Use metadata changes when scraping

8BitKid

Currently, if you change the metadata for a game and then do a scrape, the scraping still uses the filename to determine the results. For example, if I have Game (EN,JP).zip it may scrape the Japanese release. I can go into the metadata editor for the game and change it to EN, but if I trigger a new scrape, the scraping process still prefers the structure of the filename over the information provided in the metadata.

Ideally, if the metadata is changed for a specific game, scraping would prefer using that information over any information present in the filename itself. Otherwise, I have to manually change the filename in order to get it to scrape the right file.

If there is an existing workaround for this use case, I’ll happily give it a go.

Atari

Workaround: manually search for game title when scraping. You have the option at the bottom of the screen I believe, and then you can type whatever you want.

This is not a big deal though because by default the scraper will skip over any games that already have metadata. So it’s not like if you customised it, that it would be lost on your next scrape.

8BitKid

Atari I have tried that, but am not sure how to structure the search query to include the country/region code.

Atari

The good romset have a naming convention you can follow. Usually, it is just “Name of Game (US)”, where (US) would be the region code for your intended region instead.

8BitKid

Atari I’ll give that a go again. I use a ScreenScraper.fr membership, so the inability to match based on that naming convention could be something on their end. I do have my ROMs titled according to the “No-Intro” sets.