Is there a way to force launch to use images with exact rom name?

[Opus132]

Basically, i wanted to use the same images for both launchbox and MAME. The MAME extras contain a lot of the same media launchbox uses (screenshots, video snaps etc) so i figured a good way not to have double images for everything was to just make symbolic links that point to the same folder so the same images can be used by both launchbox and MAME standalone. Since launchbox can pick up media using the rom name, i figured why not. 

Turns out launchbox picks up ANYTHING that is similar in name. So for instance there's a buttload of roms that have the word "tetris" in the name and all the images named after those roms show up under the same tetris game. 

Is there a way to force launchbox to use images with an EXACT match to the rom name? 

 

 

[sundogak]

36 minutes ago, Opus132 said:

Basically, i wanted to use the same images for both launchbox and MAME. The MAME extras contain a lot of the same media launchbox uses (screenshots, video snaps etc) so i figured a good way not to have double images for everything was to just make symbolic links that point to the same folder so the same images can be used by both launchbox and MAME standalone. Since launchbox can pick up media using the rom name, i figured why not. 

Turns out launchbox picks up ANYTHING that is similar in name. So for instance there's a buttload of roms that have the word "tetris" in the name and all the images named after those roms show up under the same tetris game. 

Is there a way to force launchbox to use images with an EXACT match to the rom name? 

 

 

You cannot force LB to only use ROM named media.  As  you have seen if there is any other named media via title in addition to rom-named media it will add to game as well.  If you have media/image pack with ROM names then easiest is to nuke the media folder specific to MAME and then add your media with ROM name.  However, there is still a gotcha as if you ever edit a game in LB, then LB will merrily rename the media back to LB naming convention of game title (via Database) and a -0# sequence.  There is a useful plugin in download section to rename media back to ROM name but the reality is you have to battle LB's tendency to name things the way it wants. It would be great if there was some way to lock media overall to avoid this but currently no such feature. 

[Opus132]

9 hours ago, sundogak said:

You cannot force LB to only use ROM named media.  As  you have seen if there is any other named media via title in addition to rom-named media it will add to game as well. 

 

But it's not other "title" named media it's just other rom-named media that happens to be similar to the rom the game uses. There is no title named media, just atretris, tetristh, tetrissp2 and so on. 

The thing is that with title named media, launchbox uses a strict match. So if i have Tetris-01, and Tetrish-01, only the first gets picked up, but with rom based names every rom that contains the title somewhere in the name gets picked up, at least for images. For videos, there appears to be a limit of sort. For instance, with Tetris while i have every single image that contains the word tetris in it, for videos i have only two, atetris.mp4 (which is the one that matches the rom), and tetris.mp4, but none of the other rom named snaps (so no tetris1.mp4, tetristh.mp4 etc). 

Before mame all my rom named media was just video snaps which is why i never noticed there's no exact name rule for rom based media, only for title based media, but i guess now i have to keep an eye for this for all other platform as well since emumovies uses rom names for all their videos. Compared to mame it's gonna be super rare there's going to be media with similar rom names but it's still possible i suppose. 

Edited 6 hours ago by Opus132