2013-05-29, 20:59
(2013-05-29, 20:37)Kagan Wrote: Thank you for pointing out the backup-solution, I had no idea it existed and it worked perfectlyI would prefer to do not have to add this option into the add-on.
(2013-05-29, 20:37)Kagan Wrote: Btw. I was wondering if you could tell me how Advanced Launcher recognises my games and renames them? Is this done according to an existing database or does it compare part of the name with the sites included as scrapers?Games recognition into Advanced Launcher use filenames, game platform information and website based scrapers.
(2013-05-29, 20:37)Kagan Wrote: The reason I ask it that I am quite amazed at some of the filenames it recognises, while it trips over what I would think would be more easily recognisable names other times.It could depend of a lot of thing, but mainly of the website scraper you are using. For example, if a website do not have the game into its database, the scraper could return a game with a close title or nothing. There is not perfect database... so no perfect scraper. That's why Advanced Launcher include several website based scrapers and allow to perform manual scanning and manual editing.
(2013-05-29, 20:37)Kagan Wrote: Also, since I am having Advanced Launcher pull everything from my NAS-server, I was wondering if there is any way to have it store the game-information downloaded through the scrapers, on the NAS-drive? Right now I have it set up so that thumbs/fanarts are stored on the NAS, but I haven’t found any option to have it also store the downloaded information externally.Basically Advanced Launcher save all the scraped information into the launchers.xml file. But Advanced Launcher also include an option to export the game information into NFO files. To export the information, select a launcher > Context Menu ("C" key) > Edit Launcher > Manage Items List > Export items data to NFO files. Then for each game a .NFO file will be created ans stored into the same folder as the roms. Then you could import this NFO file information when you want. Here are corresponding small tutorials : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg3FZQRH35w & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzhJvoEu2tA