PSX Scan not finding properly named ROMs

Libretro Lakka
#1

I’ve found the readable dat files which get converted into the rdb files (or so I’ve been led to believe) at https://github.com/libretro/libretro-database/blob/master/dat and they don’t contain any CRC or hash of the ROM images for Sony Playstation 1 so I assume that if I have a .cue and corresponding .bin file that are named exactly what the dat file says it should be named, for example “Ape Escape (USA).cue”, then the scanner would pick it up. Well, it doesn’t.

I meticulously went through each and every .cue and .bin I had, matched the serial numbers from the binary images to the dat file and named the files what they should be but the scanner absolutely refuses to pick up those games. What am I doing wrong? I feel like this scanner thing isn’t designed very well. Aside from creating a custom playlist or editing the playlist files, how can I get the scanner to find the ROMs that, according to all the documentation, should be found correctly?

#2

The isos are matched against the redump checksums. http://redump.org/discs/system/psx/

#3

That still doesn’t make sense because the ROM in my example, “Ape Escape”, has an identical MD5 hash to that listed in redump, so the files are exactly the same and match up perfectly with redump but it wasn’t picked up by the scanner in lakka. So there must be something else I’m missing or something is broken.

My File Details: Ape Escape (USA).bin MD5: de4e7ab78c08bd03712e83c14d4cf642 SHA1: 466cce4bcd6992f57227abd270323bcdad2fb7fc Serial: SCUS-94423

Link to Ape Escape in redump http://redump.org/disc/3086/

I also downloaded the cuesheet from redump and it matches mine exactly.

[QUOTE=fluffymadness;40054]The isos are matched against the redump checksums. http://redump.org/discs/system/psx/[/QUOTE]

#4

You’re right…there is no checksum at all in the db…I wonder where I read about the redump for psx…whatever. I tested this, and for me there are also some games that don’t get picked up by the scanner, despite correct name. I think you should open a github issue on this, probably something is broken somehow. :confused:

#5

Opened an issue on github https://github.com/libretro/Lakka/issues/390