Artwork Naming: Games with Special Characters

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james21b
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Artwork Naming: Games with Special Characters

Postby james21b » Mon Feb 27, 2023 6:21 pm

Hi All,

I've read through the available documentation and tried to troubleshoot this myself but am coming up blank.

With games that have a hyphen "-" in their name, RetroX sometimes displays these with a colon ":".
These games aren't properly finding the artwork I've placed in folders using the standalone method.

Example:

Choplifter III - Rescue-Survive.sfc is displayed as Choplifter III: Rescue-Survive

I can't figure out what to name:
Choplifter III - Rescue-Survive.mp4

Video file is located in this path:
retrox/artwork/videos/snes/Choplifter III - Rescue-Survive.mp4

I've tried about a dozen variations to see what may work, any ideas?

I seem to have the same issue on all games that add ":" into the display name.

Thanks,
Jimi
james21b
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Re: Artwork Naming: Games with Special Characters

Postby james21b » Tue Feb 28, 2023 7:02 pm

If anyone ever comes across this, I've found a solution.

For games that have a hyphen replaced with a colon, the artwork will need to be adjusted with an underscore where the colon is.

Example:

Pitfall - The Mayan Adventure.32x

Displayed as: Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

Artwork naming should be adjusted to: Pitfall_ The Mayan Adventure.png

This is what worked for me.
Discovered by testing out Launch box for Android and looking at the naming used in the downloaded artwork.

Thanks,
Jimi

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