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VGMaps Social Board / Re: What's gonna be the 50,000th Map in VGMaps History?
« Last post by Cyartog959 on January 07, 2026, 04:07:34 pm »Well... I don't want people sending in a bunch of low-quality maps just to be the one that hits that milestone.
A few years ago, I offered to old and new mappers that anyone who had submitted like 20 or 50 maps or whatever could get a free "Nintendo Quest DVD" from me (as I had so many after doing an event in 2015 but now needed to move them as they weren't selling)....
But it was around the time that this one person, a new mapper, who probably only just wanted the "free" DVD, started submitting a lot of low-quality stuff. I'm not one to refuse maps if technically they are maps, but man... is the site always improved with more maps, especially if they're like those?
And as nice as it is to be able to say we have lots of maps, technically maps would work better the fewer there are. As in, no unnecessary fragmentation.
Before we got complete Super Metroid maps for each area (thanks, Rick Bruns!), someone tried to send in maps they had extracted from the game somehow... meaning that it was hundreds of images, separate files, one for each room. Come on, a single room isn't really a map...
I want there to be 50,000 maps, sure, but we'll get there. And if I say we're close, I hope that if anything, that it encourages people to continue to make good maps, not to pivot to making worse maps that they can pump out faster.
I didn't say we'd want maps rushed to that low-quality. I'm just saying of what kinds of commemorations to think of in that honor when it happens.
The overall, updated map count you gave really gave me some excitement, but you do have good points of wanting maps at good quality, and yes, encouragement is necessary to keep on going. We do have universally basic standards to keep.
Yeah, I wouldn't want all rooms of any Metroidvania as their own maps, either. Separate areas, yes, but not all rooms as maps.
Aside from people still wanting physical discs, DVD, Blu-Ray, whichever(new formats can still be made alongside them), and still fighting to preserve them(believe me; certain outlets, like streaming, are like unstable, slippery slopes that can hurt quite badly), I'm sure your Nintendo Quest is a good favorite among others, and whatever you may cook up next for another release afterwards will be more well-enjoyed.
But, other than that, we're sure to have a good celebration for the 50,000th map that we can remember from. There's plenty of time to think of commemoration ideas, but I won't get into them.
I'm sure we'll all be looking forward to that moment when it comes in VGMaps history.
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