Picking wrong region?

[ChunkyLoverMark]

Hi all,

 

So what's the correct way to get Launchbox to choose the correct artwork and game title for the correct region of my game?

This is one of many examples but my Rom is titled as Star Wing (Europe), I selected Europe as the Region tp prioritise and Launchbox has given me the US title and US artwork of Star Fox. I know I can fix this, game by game in Launchbox but how can I stop this from happening in the first place? 

 

Thank you.

 

 

Edited February 14 by ChunkyLoverMark

[faeran]

This is actually an issue with region tagging on the Games Database. If you notice, there's no Europe box on the Games DB for this game. We have a fairly lengthy set of fallback systems in place for this scenario, and it looks like none of the fallback scenarios were hit until the very last one (actually the Android app is missing some of these fallbacks that the Windows app has), which is a hard coded set of region priorities where the NA box is probably set as one of the higher priorities, and therefore, since it found an NA box, it downloaded it.

If you look on the GamesDB, there looks to be a bunch of other countries with a box front, but not one for Europe.

The simple solution there would be to get a box front on the Games Database with the Europe tag on it. I've adjusted one myself and I'll try and quicken the process to a GamesDB metadata file update so I can test and confirm without having to wait 24 hours for the server-side metadata rebuild.

 

[ChunkyLoverMark]

Thanks for the reply, I do want to learn more about the LaunchBox DB but don't know alot currently. When I search for Star Fox I see a European front box as the second image? 

 

But when I search for Star Wing I just get a Promotional cartridge: 

Why would Star Wing not show up in search when it's listed as a Alternative title to Star Fox? I would assume that it would also search for alternate titles in the search?

[ChunkyLoverMark]

Is it because it needs typing as one word? That being said my ROM is typed as one word and that's not picking it up.

[faeran]

On 2/16/2025 at 12:03 PM, ChunkyLoverMark said:

Is it because it needs typing as one word? That being said my ROM is typed as one word and that's not picking it up.

Yeah, it's because the name search on the GamesDB uses the main name and any alternate names.

The alternate name for this game is "Starwing", so when you search "Star Wing", it wouldn't find this particular game.