screenshot scraping issue possibly caused by game title

[Michael Mullins]

• LaunchBox 5.5
• Windows 10
• Once when importing game
• Import translated game but make sure to use Hyperspin/RocketLauncher naming conventions for file.

Dragon Quest III (SNES translated) doesn't pick up screenshots properly. The Screenshots are using the standard Hyperspin/EmuMovies naming conventions. There might be a name block of some kind given that the media use a Japanese transliteration in the title of the screenshot: "Dragon Quest III - Soshite Densetsu (Japan) (Translated En)".

[Jason Carr]

Thank you Michael, can you tell me both the title of the game and the screenshot file name? That way I can do a comparison and see what's actually not matching up.

[Michael Mullins]

Ok, there may be some database conflicts due to custom title names. Hopefully this will help though.

Hyperspin database name and screenshot: Dragon Quest III - Soshite Densetsu (Japan) (Translated En)

Rom filename: Dragon Quest III (Japan)

GamesDB ID: 14776 (http://thegamesdb.net/game/14776/)

I photoshopped some custom box art for this (Super Nintendo style rather than the Super Famicom vertical box). I don't think that would have an effect since the box cover got picked up just fine after I copied the entire SNES box covers library over.

If you need to I can look up the RocketLauncher/Hyperspin XML entry for the game. I may have edited that for my own convenience.

[Jason Carr]

I see, sure. Yeah, the title matching unfortunately isn't that smart. It will pick up common differences with formatting, but it won't work for complete missing or added words like that. Unfortunately at that point we'd have too many false positives, which are really not good. Also, I have to be careful with the processing time required to parse the images out, so I can't make that logic too overly complicated.

Unfortunately I think we'll have to just stick with what we've got for now.