Z3R0B4NG Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 just wondering because i stumbled over this: https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/34084 the first one says Nickelodeon on the cover, but that is not something anyone would include in the title (and is not included in the existing DB entry as is) the second game does not have a DB entry yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Combine them into one game entry, and choose the game that you want as the front facing one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Are they the same game one looks based of the cartoon the other the movie don't know why you would combine them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 12 minutes ago, DOS76 said: Are they the same game one looks based of the cartoon the other the movie don't know why you would combine them. Fair point if that's the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Normally I would guess that would be handled like movies, and the year would be appended after the name, but I'm not really positive on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 I would add the Nickelodeon to the title to differentiate it from the other game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Kant Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 this is already an longer discussion which affect a lot of the old games on Amiga / C64 and so on generations. I do it a lot with trail and error Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z3R0B4NG Posted March 8, 2018 Author Share Posted March 8, 2018 ok, i've added the Nickelodeon bit in front and the change went through tonight, guess i'll add the other game now. but in general, would it be possible to have 2 games in the DB for the same system with an identical name or would this produce problems, i mean the entries would technically still have a different ID in the DB? LaunchBox would of course get confused which one to pick when adding roms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z3R0B4NG Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 (edited) ok, update: so it turns out the Metadata search function thingy in LaunchBox fails to find the nickelodeon game completely if you just have "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" as the filename. You need to manually type in Nickelodeon in front of it for the entry to show up at all (that requires some level of mind reading capability, i don't think anyone would actually do that) I don't like that "nickeloden" name in front anyway because it messes with the alphabetical order (muh OCD!), i want the TMNT games to be together... So, attempt number 2: I just do like Amazon does! "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", no nickelodeon and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Movie" makes more sense to add "- The Movie" at the end (more intuitive), the search should then also show both entries, i hope. ( i know, this bothers me more than it should ;P ) Edited March 10, 2018 by Z3R0B4NG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 The way it is working makes way more sense to me than appending the movie onto the title when that isn't the title of the game one of our DB standards is to use the box title. We have many games that have Disney on the front of them because that is how the box labels them and yes other sites sometime have them listed without the Disney part on them but regardless that is how we are doing it. I hope that it doesn't cause you that much of an issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Also you can add a sort title to the game and get it to show with your other TMNT games in LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polygonslayer Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Could be an argument for adding the barcode/catalogue/part/serial number? Like the SLES, SCES etc. on PS1 games for example. Although we would still have the issue for older consoles/computers and I presume it would require some serious rewrite in how LB finds the games on the database? I've dealt with this issue in the past by manually altering the rom name by adding the developer/publisher behind it like this <gamename>_Activision.<extension>. Then manually adding the meta data for said games if LB has problems picking up the right one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuriousGeorge Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 I've been wondering the appropriate way to handle this myself. I've been adding several re-released games (different dev/pub) on older systems and they've been scraping/identifying as the original or visa-versa. Wouldn't be so bad if it didn't gum-up all of my artwork and the manuals/vids auto-renamed like the images do. Some of the re-releases are very different games and should definitely have DB entries themselves, but I don't want to gum things up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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