Wii games importing issue

[eacochran]

So I'm having a problem with about half of my Wii library. They're in wbfs format and I had them all get imported into Subfolders with the Game's Title and Year. Well, half of them were put into a Subfolder with their TitleID (ex: Gold's Gym: Cardio Workout was put in a subfolder named REKE41) and now when I try to import them, it doesn't put them in the folders with the games title and year. My wbfs files are named [TitleID].wbfs.  All of them are, so I'm confused as to why only some of them imported correctly and the rest did not.

So my questions are:

Do Wii Games NEED to be in subfolders (considering there's files large enough to be split into WBFS/WBF1 formats Like smash bros) with the game title's or can they just be all in one spot at the same time?

Is there a way to have launch box read all of these games and rename them based off of some title database that corelates with the Games TitleID without having to manually go through and rename all of them myself, 1-by-1?

 

I have tried changing the subfolder name to the game's title and reimporting and I've also tried renaming the wbfs file to the game's title and reimporting. The renaming game file sorta worked, but no metadata is being downloaded when I try to redownload metadata for selected game. I know there's SOME metadata because I got a lot of it from the EmuMovies Server.

Edited December 19, 2021 by eacochran

[Chris Kant]

If I am correct then you need to have the game name from the Launchbox Gamedatabase of that specific game and not the code/titleID to import the games. sometime games have the TitleID as an alternative Name in the Database but normally not. At all, I do not have any game in my library as bfs anymore and use the rvz format - most of the time the games are smaller. I converted them by myself. during this process the tool convert the game from bfs to iso and renamed it to Titel / title ID. and with Dolphin I did the conversion to RVZ. at the end I had the right naming without a lot of manual work 🙂 

 

I am not aware of such function in Launchbox.  

[DeadVoivod]

My Wii games are in .ciso and .wad (WiiWare) format. 

[eacochran]

On 12/20/2021 at 5:44 AM, Chris Kant said:

If I am correct then you need to have the game name from the Launchbox Gamedatabase of that specific game and not the code/titleID to import the games. sometime games have the TitleID as an alternative Name in the Database but normally not. At all, I do not have any game in my library as bfs anymore and use the rvz format - most of the time the games are smaller. I converted them by myself. during this process the tool convert the game from bfs to iso and renamed it to Titel / title ID. and with Dolphin I did the conversion to RVZ. at the end I had the right naming without a lot of manual work 🙂 

 

I am not aware of such function in Launchbox.  

That's good to know. I did some comparisons between WBFS and RZV formats and the compression is smaller, but idk if I want to download bulk rzv files when I already have them in WBFS format- UNLESS OF COURSE there's some way to convert them al at the same time and not one-by-one. 

 

But when it comes to Wii games for launch box, do they have to be in folders? Or can they just be in the "..LaunchBox/Games/Nintendo Wii" folder?

[Chris Kant]

you can batch convert the files from wbfs to iso and after that you can batch convert them from iso to rvz.