Game history and .bat files

[pantrax]

Recently I've been adding some of my psone and ps2 titles to my GameEx setup, mostly through batch files as it allows me to use different configurations - as these emulators/games frequently require. What I miss though is the gamehistory info shown on the game page. Now this may be because of my poorly choosen game title. I don't know what attributes need to match in order to get the game history already available in the database, and if this is possible through batch files. Also, to the best of my knowledge there is no game history DB for ps2 - atleast released with recent versions of GameEx. What I'm asking then; what is needed to take use of the psone database and how can i add custom information to ps2 (and psone for that matter).

[bkenobi]

First, make sure you have the database selected for the emulator. Second, it's best if the games in the database match exactly with the title of the game in your map file (if you use one) or the file name. I think it will work if you have the same title with bracketed text in your file name, but it's best to have it match exactly. So, either rename your batch files to match what's in the database or create a map file that converts the name for you.

Btw, map files are becoming less needed now with the database support that's been added (the new databases have multiple game name columns, so they should match your files). I'm not sure if Tom is planning on eliminating map files altogether or not. My recommendation is to rename the files.

[pantrax]

Yea, found out it was because of the .mdb didn't have any additions to the naming conventions. Good thing my psx list isn't the biggest one cause that could easly be a daunting task. I'm not to happy with how multiple disks are handled, but it works. Atleast now I know the reason for future reference.

[bkenobi]

Yeah, multiple discs has been discussed in the past. HK was working on a universal wrapper that would help with these types of situations, but I don't know the status on it. He's got so many other projects going that it might be further back on his list right now...