Suggestion: Create a section where players can submit misidentified Mame roms that could be corrected by a future release or plugin.

Issue #6748 new
Fugus created an issue

While I firmly believe that games should be matched to the database by hash instead of file name, that isn’t what we have and when it comes to roms, some will inevitably be misidentified due to how they can be named any number of things and variations.

But that isn’t the case when it comes to mame, the names have to be exact as well otherwise they won’t run. So with them being pretty concrete in what they are, you can have a plugin or even launchbox itself have a database that matches the troubled roms to the proper game in the database.

But given the number of games, wouldn’t ask for your staff to try and search for them yourselves, you have enough on your plate. But create a section on the site where users can submit mame roms by name that get misidentified by the automatic importer so it can be corrected automatically in future updates.

Also, noticed some games (Breath of the Wild for Wii U for example) have multiple entries for the single game in the database.

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