Zombeaver

For me it was Korn, Disturbed, TOOL, A Perfect Circle, System of a Down, Deftones, Static X... a lot of "Nu Metal". RAGE!!!

My high school soundtrack consisted almost entirely of Korn.

DP and Marley Marl. I actually really like the Gramatik track though.

Ehhhhh... yeah definitely not my thing To each their own!

I deleted the dupes DOS haha

@DOS76 never been a big Hip-Hop guy myself though I occasionally take dips (I enjoyed that Aesop Rock song more than I expected, actually). I'm not sure if you'd like this but I really dig it. The New Law is this weird post-apocalyptic wild west themed trip-hop band... Most of their songs are instrumental in full disclosure.

Cool. Yeah I'm familiar with Zero 7 and Bonobo. Here are a few of my own compositions that you might dig. My stuff tends to be...a little all over the place in style but these are some that are in the same kinda vein: A lot of my stuff is instrumental but I did some vocals for this one:

Nice @alexis524! I like it! Have you ever listened to The American Dollar? You might like their stuff.

So how does this work exactly? Is this something I can use to package the various types of custom images I've uploaded here? One concern I've had is with platform naming - not everybody uses the same platform names (like NeoGeo vs Neo Geo vs SNK Neo Geo etc.) so is this something that themes can detect and compensate for? Thanks as always!

@lordmonkus yeah absolutely. I could see people saying that Synthwave is all the same, and there are some bands out there that certainly are just super-derivative, but if I hear a track by Carpenter Brut, for example, I know that it's a Carpenter Brut song as soon as I hear it, even if I've never heard the song before. There's just a distinctive style/sound to it. And like you said, if it's something that you find yourself with a lot of affinity for (and familiarity with) in general, the nuances are going to be more pronounced to you than most. For the record, I think Carpenter Brut would be a great Synthwave "gateway band" for metal-heads out there - there's a certain metal sensibility to a lot of it (as retarded as that may sound), even if the instrumentation is obviously completely different. If you like horror movies from the 80's, even better

To some degree yeah, but the reason I mention it specifically here is that it seems more pronounced than in other genres; to me anyway. Similarity is one thing, but to me albums like Dopethrone are effectively one big muddy, sludgey, fuzzy jumble where one track has little perceptible difference with those surrounding it. I certainly couldn't name a single track title if someone played say 10-second clips of them. I could with the vast majority of other music I listen to. I get that that's kinda "the point", I'm just saying that's why I can only listen to it for brief periods.

Fair enough. I can listen to that kind of stuff in limited doses - I think a lot of it can end up being a bit samey and overlong though. I thought Electric Wizard were awesome when I first found them but I feel like most of their songs are fairly indistinguishable from one another haha. Detuned Fuzz: The Musical

Great! If you ever do decide that you want to add art for anything after the fact, the images just need to be placed in whatever folder you want for the appropriate image type (like "Boxes - Front") and match either the game title or rom file name. You can, of course, also add them manually to a game entry by editing the entry, right-clicking in the image section to the bottom right and selecting "add", browsing to whatever image you want, and then choosing whatever image type you want to categorize it as.

So much angst! Doesn't anybody around here listen to anything that doesn't make you want to punch something/someone?

Don't get me wrong, we greatly appreciate those sort of contributions! Jason's got a massive workload so external legwork like this is awesome! It's just that ScummVM specifically is a bit of an odd duck haha There is no real importing of ScummVM per se; not in the same sense as other platforms. You basically have to build the entries from scratch in your library. I've got a list of instructions here. The actually scraping is the simplest part of the entire process. The metadata will be scraped from either DOS or Windows depending on the game (most are DOS). It's just everything else that's a bit on the unwieldy side

Welp, there it is then. If you were to import any rom files in association with any emulator other than MAME itself (even a MAME core of Retroarch) it doesn't automatically apply that option and you should see the box.

Actually... what emulator are you using for these? Are you using MAME proper or a Retroarch core? If you're actually using MAME as the emulator I believe it just uses that function automatically. I have it defaulted to Retroarch so it doesn't for me.

I'm not sure what to tell you there. It's not a premium feature as far as I know. I guess as long as it's taking you to the MAME import screen that's the important part...

I'm a little confused as to what that would be used for, as far as ScummVM importing. Scraping metadata in and of itself has never been the issue with ScummVM importing - it's that you don't have a traditional rom "file" like other emulator+rom combos; you're directing it to a folder that contains the relevant data files. The way you do that is via the drop-down menu in the ScummVM tab of the game entry:

By the way, the option I was talking about earlier is the last box on this screen in the import wizard (these are the default checks for this screen): If that box is left unchecked and you try to import Aero Fighters for example (aerofgt), this is what you'll get on the final screen (where it shows the title that it will import it as): If you do check it, you'll then be taken to a special import screen specifically for MAME: Leaving it with the default options (as pictured above), hitting next then gives you this as the final screen of the import (the actual game title):

Honestly I've moved from "on the fence" to "mostly disinterested" the more I've actually seen of it and read/watched about it. Looks/sounds like a very standard open-world-survival-crafting game not unlike pretty much any other just "bigger" in a very shallow sense. "Width of the ocean depth of a kiddie-pool" is a phrase I've heard repeatedly. I'll pick it up when it's way on sale, hopefully after they add something substantial to it.

As long as you drop them all in the boxes - front folder like Cid said, they'll automatically appear for your existing game entries so long as they match either the game title or the rom name. You just have to refresh your image cache.

Yep, what @CriticalCid is correct. That's why I say to keep in mind there are going to be gaps. It's not like a SNES game where you've got actual box art. For arcade games you're basically dealing with posters. Yep, if you select Box - Front, it'll show up if you're showing "Boxes". The reason there are multiple categories beyond what's in the view options is because of image priorities. You can choose to prioritize certain types of boxes over others in the priority list.

The images don't come from emumovies/wiki anyway - they come from the games DB which is included in the basic scrape. Keep in mind that there are going to be MAME titles that simply have no cover art (especially considering the number of games you're talking about). Some may have cover art but aren't in the games DB yet. I normally use The Arcade Flyer Museum to help fill in gaps along with Google images to a lesser degree.

The verbiage may be slightly different, that was just from memory. It's definitely there. It should say something like "use MAME names".