[Feature Request] Initial heuristic search for no-intro naming convention

Issue #2771 new
Michael Mullins created an issue

Given that the no-intro sets are considered the gold standard of sourcing, multiple front-end tools and databases use No-intro as a common convention. It would be helpful if LaunchBox's scraper were aware of the convention and performed appropriate coupled searches when encountering one of these Roms.

Brad had rejected the idea in the forums as not feasible for now, but I'd like to put the issue into the hopper.

Points in favor: - Wide usage of naming convention - Convenience for users setting up front end - Reduces number of mis-names and errors - Reduces new user confusion seeing clearly that <game name> (USA).<suffix> is the same as <game name> - Depending on scraper design, could possible be implemented as conditional regular expression (though I don't envy coming up with one that reliably prevents false positives... Regex makes my eyes bleed)

Points against: - If the scraper function does not use confidence levels in word or phrase searching, this may be more difficult. - Scraper currently works well enough in most cases. - Structure of search functions will cause a no-intro first pass to significantly slow down search correlation.

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