Have the database also store a search term for a title in it to get the video snaps from EmuMovies so less titles you have to fiddle with to find the video snaps.

[Fugus]

Noticed that games do have alternative titles to it but many games will only come up with the media for it from EmuMovies under specific names.

Could start including the title that retrieves that media from EmuMovies in the database.

[Retro808]

Can you provide an example of some games (Game Name, Rom File Name, and Platform Name) you have had issues getting videos from EmuMovies? If you are having a lot of video issues there could be naming concerns with your specific files.

Also having this option in the Games Database would not facilitate any cleaner searches from EmuMovies as LB does not use what is in the Games DB to search EmuMovies. It uses the medata from a users specific LB game entry.

[Fugus]

It’s all over the place. But a good example would be like the games that start with “Disney” or “Pixar”.

The metadata on Launchbox will go through just fine no matter which name it defaults to, but when it comes to getting the video snaps, some will require that it has the “Disney” in the name and won’t find the video otherwise while others will not find the video unless you remove that part.

Was thinking about having a entry in the database so that whatever name you decide to use of the game itself, when it came to looking through EmuMovies, it would search using the entry defined by the database unless you specified it be ignored.

Edit: Good examples would be Cars, Up, and Finding Nemo on multiple systems, or the Tinkerbell games.

Almost every game found the video names under at least one of the alternative names though, just had to go through and figure out which name it was under in the search when I did.

[Fugus]

Good example just now. “Disney-Pixar Wall-E” on PS2 doesn’t find the video snap while just “WALL-E” finds it without issue.

Another, “Flushed Away” gives the video snaps but “Dreamworks and Aardman’s Flushed Away” does not. Both options under Alternate Names.

And the “Bee Movie” game on PS2. And so on.

Dreamworks games are also bad for it.

[tastyratz]

Alternative search titles and matching titles at other services seem like the kind of thing to include in the Launchbox Games DB entries for individual games vs the local database. Especially if the LBGD is considered master for imported titles.

At least for games that exist in both databases.

I’ve definitely had to curate titles manually before that didn’t match based on name headers (such as the examples mentioned, something that might start with Disney, or another company with a copyright symbol, etc).