spyksaturn Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 Not a noob but couldn't think where else to post this as it seems it may be a helpful time saver for noobs (and myself) if there is an answer. Recently had an issue where I had to reimport my Mame library (from an accident I did myself). I had everything the way I wanted it, however, I have ran into an issue where all the images are no longer showing up and the titles have switched back to the rom name instead of the actual name of the game. I was curious if there happened to be something I am missing where you can auto pull the title names to replace the rom name in the metadata so I would not have to go through and do each one by one. I know a quick way to get all the images back after searching on the forum and also noticed as I changed the names on an individual basis the images came back. Trying to find a time saving way of doing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skizzosjt Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 4 hours ago, spyksaturn said: Trying to find a time saving way of doing this. try seeing what is in Launchbox\Backups. when you made the accident you should have reverted then. hopefully you didn't open/close the program so many times it cycled out a save that would have your library in the good state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyksaturn Posted September 14, 2022 Author Share Posted September 14, 2022 (edited) Oh yeah its been a bit since this happened. I already started fixing the issues so many start up since. Edited September 14, 2022 by spyksaturn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skizzosjt Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 57 minutes ago, spyksaturn said: Oh yeah its been a bit since this happened. I already started fixing the issues so many start up since. keep in mind you can always copy those backup archives to another folder to keep a true forever backup. you don't have to leave them in the default backup folder where they will get get cycled out with newer backup versions the more you open/close the program. So on 2nd thought, why the hell did the ROM's import and assign a "title" as the file name instead of the game title? It suggests you did not "scrape" the ROM's against the correct platform, therefore would not populate metadata and therefore leaves the ROM's file name as the title and more or less everything else blank. Is this what in fact happened, all metadata was empty basically besides the title field, which was populated by the file name? If so, please try re-importing again and be sure you are scraping using the intended platform which would be Arcade. If you wanted you could test with just a single ROM and if that is all it was to fix you up then do your whole library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyksaturn Posted September 14, 2022 Author Share Posted September 14, 2022 (edited) Everything else came in find including videos, descriptions, genres ECT. I could try reimporting but I'm a little hesitant. This was just specifically my mame games. I'll give one a shot. Just read that Edited September 14, 2022 by spyksaturn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skizzosjt Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 Sorry, when I said "whole library" I should have said whole MAME/Arcade library. I didn't mean to reimport your entire LB library of likely many platforms lol. oh boy, that's interesting. you're problem isn't exactly lining up with a scenario I can wrap my head around now. this doesn't make sense to me at this moment. to explain, if things like description and genre were populated it pulled in data from the database and it should have the database ID# in the top right of the game edit window. if that is there it should have pulled in ALL metadata, I don't think there are options to have it only populate certain fields so that is why I think this problem sounds bizarre. do you see that database ID# being filled in, and the link takes you to the correct game webpage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyksaturn Posted September 14, 2022 Author Share Posted September 14, 2022 Correct I do. I'm currently trying to reimport all metadata for arcade games to see if that fixes anything. Everything is under arcade as well. Will see if this fixes anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skizzosjt Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 1 hour ago, spyksaturn said: Correct I do. I'm currently trying to reimport all metadata for arcade games to see if that fixes anything. Everything is under arcade as well. Will see if this fixes anything. OK that is good news! Should be as easy as letting it download the most up-to-date metadata and update your MAME/Arcade library metadata. Fingers crossed! 🤞 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyksaturn Posted September 14, 2022 Author Share Posted September 14, 2022 After trying a couple times it gets stuck at trying to download the bezel packs so I am going to give it another go without those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyksaturn Posted September 15, 2022 Author Share Posted September 15, 2022 So this did not work. Here is the aftermath As you can see the name is still the file name. All metadata shows up fine. At a loss here as manually doing this seems pretty daunting but I will continue if there is no work around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 Probably easiest to just re-import the ROMs. If you're not using the full set import make sure in the ROM import wizard you check the "Force use MAME metadata" and it should scrape the names correctly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyksaturn Posted September 15, 2022 Author Share Posted September 15, 2022 We are good to go. Thanks so much everyone for helping me through this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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