Cannot scrap Resident Evil 4 Remake from Steam correctly

[51mm5]

When I try scraping the above game from the PC it scrapes Resident Evil 4 (2005) which is the wrong one.  When I try editing it, it doesn't give me any other options other than Resident Evil 4 (2005).  I've tried deleing the game a re-scraping it but it does the same thing.  Anyone have any idea on how to resolve?

 

Edited March 1 by 51mm5

[JoeViking245]

2 hours ago, 51mm5 said:

When I try editing it, it doesn't give me any other options

• Click the red X next to LaunchBox DB ID
• For the Title, type in "resident evil 4 remake"
• It will show "Resident Evil 4 (Deluxe Edition)"
  • select it
• Go to the Alternate Names section
• Select "Resident Evil 4: Remake"
• Click "Set Selected Name as Title"
• Click OK to save and close

[51mm5]

On 3/1/2026 at 12:04 PM, JoeViking245 said:

• Click the red X next to LaunchBox DB ID
• For the Title, type in "resident evil 4 remake"
• It will show "Resident Evil 4 (Deluxe Edition)"
  • select it
• Go to the Alternate Names section
• Select "Resident Evil 4: Remake"
• Click "Set Selected Name as Title"
• Click OK to save and close

Thanks for your reply.  It still doesn't provide any other option:

[JoeViking245]

4 minutes ago, 51mm5 said:

It still doesn't provide any other option:

Try... Go to Tools - Download - Force Update Games Database Metadata. When that's completed, try again

[51mm5]

19 hours ago, JoeViking245 said:

Try... Go to Tools - Download - Force Update Games Database Metadata. When that's completed, try again

 

Hi 

Unfortunately, no success still only gives Resident Evil 2005 as the option.  This game was scraped directly from my Steam account.  Is there a way to add it manually?

[JoeViking245]

Oh, it's a Steam game?  What its Steam ID #?  (In the games Launching section, the Application Path should by something like "steam://rungameid/21130".)

Continuing with these Q&A's will help determine what's-going-on, why-it's-happening (hopefully) and give the developers and idea how-to-fix-it for this situation so other don't come across this in the future.

 

 

If you just want to do a brute force fix-the-dang-thing...

• Save it with the game that's found
  • Resident Evil 4 (2005)
  • and the LBDB ID # showing as 7801
  • 
• Exit LaunchBox
• In Windows Explorer
  • Navigate to /LaunchBox/Data/Platforms/
  • Open Windows.xml using any text editor
  • Search for <DatabaseID>7801</DatabaseID>
  • Replace 7801 with 261464
    • <DatabaseID>261464</DatabaseID>
  • Save and close the file
• Open LaunchBox
• Select [only] your Resident Evil 4 (2005) game
• Tools - Download - Update Metadata and Media for Selected Games
  • When asked "Would you like to update games with existing metadata and/or media?"
  • Select "Yes, download and replace all existing metadata and media" (the 1st option)
• Click finish to "grab the correct games data"

Now you can

• Edit the game
• Go to the Alternate Names section
• Select "Resident Evil 4: Remake"
• Click "Set Selected Name as Title"
• Click OK to save and close

[51mm5]

3 hours ago, JoeViking245 said:

Oh, it's a Steam game?  What its Steam ID #?  (In the games Launching section, the Application Path should by something like "steam://rungameid/21130".)

Continuing with these Q&A's will help determine what's-going-on, why-it's-happening (hopefully) and give the developers and idea how-to-fix-it for this situation so other don't come across this in the future.

 

 

If you just want to do a brute force fix-the-dang-thing...

• Save it with the game that's found
  • Resident Evil 4 (2005)
  • and the LBDB ID # showing as 7801
  • 
• Exit LaunchBox
• In Windows Explorer
  • Navigate to /LaunchBox/Data/Platforms/
  • Open Windows.xml using any text editor
  • Search for <DatabaseID>7801</DatabaseID>
  • Replace 7801 with 261464
    • <DatabaseID>261464</DatabaseID>
  • Save and close the file
• Open LaunchBox
• Select [only] your Resident Evil 4 (2005) game
• Tools - Download - Update Metadata and Media for Selected Games
  • When asked "Would you like to update games with existing metadata and/or media?"
  • Select "Yes, download and replace all existing metadata and media" (the 1st option)
• Click finish to "grab the correct games data"

Now you can

• Edit the game
• Go to the Alternate Names section
• Select "Resident Evil 4: Remake"
• Click "Set Selected Name as Title"
• Click OK to save and close

Thanks, quick question.  I have the 2005 version as well as the remake (the one that is titled wrong), would doing the above "break" the 2005, which is titled correctly?

[JoeViking245]

3 minutes ago, 51mm5 said:

Thanks, quick question.  I have the 2005 version as well as the remake (the one that is titled wrong), would doing the above "break" the 2005, which is titled correctly?

If you have both, you'll have 2 "<DatabaseID>7801</DatabaseID>". 

Only change one of them.  The correct one. Based on the Steam ID#.  (I don't have either, so the screenshot is just an example)

[51mm5]

Thanks I was able to change the title to Resident Evil 4 Remake.  Strange thought its cannot pick it from the database but the title is correct now.  Thanks for your help

[JoeViking245]

You never did mention the Steam ID #'s.   Troubleshooting-data aside, glad it's fixed.

[51mm5]

1 hour ago, JoeViking245 said:

You never did mention the Steam ID #'s.   Troubleshooting-data aside, glad it's fixed.

Opps sorry

steam://rungameid/254700 - Resident Evil 4 (2005)

steam://rungameid/2050650 - Resident Evil 4 (2023)

 

Would be nice to have the correct meta data though   

Edited 17 hours ago by 51mm5

[51mm5]

Did I say it was fixed 🤣.  I think I can see the problem.  For some reason, in the Windows.xml the database ID seems to go to the wrong Steam ID so:

steam://rungameid/254700 - Resident Evil 4 (2005) - <DatabaseID>261464</DatabaseID>

steam://rungameid/2050650 - Resident Evil 4 (2023) - <DatabaseID>7801</DatabaseID>

No matter how many times I change it and go through the update games with existing metadata and/or media its just changes back in the Windows.xml file. 

 

If someone has these two games on a machine you can probably replicate the issue by the way Im in the UK so not sure if that makes a difference in terms of the Steam ID being different

Edited 17 hours ago by 51mm5

[JoeViking245]

15 minutes ago, 51mm5 said:

Did I say it was fixed 🤣

Well, you said you were able to change it. So I assumed. 😊

What I did to test was:

• Pressed Ctrl+N (to add a new game)
• In the Launching section, put
  • steam://rungameid/2050650
• Back in the Metadata section, typed in
  • resident evil 4
• Pressed Enter (to have LB search for the game) and got
  • Resident Evil 4 (2005)
• Clicked OK to save and close
• Pressed Ctrl+N again
• ...put
  • steam://rungameid/254700  (using the other ID #)
• ...typed in
  • resident evil 4 (same as before)
• Pressed Enter...
  • Resident Evil 4 (Deluxe Edition)  (the 2023 version)
• OK

So it seems there may an issue with the Steam Auto-Import feature (to include when updating games) when 2 games have the same Title (minus datum inside of parenthesis).  It's possible that because the local database file only has the Steam ID for the one of the 2 games, it auto grabs the one (as the titles are "the same").  Or... it does it by title-match and grabs the 1st exact match.  However, adding them manually as I did, it works.  Dunno.

 

40 minutes ago, 51mm5 said:

No matter how many times I change it and go through the update games with existing metadata and/or media its just changes back

To clarify, when you buy new Steam games and LB does it's auto-import thing, it adds the new games and modifies your 2 RE4 games?  Or... when you start LB, it scans Steam for "new" games and regardless of a new game or not, it modifies the 2?  Essentially revering them both to the one game?

[51mm5]

Yes thats the problem, steam://rungameid/2050650 should be for the 2023 version and steam://rungameid/254700 should be the 2005 version. LB seems to import them the wrong way round

[JoeViking245]

49 minutes ago, 51mm5 said:

2050650 should be for the 2023 version [...] 254700 should be the 2005 version

Thanks!  And yes. That could be a problem.    (obviously I didn't even look close enough to notice)

I will pass this along to the proper authorities for resolution.