Some DS games are scraping media for the wrong platform

[BrainyCabde]

I just imported my DS collection and noticed some of the games(Bionicle Heroes and COD WAW for example) are scraping media for the wrong platform. Those 2 games scraped the 360 version for those games. This was never a problem for me before. I assume the database ID for the games that are scrapping wrong is the wrong ID. Any idea how to fix this problem. I would rather not have to manually go back and fix all these games since I probably end up with a lot more of these when I start importing NES, SNES, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[BrainyCabde]

Here is a picture showing the problem. I did name the platform Nintendo - DS and scraped it as Nintendo DS, so I don't know why some of these games are scrapping media for different platform versions.

Edited December 11, 2021 by BrainyCabde

[neil9000]

19 minutes ago, BrainyCabde said:

Here is a picture showing the problem. I did name the platform Nintendo - DS and scraped it as Nintendo DS, so I don't know why some of these games are scrapping media for different platform versions.

Nintendo - DS is a custom name, so did you also set the "Scrape As" as Nintendo DS when importing the platform? Also what is the actual file name for that Splinter Cell game?

[BrainyCabde]

Yes, I scraped as Nintendo DS. The Splinter Cell game name as in the folder is this    Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory

[neil9000]

9 minutes ago, BrainyCabde said:

Yes, I scraped as Nintendo DS. The Splinter Cell game name as in the folder is this    Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory

Weird, i don't have Splinter Cell, but i do have Ultimate Spiderman, and that scraped just fine for me. Does it have a database ID?

[BrainyCabde]

Well i've removed the platform since then. I just tried importing just the Splinter Cell game, and there were no problems this time. I'm going to try the whole DS collection again and report back when done.

[BrainyCabde]

False alarm. I ran the import process again and all is good. So thank you @neil9000 for the assistance.

[C-Beats]

Hey @BrainyCabde we see ya. Though right now I'm not entirely sure why you're seeing what you are. Did have a few questions for ya to hope and narrow down the cause to what you're seeing:

When you get the wrong image, what is the exact value in the Platform field of the game?
When you get the wrong image, if you open up the Edit Game window for that item, in the upper right should be a GamesDbId link, can you click that and tell me if you get sent to the correct game page on the GamesDB website?
Have you changed the image path for any of your platforms?
Are you scraping EmuMovies as well on import or only GamesDB?

[C-Beats]

Can you hover over your platform and press Edit for me to bring up the Edit Platform window and take a screenshot of what that first page it opens to looks like?

[BrainyCabde]

Sorry for the late reply @C-Beats. I have imported my Gamecube games and come across the same issue. Here is the screenshot that you had requested before for the Game Gear library, but for the Gamecube collection.

[BrainyCabde]

Here's another picture of the parents structure.

This was all on first attempt. I'm sure second attempt will be fine. So what i've been doing is just running the import process. If the platform appears on the wrong section of parents, I cancel and restart. I can also see the images as they are imported on the games list and tell if there's other platform images being imported. So basically, i've found a workaround. I just don't know why it reacts this way on first try with some platforms. Not a deal breaker, just interesting.

[neil9000]

8 hours ago, BrainyCabde said:

Sorry for the late reply @C-Beats. I have imported my Gamecube games and come across the same issue. Here is the screenshot that you had requested before for the Game Gear library, but for the Gamecube collection.

I asked you this in my very first reply. You have a custom name set "Nintendo - Gamecube" in this case, but you have not set a "Scrape As" it's just a blank field in your image, this is why you get media from all different platforms, you haven't told Launchbox what platform to scrape the platform against, which again is the very first thing i asked you and you said you HAD set that, well it's clearly not set for Gamecube. Also this is the reason Gamecube and Nintendo DS are not in the correct categories, Launchbox does not know what systems they are, so cannot categorize them correctly.

[BrainyCabde]

Yeah, that's the thing. I did set it to scrape those with proper names. It for some reason clears all of that even after having it set right on the first run. Second run, no problem. Either way, it's all good. I figured out a workaround.