Can't find a game...

[angelobodetti]

Hi All,

I know for a fact that I have Super Mario Advance in my LaunchBox collection but when I search for it or browse to it I cannot find it. I even re-imported it but it said "imported 0 roms" because i assume it is already imported.

Is there a way to search by file name? Any clue why i can't find it?

Thank you!

[Rincewind]

Is there a chance it's called "Super_Mario_Advance" maybe try searching for that

[angelobodetti]

I searched everything, even just mario as well as going game by game in LB.

[Rincewind]

ok so I have just checked mine and have the same results as you I have the ROM but it never imported I also have "Super Mario Advance 2 / 3 and 4" and they are showing fine so I will need to look into it a little further to see why its not importing properly

[Rincewind]

So I just tried to re-import the ROM and I even copied and renamed the file without the (USA) and same thing happened as you, 0 games imported.... this is strange.

Does anyone have Super Mario Advance showing in there collection at all?

[angelobodetti]

7 hours ago, Rincewind said:

So I just tried to re-import the ROM and I even copied and renamed the file without the (USA) and same thing happened as you, 0 games imported.... this is strange.

Does anyone have Super Mario Advance showing in there collection at all?

Weird right? I wonder what other games might be like this.

[Rincewind]

I'm going to grab a new version of the ROM and see if that works. Yes there could be more like this maybe @SentaiBrad has the game on his set up or @DOS76 as I know they have a lot of systems set up

[Charco]

I have it in my collection anyway, all four of them. I think I recall having to rename one as it pulled in the wrong video and clear logo or something. In your screenshot @Rincewind the video is from Super Mario Advance: Super Mario Bros. 2 instead of Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World. Here's a screenshot from mine:

 

[neil9000]

I have just checked my collection and I have it but it seems to of scraped wrong, I have 2 super Mario advanced 2 in there but the second one is wrong, its actually super Mario advance.

[neil9000]

Its named correctly in my files, but has scraped wrong.

[DOS76]

yeah mine was just like Neils but that is something I've noticed that LB has difficulties differentiating between part one and two of game series and you will get a dupe that isn't really a dupe

[neil9000]

1 minute ago, DOS76 said:

yeah mine was just like Neils but that is something I've noticed that LB has difficulties differentiating between part one and two of game series and you will get a dupe that isn't really a dupe

Yeah must be a scraping issue, as the game is called Super Mario Advance, but the actual game on the cart is Super Mario Brothers 2. So it seems to be trying to match all parts of the name which has a 2 in it and is therefore scraping wrong.

[neil9000]

Yeah look at the database entry, its got a 2 in the name so is getting confused.

[DOS76]

No it happens with other part 1 and 2 games though in my experience its just a coincidence that these both have a 2 somewhere in the title.

Edited April 8, 2017 by DOS76

[neil9000]

Oh, OK. I cant say that I have ever noticed that, but to be fair I have not checked for it either so I could have missing/wrongly named roms all over my collection, but if I have then they are games I don't play, as I haven't noticed any.

[SentaiBrad]

Yea, root names is a problem. If a game shares a part of it's name with another game, regardless of anything else, it can get found easily and this is a prime example. I've seen reports of this several times in the past and there's no real way to fix sadly.

Also, to make things easier next time, load up LaunchBox and edit the game in question. Check the path and it will tell you exactly what rom it's using. I even have the rom file name in my game details bar set to on.

[Rincewind]

Thanks all that clears that up, so it's a case of find the ROM that scraped as something else and manually change its images, video and metadata

[DOS76]

Yeah I agree with Brad file name in the Details pane is a must makes it much easier to fix any dupes if you can see which file is represented by an entry.

[Rincewind]

Sorted it out in the end by....

• deleting = Super Mario Advance 2 - Super Mario World
• changing = Super Mario Advance (USA, Europe) too = Super Mario Advance - Super Mario Bros 2
• then import (drag into LaunchBox) = Super Mario Advance - Super Mario Bros 2 and = Super Mario Advance 2 - Super Mario World
• once imported only one video downloads and that is for the wrong game so rename it too the other rom name and then download the correct video for the other one from EmuMovies

Thanks @angelobodetti I wasn't even bothered until I realized it was wrong please dont find any more hahahah 

[SentaiBrad]

Yea, I've had to clear metadata and images in the edit panel, then rescan for a new game several times. It can very easily happen to too generic of game titles most easily.