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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: Nick on February 11, 2017, 04:18:17 PM

Title: Using related snap from another region?
Post by: Nick on February 11, 2017, 04:18:17 PM

Hello,

I have roms in No-Intro naming convention and I have a bunch of snap in either png and mp4 which show fine usually when it's the (USA) version because the rom and snap name are a perfect match, but the (Europe) or anything else version for that matter isn't found and I get a black screen.
Is there anyway to make AM use snap from another region if a matching one isn't found?
I've been thinking about using symbolic links some my cabinet is running Linux, but if there's a more elegant solution I'd be all for that.
Thanks.

Title: Re: Using related snap from another region?
Post by: apzonerunner on February 11, 2017, 05:01:59 PM

So long as the filenames match, it'll work. So just rename "(USA)" in a filename to "(JP)" or whatever else you need. Same goes for wheel images, flyers, marquees etc - just make the snap name match the ROM name.

Title: Re: Using related snap from another region?
Post by: Nick on February 12, 2017, 06:58:27 AM

Thanks, I understand that if I duplicate the files it'll find them properly.
I was hoping for a solution which doesn't involve duplicating all those files however.
More of a feature request I suppose.

Title: Re: Using related snap from another region?
Post by: verion on February 12, 2017, 07:37:27 AM

Your symlinks will work just fine - the only downside is that you have to make all symlinks manually one-by-one.
Other than that - you are golden if the symlink "name" will match rom name.

Title: Re: Using related snap from another region?
Post by: akafox on February 12, 2017, 11:01:06 AM

Ok so your artwork is names (Japan) (Euroupe) (USA) or

(J) (U) (E)

you said no-intro so I am guessing it is the first if I am not mistaken...

So your artwork won't show why exactly?

Mine were good tools format but my artwork was no-intro format. I ran all mine through crlmame pro and renamed my roms to match my  snaps. If your artwork is from emumovies \ hyper-spin it should be no-intro format. What format are your roms in?

Title: Re: Using related snap from another region?
Post by: Nick on February 12, 2017, 12:50:40 PM

Here's an example:

in roms:

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Dragon Ball Z - The Legacy of Goku (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It).zip
Dragon Ball Z - The Legacy of Goku (USA).zip

in snaps:

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Dragon Ball Z - The Legacy of Goku (USA).mp4

I can copy or symlink the mp4 to also have a

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Dragon Ball Z - The Legacy of Goku (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It).mp4

But if I do that the scraper won't download any future updates unless I remove all the symlinks first.

Wouldn't it be great if AM would be able to best match snaps like these automagically?

Title: Re: Using related snap from another region?
Post by: akafox on February 12, 2017, 08:44:15 PM

Well as far as I can tell the scraper will. But I see your point.

It is:

Dragon Ball Z - The Legacy of Goku (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It).zip

Not:

Dragon Ball Z - The Legacy of Goku (Europe).zip

All I can say is rename the snap that way it works. Besides you really want two copies of the same game? Just my two cents.