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    Skyscraper: display actual name of game - not filename?

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      silver
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      After I've finished scraping with Skyscraper, EmulationStation lists my games by filename rather than the actual name.

      Is there any way I can change the Skyscraper configuration so that EmulationStation shows the actual name instead?


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      The problem appears to be the fact that the name tags within gamelist.xml show the filename rather than the name of the game. For example:

      <gameList>
        <game>
          <path>C:/roms/snes/Blah (1990) (U) [!].smc</path>
          <name>Blah (1990) (U) [!]</name>
      

      As a result, the game is displayed as Blah (1990) (U) [!] within EmulationStation, when I'd rather it just say Blah.

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator @silver
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        @silver You've probably used the --forcefilename option when generating the gamelists, otherwise the scraped game title would have been used.

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          silver @mitu
          last edited by

          @mitu That's what I thought at first, but I don't have a config.ini and I'm not including that in the command line!

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator
            last edited by

            Hm, there's always a config.ini when you install Skyscraper. What version are you running ?

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              silver @mitu
              last edited by

              @mitu 3.1.5, the Windows version.

              The GitHub page said I should go here for support but, since I'm running an old version on an unsupported platform, I've a feeling I'm going to be a little out of luck :(

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                mitu Global Moderator
                last edited by

                Try adding a config.ini and set it to false - see here.
                But it's strange that the title is not considered as the name in the gamelist, since forceFilename is disabled by default.

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                  silver
                  last edited by silver

                  I raised the issue with Lars and he came back with this extremely helpful solution:

                  The bracket notes from the filename is by default re-added to the title, as they often contain useful information. You can disable them with --nobrackets.

                  Works like a charm!

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                    Clyde @silver
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                    @silver Thanks for sharing the solution.

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