What's with Neo Geo games having two names?

[OhBoy]

Like "Aggressors of Dark Kombat / Tsuukai GANGAN Koushinkyoku", no other platform has both the US and Japanese names like this. It's very annoying and makes importing image packs pretty much useless for the platform. Can this be changed in settings somewhere?

Edited May 26, 2023 by OhBoy

[sundogak]

At moment, there is no setting to do what you want automatically. 

That is a MAME team naming process for alternate naming for different regions, not LB.  They don't have separate fields, so they jam all into title name.  LB is simply pulling the data from the MAME xml. The LB database has the alternate game naming fields.  At least for most Neo Geo games, it usually will have three names, NA, Japan, and the combo like MAME XML so when importing it into LB the game matches with LB DB ID.  You can edit the name and strip out the extra once matched; however, if you do a full arcade import again it will revert back to MAME XML name and you will have to do it again.  

Most MAME packs  with media are named after ROM to avoid the title issue, so it won't matter what text name. LB will pick that up and match the images. But an additional hassle comes if you make edits like mentioned above in LB because LB will rename the media to the truncated title complicating future reimports and media matching.  I believe there has been some bit bucket requests to keep media name as ROM. Until then, there is a plugin tool that will rename media to ROM in download section.  Ultimately, that still doesn't resolve the initial dual naming issue which either has to come from MAME team (unlikely) or a feature add in LB to strip the alt name out (don't recall seeing any bit bucket feature request for that).