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Currently I have some minor issues with some artworks. If there are artworks missing for super rare games, no problem, but I'm doing a Best of Games playlist, and it'll be great if it's artworks are complete. I added Aerofighters 2 for the Neo Geo AVS to my collection, and there is artwork in the launchbox db, but it's not downloading, this is the case for some other games, too.

How can I fix this?

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39 minutes ago, schwabbendebibap said:

Currently I have some minor issues with some artworks. If there are artworks missing for super rare games, no problem, but I'm doing a Best of Games playlist, and it'll be great if it's artworks are complete. I added Aerofighters 2 for the Neo Geo AVS to my collection, and there is artwork in the launchbox db, but it's not downloading, this is the case for some other games, too.

How can I fix this?

Do you have the "Scrape As" set to Arcade? That is the recommended setting. I just tested that game it downloaded the images fine.

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1 hour ago, Retro808 said:

Do you have the "Scrape As" set to Arcade? That is the recommended setting. I just tested that game it downloaded the images fine.

I hope it's ok to ask, I mean this is the Noob section, but where do I find that "Scrape as" option? These are also ROMS for the SNK Neo Geo AES, so I wonder why I should scrape them as Arcade.

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11 minutes ago, schwabbendebibap said:

so I wonder why I should scrape them as Arcade.

Because AES and MVS are exactly the same rom, its just the bios that dictates whether it loads in Arcade or Console mode.

12 minutes ago, schwabbendebibap said:

but where do I find that "Scrape as" option?

Right click the platform and edit, second option is "scrape as"

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I set it to "Scrape As Arcade", then I did "Refresh All Media", but it still does not work, maybe I have to delete the Neo Geo AES Images first? And will it download the Arcade artworks then? Because the Neo Geo AES is in the database, I'd like to use it's original artworks, not the Arcade artworks, wheter it's just the Arcade version on a cartridge or not.

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2 hours ago, schwabbendebibap said:

I set it to "Scrape As Arcade", then I did "Refresh All Media", but it still does not work, maybe I have to delete the Neo Geo AES Images first? And will it download the Arcade artworks then? Because the Neo Geo AES is in the database, I'd like to use it's original artworks, not the Arcade artworks, wheter it's just the Arcade version on a cartridge or not.

Refresh simply refreshes the image cache. You need to rerun the Media downloader. Right click that game and edit it. In the Images options choose "download media"

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16 hours ago, Retro808 said:

Refresh simply refreshes the image cache. You need to rerun the Media downloader. Right click that game and edit it. In the Images options choose "download media"

Thank you, this works for most games where artworks are missing, except these games:

- Aero Fighters 2 / Sonic Wings 2 (SNK Neo Geo AES)
- Fatal Fury Special / Garou Densetsu Special (SNK Neo Geo AES)
- The King of Fighters '98: The Slugfest / King of Fighters '98: Dream Match Never Ends (SNK Neo Geo AES)
- The Last Blade / Bakumatsu Roman: Gekka no Kenshi (SNK Neo Geo AES)
- Lemmings (Arcade) [No cover availabel?]
- Pokemon Puzzle League (Nintendo 64)
- Puzzle Bobble / Bust-A-Move (SNK Neo Geo AES)
- Samurai Showdown / Samurai Spirits (SNK Neo Geo AES)
- Sengoku / Sengoku Denshou (SNK Neo Geo AES)
- Spin Master / Miracle Adventure (SNK Neo Geo AES)
- Windjammers / Flying Power Disc (SNK Neo Geo AES)

I'll try to scrape them as Arcade, then downloading the media in the edit menu, like you said. I did this for Aero Fighters 2, but although I scraped it as Arcade, no artworks are shown when I click "Download Media". Finally I'd like to use the original Neo Geo AES artworks, and because there are only these few artworks missing, it wouldn't be a problem to do it manually.

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  • 2 years later...

I had the same problem (media not downloading for some known Genesis ROMs) and figured out how to fix it.

Go to LaunchBox game DB site and find the game. Copy it's title.

Go to metadata editor (select game and press CTRL+E), then paste copied title instead of the title that is filled in (you'll notice it's slightly different), select relevant variant from the dropdown, press button to the right of the textbox ("Update metadata" or something like that).

Go to media tab, now you can download images.

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