Hi, I am new to these forums, but I thought I'd chime in. If this has been suggested please feel free to let me know.

My main two collections are both for the Super Nintendo System, namely PAL and Japanese games. When adding a game to a collection it automatically comes up with box art for this game. I think it would be a great idea to change the box art depending on the region of the game, since these often differ.

Examples:
Star Fox (US release): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Star_Fox_SNES.jpg
Starwing (PAL release): http://www.abload.de/img/s_17002_1118162368_stjpytg.jpg
Star Fox (Japese release): http://chukogamekaitori.com/images/Star%20Fox%200.60.jpg

It would be pretty cool if the site was able to automatically show the correct box for the correct region, so games don't seem to show up as duplicates when you own them for multiple systems.

I hope I made myself sufficiently clear, if not, please let me know :)

I second that. I have more PAL games than NTSC games. Would be nice to see the correct cover for them :) I know mobygames have every cover for every variant of the games. Could work as a source.

This is an excellent idea and definitely something I'd like to provide! The main hold-up for region-specific functionality like this is we need to finish adding all of the games. This particular change will also have some downstream implications that might be kinda weird. For example, when you add a game to your collection, it obviously has a region associated with it. But everything else, such as completions, playthroughs, etc do not. Likewise, if you just go to a community-wide game details page, it doesn't necessarily know what region you want to see. I'm not sure any of that matters, but it at least needs to be considered when making a huge architectural change like this.

But yeah, I'm all for it because I think it would be really useful for those not in North America :D

Great to see you are interested in implementing this :)

The way I see it is keeping the search functionality as it is. When adding a game to your collection you can already select a region and I am guessing US is the default.

If I were to implement this I would always show the default images for a search result as they are now, but I would map the box art for the different regions (Japan and Europe) to the region selection box. So basically each database record for a game will have 3 images associated with it, and will display a certain image based on the chosen region.

I obviously can't look at the architecture of the db and site, but I feel this could be a fairly low impact change? It will probably take a lot of effort to find all the correct box art for the different regions though.