Not displaying some long titles in MAME

g12345567

I have chosen to display the file name instead of the scraped file name in Batocera user interface.

Problem is in MAME I have installed some games along with the associated artwork files. The games themself work fine but then I update the games, the gameslist most of the games will display a proper title. EG Game & Watch: Snoopy Tennis. Yet there are still some games are only displaying the short file name EG gnw_manholeg, gnw_mariocmt, gnw_dkong3 etc.

I’m using the MAME standalone version in Batocera. Was wondering where exactly is Batocera finding the game titles for some of the game and for others it only displays the ROM file name? Why is this happening and any way to fix?

mikakunin

I think you are referring to mamenames.xml in the /usr/share/emulationstation/resources folder.
Wait for file update or manually edit game list

g12345567

Thanks. I’ll try editing that file and see how I go. Just can’t at the moment as when I update the gameslist. Batocera is no longer creating a gameslist.xml for the MAME titles in my roms/MAME folder. Not sure what’s happened to cause this to happen just on this MAME titles.

I also noticed that after scraping MAME games the game descriptions weren’t being saved. Now it’s also stopped creating the MAME titles gamelist.xml file.

Atari

“I have chosen to display the file name instead of the scraped file name in Batocera user interface.” <- isn’t that… exactly what it’s doing then?

If you want the scraped metadata name instead, you would turn this option off.

g12345567

Atari

40988 If you want the scraped metadata name instead, you would turn this option off.

Yes but with MAME it uses short filenames up to 16 characters long. As mikakunin mentioned above it uses a prebuilt database containing the short and long file names for each title. Batocera uses this database file to display the long gamelist title name. Its only uses the short file name if the game isn’t present in that data file.