Game name not rom name

trekdrop

So I have been messing around with the rom names. I mange to get rid off the stuff between the () with console roms. Only I can't get the game names to show up properly with fba, arcade and neo geo.

herb_fargus

@trekdrop https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/scraper

trekdrop

@herb_fargus

Yeah thanks, I did everything on that page. Still my game names are like ssfiii instead off super street fighter.

trekdrop

So there is no one that can help me? Am I the only one that irritates that the rom names are weird.

obsidianspider

If scraping isn't working you could always go in and manually edit the gamelist.xml file for each system. I've had to do that for a few games that weren't detected.

trekdrop

@obsidianspider

Can you please tell me the settings for your mame collection? Or are your rom names not like mine?

obsidianspider

@trekdrop

As an example, here's the entry for Metal Slug 6 that I didn't bother to find art for yet. Other games are similar but I didn't want to paste a wall of text with the descriptions, etc.

<game>
	<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/neogeo/mslug6.zip</path>
	<name>Metal Slug 6</name>
	<playcount>17</playcount>
	<lastplayed>20160524T172743</lastplayed>
</game>

trekdrop

Yeah nice! I really looking for that, do you know how you mange to get that? Because my rom names wil not change.

Oh and if you need better nicer images I run my roms trough emumovies art finder app en change the png to JPEG. Really better quality.

obsidianspider

@trekdrop

The path for that particular file on my Pi is

/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/neogeo/gamelist.xml

trekdrop

Sorry I thing I was not clear. Do you know the settings of the scraper? Because if try it never change to the game name only removes stuff between the ()

obsidianspider

@trekdrop

I just use the one built into EmulationStation and usually get the best results with TheGamesDB.

trekdrop

@obsidianspider said in Game name not rom name:

@trekdrop

I just use the one built into EmulationStation and usually get the best results with TheGamesDB.

Did all that and this is what my gamelist looks like:

<path>./mslug.zip</path>
<name>mslug</name>
<image>./downloaded_images/mslug-image.jpg</image>
<rating>0.9560000000000001</rating>
<releasedate>1996</releasedate>
<developer>Nazca</developer>
<publisher />
<genre>Platform / Shooter Scrolling</genre>
<players>2</players>
</game>

Whats wrong... it only removes the .zip and still has the romname..
Is it possible that jou can upload your gameslist?

obsidianspider

@trekdrop

Exit EmulationStation and then try changing the line <name>mslug</name> to <name>Metal Slug</name> then save and restart EmulationStation. The <name> is where it's reading the game name. Since yours just has mslug in there, that's why it's being shown in your menu.

trekdrop

@obsidianspider

Yeah i know, only i really dont want to change that for like 145 games :0

So i though it easier if i can copy yours.

trekdrop

@obsidianspider

I put a bunch of games inside the Arcade folder and now the scraper is changing the names...
Wierd, so my Neo Geo games inside the NeoGeo folder wil not change and if i put them all inside the Arcade folder the scraper will find them all..

obsidianspider

@trekdrop

It sounds like it's an issue with the scraper not recognizing the system. Glad you figured it out.

trekdrop

@obsidianspider

Now i need to make gamelist in arcade folder and copy it to the neogeo folder i really hope this will work, it would be realy nice if you can upload your gamelist.

finaluser

@obsidianspider said in Game name not rom name:

@trekdrop

Exit EmulationStation and then try changing the line <name>mslug</name> to <name>Metal Slug</name> then save and restart EmulationStation. The <name> is where it's reading the game name. Since yours just has mslug in there, that's why it's being shown in your menu.

I just removed the <name> tag from file

$mv gamelist.xml gamelist.xml2
$grep -v <name> gamelist.xml2 > gamelist.xml
$rm gamelist.xml2

thelostsoul

The scraper should work. You must Exit EmulationStation and then start the scraper. Because while EmulationStation is active, all changes to scrape Data will be lost.

After Exiting EmulationStation, you should start the RetroPie-Setup script, where you can find the sselph scraper. I do this always and it works great.

Clyde

@thelostsoul said in Game name not rom name:

The scraper should work. You must Exit EmulationStation and then start the scraper.

The scraper menu even says that prominently.