Posted: 6/10/2022 5:30 PM
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TheBenJamminTTV
Joined: 6/10/2022
Posts: 1
Hey all, I'm using the Bizhawk Shuffler program and it includes a text file that fills in the name of the current game you're playing for OBS. I try to change the name of some games and it doesn't reflect in Bizhawk (at the top of the emulator), and thus in the text source for OBS. The weird thing is changing the name of most titles works (as in it updates in Bizhawk), but a decent number of game don't update from file name changes. Two examples are Tetris Attack and Super Metroid: both games won't reflect in Bizhawk any name changes to their files, whereas most games do. I don't even know where they are pulling the original names from once their name is changed.--I click on properties on the game and it doesn't show the original name anywhere. I haven't been able to discern any pattern among the games that won't update their titles in Bizhawk. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
Posted: 6/10/2022 10:12 PM
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YoshiRulz
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The titles will be coming from the gamedb, or in rare cases from the contents of the rom itself.
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Posted: 6/10/2022 10:23 PM
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CasualPokePlayer
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Joined: 2/26/2020
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If the game's hash matches one in the gamedb it will use the gamedb's name. If the game's hash does not match anything in the gamedb (romhacks, homebrew, or maybe system has no gamedb), it will usually use the file name (maybe in some case it might go use some name from another source e.g. in the ROM, but it's usually the file name in this case).
Posted: 6/11/2022 12:37 PM
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Joined: 7/13/2017
Posts: 57
Cant he just edit the GameDB Textfiles then? Edit : Yeah, that works