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[Feature] Manual Match both IGDB and MobyGames together #1160

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Nomelas opened this issue Sep 2, 2024 · 2 comments
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[Feature] Manual Match both IGDB and MobyGames together #1160

Nomelas opened this issue Sep 2, 2024 · 2 comments
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Nomelas commented Sep 2, 2024

It doesn't seem like I can match both IGDB and MobyGames IDs together for a single game unless Romm decides they are the same game somehow (exact title match?).

However, some titles may be slightly different between the 2 sites.

For example is Harvest Moon GB(C).

The game is similar to Link's Awakening (DX) where there was an enahanced version remake for the GBC but its basically the same game. The difference is the Harvest Moon GBC game is also backwards compatible with the original GB, so i suspect because of this, on MobyGames, its labelled as a single entry for Harvest Moon GB with GBC as an alternative name. IGDB properly splits them as 2 distinct games with unique entries.

I want to be able to link the GBC version of the game to the GBC version on igdb AND the GB+C version on MobyGames.

Here are the entries:
https://www.igdb.com/games/harvest-moon-gb & https://www.igdb.com/games/harvest-moon-gbc
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https://www.mobygames.com/game/6493/harvest-moon-gb/

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Nomelas commented Sep 2, 2024

Another Example is "Quackshot Starring Donald Duck"
https://www.igdb.com/games/quackshot-starring-donald-duck
https://www.mobygames.com/game/7960/quackshot-starring-donald-duck/

I suspect because "starring" is capitalized on IGDB and not on mobygames, they aren't being combined together on romm.

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+1 on this request, an option to make the matching criteria fuzzier. Games that have questionable camel case, dashes or colons in their names sometimes don't get matched properly. This is a huge issue (but out of scope for this kind of project) with Japanese games and their romanisation, which often has "ou" and "o" used for the same glyph and doesn't match with the Moby or IGDB entries, but fuzzier matching for western games that just differ between how many ":", "-" or "/" the name has in the IGDB/Moby name as compared to the ROM name should be attainable.

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