/SnowflakePowered/opengood
• https://omni-games.info/
• https://doesitplay.org
• Wikidata
  • surely there's a reason MusicBrainz is separate from Wikidata? I haven't used it much but it just seems... meh? I think the reason is that SPARQL is hard; its modelling is as good as you could expect from a universal ontology
  • Wikidata's notability guidelines, while malleable, would likely preclude a lot of the romhacks, homebrew and Flash games that we'd want to use this database for, hence we need a separate project
    • see convo at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/WT:WikiProject_Video_games#Importing_checksums
  • powered by Wikidata: https://vglist.co
• Wikibase instance federated with Wikidata
  • catalogue of existing instances
• + several listed here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mix'n'match/Catalogues#Video_games
  • the ones with Wikidata Properties: instances of Q107786704 (identifiers for games) or Q113667094 (identifiers for engines)

some existing databases of emus:

• https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
• https://github.com/PhoenixInteractiveNL/emuDownloadCenter/wiki/EDC-Platform-List
• https://github.com/detain/emurelation

other:

• https://savefileconverter.com/#/download-saves (link farm for SaveRAMs)
• https://bucanero.github.io/apollo-saves/ (similar)
• https://github.com/marcrobledo/savegame-editors (schema/editors for SaveRAMs)
• https://github.com/SnowflakePowered/stone (list of sysIDs and peripherals, I was thinking of making this but now I don't have to)
• https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/subjectSchemes/gcipplatform.html (apparently an ontology for sysIDs but I'm only seeing metadata)