Sega Genesis box arts

[sergiobenrocha2]

thegamesdb has some wrong box arts in its set. Here what I found, in the case we move to 512:

    modified:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Advanced Busterhawk Gleylancer (Japan).png
    modified:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Alisia Dragoon (Europe).png
    modified:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Alisia Dragoon (Japan).png
    modified:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Alisia Dragoon (USA).png
    modified:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Beyond Oasis (USA).png
    modified:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Story of Thor, The - Hikari o Tsugumono (Japan).png
    modified:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (USA).png
    modified:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Hellfire (Europe).png
    new file:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Pulseman (Japan).png
    modified:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Ranger X (Europe).png
    modified:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Sonic Spinball (Japan).png
    modified:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Sonic The Hedgehog (Japan, Korea).png
    modified:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Europe).png
    modified:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Japan, Korea).png
    modified:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Sonic The Hedgehog Spinball (Europe).png
    modified:   Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis/Named_Boxarts/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - The Hyperstone Heist (Europe).png

[sergiobenrocha2]

Basically all the Europe & Japan files mirror the USA files.

[sergiobenrocha2]

It seems thegamesdb uses "custom/fan art/mockup" covers for some games, like this: http://thegamesdb.net/banners/boxart/original/front/2611-1.jpg

This game released only on Japan as far as I know.

The Cover Project has more accurate covers for each region (but some covers seems to be more 'flat', probably filters used?). Moby Games has some too.

[inactive123]

Yeah we definitely need to check for accuracy manually, I think a lot of these existing databases that have scrapable covers just pick whatever boxart they can find, whether or not it is real or not.

[RobLoach]

we definitely need to check for accuracy manually

Put together libretro-thumbnails-check to help with checking. Still could use some tweaks, but the result is pretty neat: Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis.txt

[lasers]

The world be changin'. What do we do with the boxarts for digital games?

I'm assuming all this versions were emulated on GameGube.

./Lunch Time (USA) (GameCube)
./Pokemon Party Mini - Baseline Judge (Europe) (GameCube)
./Pokemon Party Mini - Baseline Judge (Japan) (GameCube)
./Pokemon Party Mini - Baseline Judge (USA) (GameCube)
./Pokemon Party Mini - Chansey's Dribble (Europe) (GameCube)
./Pokemon Party Mini - Pikachu's Rocket Start (Europe) (GameCube)
./Pokemon Party Mini - Ricochet Dribble (Japan) (GameCube)
./Pokemon Party Mini - Ricochet Dribble (USA) (GameCube)
./Pokemon Party Mini - Rocket Start (USA) (GameCube)
./Pokemon Party Mini - Slowking's Judge (Europe) (GameCube)
./Pokemon Pinball Mini (USA) (GameCube Preview)
./Pokemon Puzzle Collection (France) (GameCube Preview)
./Pokemon Puzzle Collection (Germany) (GameCube Preview)
./Pokemon Puzzle Collection (Japan) (GameCube)
./Pokemon Puzzle Collection (USA) (GameCube Preview)
./Snorlax's Lunch Time (Europe) (GameCube)
./Snorlax's Lunch Time (Japan) (GameCube)

Should I remove those and keep the boxarts for official versions only?

./Pichu Bros. Mini (Japan)
./Pichu Bros. Mini - Hoppip's Jump Match (Japan) (Preview)
./Pichu Bros. Mini - Netsukikyuu (Japan) (Preview)
./Pichu Bros. Mini - Skateboard (Japan) (Preview)
./Pokemon Anime Card Daisakusen (Japan)
./Pokemon Party Mini (Europe)
./Pokemon Party Mini (Japan)
./Pokemon Party Mini (USA)
./Pokemon Pinball Mini (Japan)
./Pokemon Pinball Mini (Japan) (Preview)
./Pokemon Pinball Mini (USA, Europe)
./Pokemon Puzzle Collection (France)
./Pokemon Puzzle Collection (Germany)
./Pokemon Puzzle Collection (Japan)
./Pokemon Puzzle Collection (USA, Europe)
./Pokemon Puzzle Collection Vol. 2 (Japan)
./Pokemon Race Mini (Japan)
./Pokemon Race Mini (Japan) (Preview)
./Pokemon Shock Tetris (Japan)
./Pokemon Sodateyasan Mini (Japan)
./Pokemon Tetris (Europe) (En,Ja,Fr)
./Pokemon Zany Cards (France)
./Pokemon Zany Cards (Germany)
./Pokemon Zany Cards (USA, Europe)
./Togepi no Daibouken (Japan)
./Togepi no Daibouken (Japan) (Preview)
./[BIOS] Nintendo Pokemon Mini (World)

I don't like it at all. I would rather keep them all. ;__;

[sergiobenrocha2]

This is another case. What's the 'box' used in the virtual console?

[lasers]

The 'box' used in virtual console looks like this, I guess. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbA3Uqo--PM

[sergiobenrocha2]

@RobLoach there are some false positive there, titles with &

Are there any way to it show 'orphans' png ? Sometimes no-intro change the name in a way you think it's missing art (mainly Japanese titles).

[RobLoach]

there are some false positive there, titles with &

Fixed. Running another update now.

Are there any way to it show 'orphans' png ?

Like PNGs that don't match a database entry? That's a good idea. Made an issue for it.

[RobLoach]

https://github.com/RobLoach/libretro-thumbnails-check/blob/master/out/Sega%20-%20Mega%20Drive%20-%20Genesis.txt

Boxarts  1454/1701  85.48%
Snaps    1635/1701  96.12%
Titles   1633/1701  96.00%
Total    4722/5103  92.53%

[RobLoach]

https://github.com/RobLoach/libretro-thumbnails-check/blob/master/out/Sega%20-%20Mega%20Drive%20-%20Genesis%20Orphans.txt

[sergiobenrocha2]

There are some false positive there, what dat are you using? From libretro-database or these dats in this repo? Btw, why do we still have them? They are all out of date

[markwkidd]

@sergiobenrocha2 the MegaDrive/Genesis 'orphans' list got an update 4 days ago. Is it working as expected now? https://github.com/RobLoach/libretro-thumbnails-check/blob/master/out/Sega%20-%20Mega%20Drive%20-%20Genesis%20Orphans.txt

[RobLoach]

It's possible that the [ and ] brackets are messing up the check.

[RobLoach]

The [ issue is fixed.