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How does EmuMovies scrape? If I have a game, does EmuMovies use the LB Games DB ID or does it scrape only using the name of the game?

The reason I ask, is if I have a game like DreamWorks Super Star Kartz, rather than Super Star Kartz will Emu still scrape it or will it need the Super Star Kartz as the game name?

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It will not find the game if you have something else in the name than just the name of the game. It should f.ex. be Super Star Kartz (DreamWorks) as the brackets are omitted. 

If your game is called Super Maria it won't scrape as Super Mario

I think the scraper is quite lame, I use Plex and that scraper is a lot better, it would scrape Super Maria correctly, definitely.

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5 minutes ago, DeadVoivod said:

It will not find the game if you have something else in the name than just the name of the game. It should f.ex. be Super Star Kartz (DreamWorks) as the brackets are omitted. 

If your game is called Super Maria it won't scrape as Super Mario

I think the scraper is quite lame, I use Plex and that scraper is a lot better, it would scrape Super Maria correctly, definitely.

Are you referring to LB scrape or Emu scrape? I understand how LB works, my question is once LB has assigned a ID from the Game DB, then goes on to scrape Emu in the 2nd step, is it using the game title or the ID to scrape for that game?

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1 hour ago, DeadVoivod said:

It will not find the game if you have something else in the name than just the name of the game. It should f.ex. be Super Star Kartz (DreamWorks) as the brackets are omitted. 

If your game is called Super Maria it won't scrape as Super Mario

I think the scraper is quite lame, I use Plex and that scraper is a lot better, it would scrape Super Maria correctly, definitely.

The scraper at import is purposely very strict so that you do not get tons of incorrect matches that you have to manually fix. The scraper when you right click a game, edit, and scrape is less strict and will also show results for other systems, and this is because you are actually looking for one specific game rather than importing hundreds or thousands, this is by design and working 100% as intended.

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7 hours ago, neil9000 said:

The scraper at import is purposely very strict so that you do not get tons of incorrect matches that you have to manually fix. The scraper when you right click a game, edit, and scrape is less strict and will also show results for other systems, and this is because you are actually looking for one specific game rather than importing hundreds or thousands, this is by design and working 100% as intended.

@neil9000 Thx for the reply. From what is appearing to me, when you import games, Launchboxs' code is launching 2 individual scrapes. First, the Launchbox Games DB, then it is initiating a 2nd scrape via the EmuMovies api, and if needed, this info is then put in the temporary queue xml file. Is this the process? Or is it only doing a single scrape on the LB DB, then passing the collected info from that onto the EMU api?

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Okay, let me ask another way. Lets pretend I don't have an EmuMovies account. I got all my roms imported into Launchbox. A rom file is named "Disney's Wreck-It Ralph", LB didn't find it, so I edit the name to "Wreck-It Ralph" in the name field and LB scrapes and finds it using that name, I download media for it, LB adds the Launchbox DB ID#, I accepted it that way, then I edit it again and change the name back to "Disney's Wreck-It Ralph" (which renames the media to match name change.).

Down the road, I decide to purchase a sub for EmuMovies and run the Tools>Download>Update Metadata and Media for Selected Games tool. When LB connects via the api for Emu, what is going to use for it's search criteria? Name of the rom, name of the game (keep in mind I changed it to include the word Disney's), LaunchBox DB ID#.

This is what I am asking? O.o

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We are currently in the process of changing the search criteria used for EmuMovies because running in on EmuMovies server is proving to be too straining on their servers so that logic will all be changing some what. I can tell you that only the rom file name and the games current title are used currently to search though that may change some as we develop the new logic.

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4 hours ago, C-Beats said:

We are currently in the process of changing the search criteria used for EmuMovies because running in on EmuMovies server is proving to be too straining on their servers so that logic will all be changing some what. I can tell you that only the rom file name and the games current title are used currently to search though that may change some as we develop the new logic.

Thank you @C-Beats, that is what I was looking for. I wasn't asking cuz of the current Emu issue, but more on how make sure Emu is scraping best I can. I always try to use no-intro roms, but some just can't be helped. Sounds like I might need to be changing some names and titles.:)

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