gordon99 Posted September 18, 2020 Posted September 18, 2020 Hi - I've used the ROM import tool to import some SNES ROMs. I scraped the meta data and images with LB and emumovie. Some of the ROMs have been imported with a period / "." before the names. Of about 700 Roms about 20 have this. It looks like it's scraped some metadata for these ROMs but no image etc. See screen image I have attached. For example Super Tennis appears as ". Super Tennis" I'm currently running the free version of LB vers 11.6. I love it and if I can get this working I'll upgrade. Windows 10 on a PC Thanks for any help. Quote
C-Beats Posted September 18, 2020 Posted September 18, 2020 This is because of the weird naming used in your file. Your actual rom file/zip has a leading "._" in it that is causing confusion for the importer. Quote
gordon99 Posted September 18, 2020 Author Posted September 18, 2020 No - if I go into windows explorer the zip file does not have a leading "." and if I open the zip the .sfc file does not have a leading "." Maybe because there are some Sample ROMs? e.g. I have two versions "Madden NFL 96 (USA)" and "Madden NFL 96 (USA) (Sample)" Is there a way to force matching for individual titles? I can go back through these odd ones and force a match in the database. Thanks for your help. Quote
neil9000 Posted September 18, 2020 Posted September 18, 2020 4 minutes ago, gordon99 said: No - if I go into windows explorer the zip file does not have a leading "." and if I open the zip the .sfc file does not have a leading "." Maybe because there are some Sample ROMs? e.g. I have two versions "Madden NFL 96 (USA)" and "Madden NFL 96 (USA) (Sample)" Is there a way to force matching for individual titles? I can go back through these odd ones and force a match in the database. Thanks for your help. If you take a second look at the image in your original post you will see in the game details bar at the right of the screen the actual file name. In your case it says "._Super Tennis (USA) (Arcade).zip" (without the quotes), so your actual file is in fact named that way. Quote
DeadVoivod Posted September 18, 2020 Posted September 18, 2020 (edited) Other question, out of curiosity, why do you KEEP samples? Edited September 18, 2020 by DeadVoivod Quote
gordon99 Posted September 18, 2020 Author Posted September 18, 2020 42 minutes ago, neil9000 said: Iso your actual file is in fact named that way. That really is weird. I'm not seeing that name in windows explorer. Or if I look in the zipfile. Must have some funky ROMs... 40 minutes ago, DeadVoivod said: Other question, out of curiosity, why do you KEEP samples? Yeah, I'm gonna delete them! Thanks all Quote
neil9000 Posted September 18, 2020 Posted September 18, 2020 6 minutes ago, gordon99 said: That really is weird. I'm not seeing that name in windows explorer. Or if I look in the zipfile. Must have some funky ROMs... Yeah, I'm gonna delete them! Thanks all Looks like a MacOS issue. https://support.jungledisk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200812844-Why-are-we-seeing-copies-of-files-starting-with-periods-and-underscores-in-Windows- Quote
gordon99 Posted September 18, 2020 Author Posted September 18, 2020 25 minutes ago, neil9000 said: Looks like a MacOS issue. Yes, a Mac was involved in my workflow... I have now 'added files' and not 'added folder' and that seems to work fine and removes the ".". <shrug> Really odd... Thanks, super-helpful community! Quote
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