auto populated genres...only two games?

[damageinc86]

I'm going through my super nintendo auto populated genres, and under coooperative, there are two games.  Contra III, and Pocky & Rocky.  I've noticed that a lot of the other auto-populated genres seem to not really have all the games that could or should be there.  So I'm just curious how reliable the genres are?  Are those really the only two co-op games for Super Nintendo?

[neil9000]

I wouldnt call co-op games a genre personally, its a game mode, not a genre. As for the auto populated playlist then they obviously rely on the metadata you have for your games, if that metadata isnt available then they wont populate in that playlist.

[damageinc86]

On 4/29/2020 at 10:45 AM, neil9000 said:

I wouldnt call co-op games a genre personally, its a game mode, not a genre. As for the auto populated playlist then they obviously rely on the metadata you have for your games, if that metadata isnt available then they wont populate in that playlist.

Yes it's a game mode in that particular example, I'm just calling it a genre, as they show up together in bigbox.  I thought that launchbox db is where all the metadata came from, so I was surprised that the database only picked out two for that.  Then the further I got into this, the more I realized that sometimes metadata isn't 100% on some systems' games, and I had to check box some additional genres that the game really should be in so that it would show in the right playlist. 

I also noticed that when I scraped one of my systems to try to get fresh metadata only, it ended up deleting a bunch of box art.  I did not have any artwork checked, it was for metadata only (in an attempt to maybe find some new genres applied since I first imported).  So that was a bummer to have to go back through and  get box art again.  Is that a known bug? or just my luck? lol.

Edited May 3, 2020 by damageinc86