I think BMS is acceptable as a Source if and only if the song was intended to be released with it as a default song in the game or contest within the game. Iterations of the song that are not the original song belonging to its respective source should not be listed as part of that source.IamKwaN wrote:
Website names, album names and format names are not acceptable sources. Is BMS acceptable as a Source?
Example 1:
xi - Halcyon (mapset by gowww) is the original adaptation of the song released in 2010 for BMS as part of the BoF2010 event whereas xi - Halcyon (mapset by Natsu) is the 2011 album released version (2nd adaptation) not intended to be affiliated with BMS. On a side note Natsu, the title for the full version of Halcyon is shown > here < as well as the backside of Parousia's cover. So I don't know where you got - Long Version - from zz. Therefore, only the first original version of the song should be cited as BMS and not the latter.
Example 2:
xi - Ascension to Heaven by Shiirn should be BMS whereas xi - Ascension to Heaven by Kroytz should not be.
However, in the case of it being a contest song such as Sakuzyo - Altale or xi - Aragami, I'm starting to wonder now if it would it be better to have it listed as BMS or the contest from which it was submitted to? For the two listed above, it's technical original Source would be: G2R2014 "GO BACK 2 YOUR ROOTS" -THE BMS OF FIGHTERS 2004 RELOADED- according to the the name of the contest but the platform it was released on is BMS.
Similarly, for songs belonging to other games such as SDVX, do contest songs get listed by the game platform or the contest?
As an example: Does iLLness LiLin get listed under "SDVX IV HE4VENLY HAVEN" because it was first debut'd on it or does it get Sourced under The 6th KAC Original Song Contest (The 6th KAC オリジナル楽曲コンテスト) because that was where it was first submitted to originally?
Personally, I believe for simplicity's sake that contest songs should be Sourced under their respective game platform as the original released version of the song and not part of the contest it belongs to only because these contests are part of these game platforms and in most cases designed for them - in this case, The 6th KAC Original Song Contest winners were designed specially for SDVX IV HE4VENLY HAVEN. A person looking through SDVX IV songs will only find six default songs followed by a plethora of contest song winners, licensed songs, and arrangements among others.