No image for some decompress ROM files

[David Maisonave]

I have over 4500 Nintendo DS ROM files, and there's around 500 ROM files that LaunchBox fails to get the associated image files, even when they're decompressed.

These ROM's are in the LaunchBox database under the Nintendo DS platform.

One example is "Densetsu no Stafy 4", which is listed in the following link:

https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/images/23375-densetsu-no-stafy-4

The attached snapshot shows the blank image LaunchBox displays for this ROM.

I've also attached the section of the Nintendo DS.xml which contains the "Densetsu no Stafy 4" game details.

Why isn't LaunchBox finding the associated image, and what can I do to fix this so it gets the images automatically for all 500 ROM's?

I know that I can do this manually, but that would be too much to do for 500 ROM files, so I'm looking for a fix that can address them all programmatically.

FYI: I see this in other platforms, but DS by far has the most problems getting matching images.

Thank you

 

Nintendo DS.xml

[Belgarath]

It won't pull an image because the name of your rom is wrong. You've got it spelt with an i, but it should be spelt with a y. 

Some game entries in the database will have alternate variations of a game's name, but generally if you don't have correctly named roms, you won't get a database match and therefore you won't get any images.

Whether your roms are compressed or uncompressed would generally make no difference unless the rom name for some reason differs from the compressed name.

[David Maisonave]

It won't pull an image because the name of your rom is wrong. You've got it spelt with an i, but it should be spelt with a y.  

Thank you.  Good catch. I complete miss that.

I'll have to look at the other 500 ROM's and check if there similar misspelling.

 

Whether your roms are compressed or uncompressed would generally make no difference unless the rom name for some reason differs from the compressed name. 

For most platforms, that's correct. However, as I proved in another post, there seems to be a LaunchBox bug when processing Nintendo DS platform.  It doesn't grab the image if the file is Zip format.

[David Maisonave]

Whether your roms are compressed or uncompressed would generally make no difference unless the rom name for some reason differs from the compressed name. 

FYI:

Found out what was causing compress files not to display an image in my DS platform. The compress files had double extensions, and that was enough to throw off LaunchBox and prevent it from finding associated images.

Example:

foofoo.nds.zip instead of foofoo.zip