pandawanka

Honestly, regardless of the process, I think as long as the results are the same then it's still fine. And that example was just one example I could think of off the top of my head, but there are a few more cases where it's happened and I've had to manually scrape a lot of games though. Huh, I actually have mixed feelings on that. If the scraper was improved to have better recognition and be able to identify games better then yes, it would solve most of the problem, but it feels less accurate than if the games were scraped to be an exact match of the No-Intro set. I mean, the whole reason people use DATs is so that their sets are as perfect as possible, so leaving it up to the scraper to guess the actual game through title matching and fuzzy logic kind of defeats the purpose of being OCD. I have had cases where the scraper has failed me entirely though - like when it scraped my Ys game as another game which had no resemblance to Ys, but generally the scraper does do an amazing job.

Hey, so I've been moderating for a while, and I've been wondering - should we start adding names on the DB according to No-Intro naming conventions? I usually curate my games with the No-Intro lists, so if we change names or at least add alternate names on the DB which correspond exactly to the No-Intro lists it should make scraping some games a lot easier. For example, No-Intro usually names games like The Legend of Zelda as "Legend of Zelda, The", which doesn't get scraped correctly on Launchbox. So I guess what I'm asking is - will there ever be a feature to update Launchbox DB with No-Intro/TOSEC/Redump conventions or data? Cause that would would be great for achieving parity with other game databases across the web.

Thanks for the tip! So for the stuff that still doesn't get parsed correctly, I'll have to add manually? Is there a way I can rename the files so that it's easier for Launchbox to find in the DB? I've been adding as many games as I can to the DB as well, so hopefully anything I don't find will be added to the DB in the process. The goal is to add the entire FB Alpha library then also figure out what parameters would be good defaults!

Okay, so I added my FB Alpha rom list to Launchbox, and most games were parsed correctly, but there are a lot of roms which didn't get synced to Launchbox DB, so I've been sorting them one by one by searching for their meta data one by one. Is there any easier way to do this before I end up having to do all 4000 unparsed games by hand one by one?