Satellaview DAT bug: Not needed here

[TheShadowRunner]

Hi,

The latest Nintendo - Satellaview (20201226-093906).dat is used.

All my roms are uncompressed.

RC says “Not needed here” for a couple of roms and I can’t find a way to fix it..

If I zip those yellow roms, RC sees them as green / ok, but I don’t want them compressed and the other roms are ok uncompressed so it doesn’t make sense to me.

Attached is a pic showing the issue, and one of those yellow “not needed here” rom.

Thanks for your support.

[TheShadowRunner]

Bug is still there with latest Satellaview DAT and RC 4.1.1.

Again for certain roms, RC wants them either zipped or in their own folder otherwise it always displays yellow /  “not needed here”.

For 90% of the other roms that does NOT happen.

HOW TO REPRODUCE:

• load latest Satellaview DAT.
• download romstest.zip
• extract romtest.zip and add the extracted folder to RC.

As you can see:

Dr. Mario BS (Japan) (3-3) is green.

Jewel of Live II (Japan) (Memory Pack) is yellow.

→ they should both be green

The only way to fix Jewel rom to green is either to zip it or to place it alone in a folder of its own name, such as:

Jewel of Live II (Japan)\Jewel of Live II (Japan) (Memory Pack).bs

Please fix so that the rom gets green in RC, like the others, without needing to be zipped or in a specific subfolder.

In the DAT file itself, there is no difference whatsoever between entries that are problematic in RC and those that are not, it’s a mystery.

<game name="Dr. Mario BS (Japan) (3-3)">
<description>Dr. Mario BS (Japan) (3-3)</description>
<rom name="Dr. Mario BS (Japan) (3-3).bs" size="1048576" crc="B5E1F82E" md5="8D2020463CA6AE2A2E2F8F632E996BCD" sha1="E02B1B50D0928AF8E0688392F7424B4C5EFA7471"/>
</game>

<game name="Jewel of Live II (Japan)">
<description>Jewel of Live II (Japan)</description>
<rom name="Jewel of Live II (Japan) (Memory Pack).bs" size="1048576" crc="B2550AFB" md5="D3CFE6545F8C27E293BA42BBE2217EB5" sha1="A134FFD765DB8F357BD48DE871ADF0C579730B83"/>
</game>

Thank you for your support.

[TheShadowRunner]

  <div class="preview-container wiki-content"><!-- loaded via ajax --></div>
  <div class="mask"></div>
</div>

</div> </form>

[Eric Bole-Feysot]

I will try…

[Eric Bole-Feysot]

Very strange. I’m looking for the bug...

[TheShadowRunner]

Thank you! very mysterious indeed.

[Eric Bole-Feysot]

Template v4.0434

[Eric Bole-Feysot]

I posted a fixed db template. Can you give it a try ?

[TheShadowRunner]

Yep, that fixed the bug.

And it fixed this one as well !

https://bitbucket.org/ebolefeysot/romcenter/issues/217/rc-410-very-long-filenames-bug

Thank you very much !

[Eric Bole-Feysot]

wow, thanks for the info.

[Eric Bole-Feysot]

Issue #217 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.

[Eric Bole-Feysot]

Fyi, the problem comes from the fact that this rom has a different name than the game name.
game: Jewel of Live II (Japan)
rom: Jewel of Live II (Japan) (Memory Pack)
That’s why rc want to store the rom in a zip.
I have disabled this behaviour for console dat.

[Eric Bole-Feysot]

Fix issue #223 Console rom reported as not needed and moved to a zip

→ <<cset f42cc9f74a91>>

[TheShadowRunner]

I was really wondering the source of the issue, thanks for this precision

[Eric Bole-Feysot]

Issue #215 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.