Gameboy & Gameboy Colour seperation gamelist.xml issue

[dsuri2]

I found that when generating a gamelist.xml using skraper I can only select either the gb or gbc to get images. I can create a gamelist file containing both consoles (add the .gbc into file types) but it still only works with the gameboy folder in the UI leaving the colour folder with no images.

I apologise if this is a known issue, I have tried multiple things but cannot seem to make it work.
Any help is appreciated.

Edit (Thought of a better way to word this):
The issue from my understanding is that the launcher divides the games based on filetype while the gamelist.xml file treats each folder as one console, causing them not to line up for whatever reason.

[dsuri2]

Since I originally posted this issue, I did some more testing using the Mister Companion scraper and frontend 1.0.3, I tried using a seperate folder labelled "GBC" thus it used a different gamelist.xml file. For whatever reason this still didn't work for me.

I did find that just putting images (with the same name as the rom) in the folder worked for gameboy not gbc (not sure if this is a feature or a bug though).

[BossRighteous]

Zaparoo's MiSTer build flags GAMEBOY as a Folder for Gameboy, and GAMEBOY and GBC as folders for GameboyColor (launchers.go)

I think this is leading to a weird state where the gamelist if flagging a game found for the wrong system.

I was able to confirm clean gamelist.xml reads on windows with custom launchers using the same path config. I can see the 'scraper' run from front-end does load any and all gamelist.xml files sequentially if there are multiple folders.

I'll need to investigate more on the MiSTer to be sure, but did you initally scan from an intermingled GAMEBOY folder with .gb and .gbc ROMS? Also did you scan with the first release? I wonder if your meta data got polluted. there is a force flag but I don't think the Front-end covers it.

I'm not quick to ask you to delete your media.db but I would be curious to confirm

• clean DB
• .gb files and gamelist.xml in GAMEBOY
• .gbc files and gamelist.xml in GBC

The companion scanner rules are new and a bit more general, which is cool if there is a clean system separation, but it is a greedy 'claim' process to speed up xml read reruns on by skipping previously scanned records

[BossRighteous]

Oh, and to answer the question about images

I noticed using skraper some configurations don't actually include the image paths, they are just assumed. As such the filename will get searched in /media/type/filename.png

[dsuri2]

From what I can tell, a clean db does help but I found images only load when using the recalbox setting on Companion's ZapScraper, my guess is the image tag in the xml file works but the box2d tag does not.

Oddly though only some games images actually show up, not all of them. I'm going to try changing the games name tag to match the rom file to see if that makes a difference.

[dsuri2]

Ok yes for whatever reason making sure the name tag and the roms name are the same does make a difference.

I'm assuming I just had a scuffed media.db file originally.

[dsuri2]

I'm also noticing that renaming files seems to mess with the database even after re updating the database, this may be a different issue at this point though.

[BossRighteous]

Thank you for the really detailed followups!

Instead of having you chase down my assumptions let me take a moment to work out a proper debugger for this. I have a little throwaway html file I used during dev but it assumes you'd know either the exact path/system or the internal mediadb IDs. It could be an issue of mapping, not forcing on re-scan, order of requested image fallbacks, etc so making a tool to give us a more complete picture is only fair

Sorry it's been a headache but you're really helping out others too so I appreciate it!