I can't download all the images in the database

[Eyebrows Cat]

Latest Launchbox beta(13.17 beta2)

For example, Super Punch-Out for SNES

https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/images/1271-super-punch-out

There are 26 images on the web, but if I check all of them and download them from Launchbox, I can only download 16.

[skizzosjt]

I think it only downloads region appropriate images. ie if there are 4 different box art front images, and you prioritize USA/North America, it's not going to also download a Spain, Germany, and France version, etc. Based on the number of (region specific) images that are not USA/North America, only getting 16 images sounds on par.

Maybe if you change your region priorities it would download them all.

[faeran]

1 minute ago, skizzosjt said:

I think it only downloads region appropriate images. ie if there are 4 different box art front images, and you prioritize USA/North America, it's not going to also download a Spain, Germany, and France version, etc. Based on the number of (region specific) images that are not USA/North America, only getting 16 images sounds on par.

Maybe if you change your region priorities it would download them all.

This is pretty much right. It's more based on the ROM itself though. For example, if you have a game from North America, it looks for North American images for it.

It's more complicated than that, but that's the reason you see less images than what's on the GamesDB.

[Eyebrows Cat]

Thank you both for your answers.

So this means that even if you use a Japanese ROM, if there is a North American version of the game, only the North American version images will be downloaded.
I don't need the North American version images so this is very inconvenient.
I hope that they will change the system to either refer to the region set for each game, or download all the images and then manually delete the ones I don't need.

I used Google Translate, so I apologize if the text is difficult to understand.

[faeran]

8 hours ago, Eyebrows Cat said:

Thank you both for your answers.

So this means that even if you use a Japanese ROM, if there is a North American version of the game, only the North American version images will be downloaded.
I don't need the North American version images so this is very inconvenient.
I hope that they will change the system to either refer to the region set for each game, or download all the images and then manually delete the ones I don't need.

I used Google Translate, so I apologize if the text is difficult to understand.

Not at all. Actually the opposite.

The idea is that if you import a Japanese ROM, and it's clear that the game is indeed a game from Japan, and there's a Japanese image on the GamesDB that can be downloaded for it, we download that for you.

If the game doesn't have any identifiable region, we use your Region Priority to determine which image to download.

There's more steps than that, but hopefully that clears things up a bit.

[Eyebrows Cat]

14 hours ago, faeran said:

Not at all. Actually the opposite.

The idea is that if you import a Japanese ROM, and it's clear that the game is indeed a game from Japan, and there's a Japanese image on the GamesDB that can be downloaded for it, we download that for you.

If the game doesn't have any identifiable region, we use your Region Priority to determine which image to download.

There's more steps than that, but hopefully that clears things up a bit.

I have registered a Japanese ROM, and there is a Japanese version front image in the database.
However, when I download the image, the Japanese version front image is not downloaded.
Is there a way to download the Japanese version front image from the Launchbox user interface?

[Eyebrows Cat]

The ROM is definitely the Japanese version.

[faeran]

Your video shows what the issue is. You have nothing listed in the Region field. Fill it in with the correct region, save the change, then go back in and run the media downloader again.

[Eyebrows Cat]

In your explanation, you say, "When using a Japanese ROM, the images for the Japanese ROM will be automatically downloaded to the database."
Your answer doesn't say that you need to set the region even if you use a Japanese ROM.
If it is essential that LaunchBox automatically recognizes it, we won't know unless you write that.
Your answer is a little insufficient.

PS
Apart from this question, I would like to request a function that allows me to download all images in the database.

Thank you.

[Eyebrows Cat]

The reasons for requesting "the ability to download all images" are as follows.

Example: Even if the region for the Super Nintendo version of "Super Punch-Out" is set to JAPAN, JAPAN fan art is not downloaded.

[Eyebrows Cat]

On 10/4/2024 at 11:48 AM, faeran said:

Not at all. Actually the opposite.

The idea is that if you import a Japanese ROM, and it's clear that the game is indeed a game from Japan, and there's a Japanese image on the GamesDB that can be downloaded for it, we download that for you.

If the game doesn't have any identifiable region, we use your Region Priority to determine which image to download.

There's more steps than that, but hopefully that clears things up a bit.

I've been doing some testing since then, but for example, "Valis: The Fantasm Soldier Collection (https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/images/157488-valis-the-fantasm-soldier-collection)" for Nintendo Switch

① Automatically registers Japanese ROMs. It links to the database at the URL above, and clicking it will take you to the corresponding page in the database.

② Manually set the region to Japan.

③ Download all images.

Even with this procedure, the "Front Box (Japan)" image in the database will not be downloaded.

[Eyebrows Cat]

16 minutes ago, Eyebrows Cat said:

それ以来、いくつかのテストを行っていますが、例えば、Nintendo Switch用の「ヴァリス：ザ・ファンタズム・ソルジャー・コレクション（https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/images/157488-valis-the-fantasm-soldier-collection）」

①日本語ROMを自動登録します。上記URLのデータベースにリンクしており、クリックするとデータベース内の該当ページに移動します。

②地域を手動で日本に設定します。

③全ての画像をダウンロードします。

この手順を実行しても、データベース内の「Front Box (Japan)」画像はダウンロードされません。

その後原因がわかりました。

リージョンを日本に変えた後、そのまま画像をダウンロードすると日本の画像はダウンロードされませんが、リージョンを変えた後に一度OKを押して設定画面を閉じ、もう一度開いてから画像をダウンロードすると正常にダウンロードされるようです。

これは正常な動作なのか不具合なのかこちらではわかりません。

この動作はLaunchboxの正常な動作なのでしょうか？

[Eyebrows Cat]

There was a problem with the logic of some image types, which will be fixed in the future.