New Platform: Apple Bandai Pippin

📋 Summary

Add Apple Bandai Pippin as a platform within LaunchBox and the LaunchBox Games Database.

❗ Problem

Apple Bandai Pippin was a PowerPC-based multimedia console released in the mid-1990s.

Currently:

• Users may need to manually create the platform in LaunchBox

• Pippin titles may be grouped under broader Macintosh or custom platforms

• Metadata and media management is less organized without a dedicated platform

• There is no standard platform entry for users to contribute to or scrape against

Although the library is small, Pippin has a distinct hardware and software identity that makes it useful to catalog separately.

💡 Proposal

Add Apple Bandai Pippin as an official platform in LaunchBox and the Games Database.

This would allow:

• Dedicated platform metadata

• Platform-specific media

• Consistent organization across user collections

• Easier contribution and moderation of Pippin titles

• Better preservation of a historically unusual console library

Where appropriate, existing Pippin-related entries could be reviewed and reassigned to the new platform.

📦 Benefits

• Improves support for obscure commercial console platforms

• Helps preserve and document Apple/Bandai Pippin software

• Provides a proper scrape target for Pippin titles

• Reduces reliance on generic Macintosh categorization

• Improves consistency for collectors of rare console libraries

⚠️ Considerations

• Platform naming should be standardized, likely as Apple Bandai Pippin

• The library includes both games and multimedia software, so inclusion rules may need review

• MAME support is still preliminary, so the request should focus on cataloging and preservation rather than mature playability

• Platform icons, clear logos, and metadata would need to be added or verified