Cabirus Posted July 17, 2015 Author Share Posted July 17, 2015 Hi Jason, thanks for the quick integration of Emumovies, makes a huge difference! As I am slowly importing more and more of my collection, here are a few more ideas. When importing, only those games with EXACTLY the same name as in the GamesDB are correctly scraped with info and pictures. Which often means correcting hundreds of games manually. It would be great if Launchbox would in those cases automatically suggest the best matches and let me choose the correct entry. As of now I have to go through the whole list, look for games without metadate, click on "Edit", click on ""Search Metadata", choose the correct game and click on "Download Art". Another suggestion: Many games came out for different platforms. It would be great if LaunchBox would show those different versions in the Game Details and let me switch to those versions if I have them in my collection. I find it fascinating to compare the differences for example between SNES and NES-versions of the same game. I don't know if this feature is possible with the metadata provided by the GamesDB though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 So the first part I believe has been suggested in similar forms in the past, I think its also a good idea too. For the second part, that shouldn't rely at all on where we get the Data necessarily. It would just require both games to have their Platform specified. The big problem which may be what your referring to is figuring out which games go together. Do we automatically find games with the same exact name and automatically link them up? That might be the easiest and quickest solution. Though some games will have slightly different names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Hi @Cabirus, I have an algorithm in place that tries to guess between differing names, but it only works if no other images are found. I did this for performance reasons. In other words, if it finds an image with a proper name, it doesn't look for additional images with improper names. Is this what is happening? Can you give me some examples of games/images that aren't matching up? Per your second suggestion, yeah, that would be cool. The trouble is identifying which games truly are the same game, and which aren't, etc. When we eventually get to creating our own database, we can set it up this way, which should make this possible going forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ps4isthefuture Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Just a reminder many games have a crc attached to them and this could help also maybe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Image files have CRCs in the file names you mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Jason Carr said Image files have CRCs in the file names you mean? No, but I think PS4 is talking about about MD5 hash checks. CRC is another version of that more or less. MD5 though I think you need to create where CRC is inherent. Cyclic redundancy check. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check#Data_integrity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Thanks, Brad; yeah, I know what a CRC is, but I'm not clear on how that would really help with scraping images. I guess we could keep a database of CRCs, but that would probably be fairly problematic considering how many different versions of games there are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Jason Carr said Thanks, Brad; yeah, I know what a CRC is, but I'm not clear on how that would really help with scraping images. I guess we could keep a database of CRCs, but that would probably be fairly problematic considering how many different versions of games there are. Maybe he means applying a specific crc to a platform? This image is for PS1 with this CRC, so this CRC is for the PS1 version? That's all I can vaguely think about. We can already easily accomplish that without one though right? ... Maybe the CRC to detect what rom it is so we know what platform it is? Only problem though is that there are several dozen dumps of each game out there, I can't see that being reliable long term. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabirus Posted July 20, 2015 Author Share Posted July 20, 2015 Hi @Jason, I didn't mean games and images not lining up. What I'm referring to is games that are not scraped at all because the name doesn't exactly match the GamesDB. In those cases it would be great if LaunchBox would not simply skip them, but automatically suggest the best matches and let me choose (just as it does when clicking on "Search Metadata" in the "Edit"-window). What would also be cool: If I could create custom filters like "missing metadata", "missing screenshot", "missing video" and so on. Would help tremendously in perfecting my collection! Concerning game versions for different platforms: I guess in most cases it should be enough to check if the name matches up. However, the GamesDB also supplys the info about "Other Platforms", at least on their website. Maybe this information could be scraped and used in LaunchBox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Thanks @Cabirus. Letting you choose from a list for imports (if not found) is actually planned, and so is allowing you to select "None" in custom filters, which should allow for "missing metadata" and such. I didn't realize that TGDB gave data on other platforms; maybe that's new. I'll take a look at that. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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