@screech said in Manual metadata disappears when games lists updated?:

Hi @Matt-Bauler

Can you tell me an exemple of mismatch and your configuration ?

I'll check what's going wrong

For info, Universal XML Scraper 2 is comming (Like winter )

Just started out in NES games as a test and about 80% were correct. Some examples:
Addams Family, The (USA) = Baseball Sumulator 1.000
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - DragonStrike (USA) = Karnov
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - Heroes of the Lance (USA) = Kid Kool
Adventures of Lolo 2 (USA) = The Krion Conquest
Adventures of Lolo 3 (USA) = Krusty's Fun House.

Checked the database:

Adventures of Lolo 2 (USA).nes
CRC: 862AB1E5

Checked the game it was scraping instead and the CRC didn't match or anything...no sign of that I can see of why it would pull Thr Krion Conquest instead...

exactly what it expected in the database but scraped a completely different game? I used the default settings and the roms are all verified against no-intro's dat files. I even tried different reorderings of how it scrapes in the advanced settings and that just made it worse.

Also, how do I get the new xmls to stick in the system exactly once they are scraped with the program? I know you need root access and to stop emulationstation or something but don't know the exact way...

@Nachtgarm said in Manual metadata disappears when games lists updated?:

I think he means "Game Settings -> "Refresh Game list" in ES.

I don't know how to avoid this problem but you should report i on GitHub and for the future I recommend using the Universal XML Scraper by Screech. It finds ALL games, is faster and the results are waaay better, than the TheGamesDB results

I took your suggestion to use Universal XML Scraper but I'm getting quite a few mismatches with images and games. I tried changing the api order but that only seems to make it worse. Any suggestions?

I'll add that the games are all verified against no-intro dat files. I am fine going through and manually fixing games, but I don't know how to get my own image to replace the incorrect one for the mixed artwork.

I decided to manually enter metadata for a few games that wouldn't scrape like Pac-Man, NBA Jam, F-Zero, etc...got it all good for one system with pics and info I manually entered from thegamedb and it stayed there until I did a games list update, then it disappeared, but it kept the custom names I entered (basically removing the region/revision), so I'm confused why it would keep that and discard everything else?

Anybody know why or how to avoid this?

Everything scrapes just fine and the same Neo Geo games will provide results under MAME and FBA, but when I try to scrape under Neo Geo, I get zero results for every game?

Well when the screen says press B to select and it's actually A on the controller, that's not very helpful. This system is meant to be user friendly to people other than me. I figured out that "On-screen Help" means these button labels and they can be turned off but it's not ideal. The image files aren't somewhere that I can just swap the file names or something?

I'm using a logitech controller where A is swapped with B and same with X and Y...so, backwards from the SNES style configuration ES uses. I can do it the other way around when customizing inputs but then the labels at the bottom don't match up correctly. I've also tried changing the inputs in Retroarch and haven't had much luck. Any help?