Lemon Amiga vs The Visual Novel Database

Lemon Amiga is a free website about the classic Amiga computer, combining a searchable games library with a fan community. Searches can check title keywords, alternative names, and spelling variants, while advanced filters cover release year, media, genre, hardware, language, ratings, and player information. Game pages may contain reviews, ratings, comments, scans, documents, cheats, videos, and external links. Registered members can vote, review, comment, and use the forum; a user-vote Top 100 list has model, genre, and year filters. The site may provide public-domain, freeware, shareware, or otherwise authorised downloads, but commercial Amiga games cannot legally be distributed there. Its FAQ explains WHDLoad installation for floppy-based games and demos and notes compatibility with WinUAE. The catalogue does not aim to include every game. Lemon Amiga is web-based, has no paywalls or intrusive ads, and accepts donations.

The Visual Novel Database (VNDB) is a free resource for information about visual novels and eroge, available on the web and through an API. Its wiki lets people add and contribute information, including general details and practical coverage of releases, localisations and producers. Registered users can vote on visual novels and maintain lists of games they want to play or have finished. VNDB also aims to introduce visual novels to a broader audience across geographic and cultural differences. The Kana HTTPS API can query the database and manage user lists. Non-commercial API access costs nothing and is subject to limits: 200 requests per 5 minutes, one second of execution time per minute, and automatic abortion of requests exceeding three seconds. API availability is best-effort, with no guarantees about stability or applicability. It does not provide some site functions, including forums, database editing and account creation. Users can obtain API tokens from the Applications tab in My Profile, and a sandbox endpoint at beta.vndb.org/api/kana is available for testing and development. VNDB's first version went live in September 2007.