carabalb Wrote:Another idea to handle alternate titles might be to do a reverse lookup. In my case some of my games have alternate names but are not sequels (example: When scraping the rom name: "Zool - Ninja of the 'Nth' Dimension" the only match was "Zool" which had ~ .2 ratio)

For games with no matches greater or equal to the fuzzy ratio (.7 by default), if we could do a reverse look-up where we find "Zool" within "Zool - Ninja of 'Nth' Dimension" that could tell us whether its an alternative title.

Ofcourse this could bring other problems especially with sequels, but I'd thought I'd throw it out there as a possible idea . And I completely agree w/ Tomkun, this is definitely my favorite script for XBMC.

HollywoodZero Wrote:I've used the synopsis.txt file for SNES that you gave to us and I wonder why you refer to roms with their crc ? Why don't you just use the clean names provided by the goodsnes tool ? It would make more sens to let GoodTools do the rename/check/crc validation job and to let RCB just use those "standard" game names. This would be easier to know which file the synopsis.txt links to and would be easier if we were all using same rom names. This would avoid you to do an algorithm to detect the difference between Mortal Kombat II and Mortal Kombat 2. Just show all found Goodxxx games name in the RCB list and that's all.

Quote:Then in the config.xml it could be nice to specify the type of rom we prefer when there are multiple available for a game : 1: (E) 2: (U) 3: [!] 4: (J) so when the game is launched, RCB try to launch the european version (E) but if not available the US version (U) if not available the [!], then the Japanese (J) etc.

Quote:It would be nice also to have the artworks files using the Goodxxx names so it would be easier to update the sets and find what is missing.

mcborzu Wrote:Alrighty got "The Carmichael" support done:

ghostelement Wrote:Hey, first of all, thanks for all the hard work you've done with your site!
I totally agree with you about there being only one site instead of multiple ones with the same info. I've reached out to the creator of thevideogamedb a couple times, but he's never responded to me. What info is currently capable of being scraped off of your site right now? Would you be able to do any kind of db dump that I could just import? Thanks again for all the help.

• scraping improvements: changes to sequel handling and support for alternate titles
  
• some more encoding fixes (thanks to jimyx17)
  
• bugfix: removing (...) and [...] from game name before game search did not work (thanks again to carabalb)
  
• bugfix: handling of rom names with trailing ", The" did not work in previous version (same bug as with removing [...])
  
• bugfix: import images that contain [...] in the filename (thanks to HollywoodZero for reporting this one)
  

luke255 Wrote:Well firstly great job with this. I've been on a Googling marathon for the past few hours learning about RomCollectionBrowser, resurrectionxtras, thegamedb etc.

My ideal situation, and what I believe is the ultimate goal for most (correct me if I'm wrong), is to have a way to import ROMs into XBMC and have all that lovely meta data fetched automatically. Maybe even a system to "link" emulators to XBMC with RCB having all the command line variables etc needed for the most popular ones.

After some research I find resurrectionxtras which sounds awesome except that the target machine is the XBOX. I get it, use that and everybody has the same hardware. I figure I can just download the ROMs I want from resurrectionxtras and configure RCB to get all the data from there. I'm not sure if this is doable plus I don't have a demonoid account!

So I'm left really impressed with all the work that has gone into these projects but disappointed that a more friendly system is so close but not there yet.

Am I missing something? Are there plans for scraper integration in RCB? Would the resurrectionxtras torrents be compatible with RCB (after creating a suitable config.xml)? Are there any other options?

Thanks for any help I get and sorry for the noob-like post, we've all been noobs at some point remember!

Quote:Am I missing something?

Quote:Are there plans for scraper integration in RCB?

Quote:Would the resurrectionxtras torrents be compatible with RCB (after creating a suitable config.xml)?

Quote:Are there any other options?

luke255 Wrote:After some research I find resurrectionxtras which sounds awesome except that the target machine is the XBOX. I get it, use that and everybody has the same hardware. I figure I can just download the ROMs I want from resurrectionxtras and configure RCB to get all the data from there. I'm not sure if this is doable plus I don't have a demonoid account!

luke255 Wrote:Thanks for the great reply :-) I'll be looking into getting the latest version paired with resx archives. Emulator Nirvana just got a little closer!

wimpy Wrote:Nice to see more people join in and expressing the wish for a "emu nirvana"