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USB Loader GX: How to fix Okami title problem with "Titles from GameTDB On"
I did a number of Google searches on this and wasn't able to come up with an answer, but found my own fix.
I like using the titles from the GameTDB because they're generally formatted better than the titles pulled from the file names -- particularly, colons are not allowed in file names, but many games have colons in the title. The workaround is to replace the colon with a dash, but it makes the name longer and doesn't look as good. For instance, change "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" to "Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 3". Not that this is a big deal, but it means that you need to name your files exactly what you want them to be in the games list, and the names don't look nice.
But then there is the "Okami" problem. The "O" in Okami in GameTDB is really an Ō (an O with a bar over the top). USB Loader GX doesn't know how to handle this funny version of "oh-bar" and so it puts "kami" last in the titles list.
The fix I found is to edit the GameTDB database file on the SD card.
On my card, the file is: D:\apps\usbloader_gx\wiitdb.xml
1) Open wiitdb.xml in Notepad (right click on the file, open with, choose Notepad)
2) Search for "kami (USA)" (choose edit / find in the notepad toolbar)
-------- note #1: Searching for "okami" doesn't find "Ōkami".
-------- note #2: There is an entry for "ookami" elsewhere in the database, so searching for "kami" by itself doesn't work nicely.
3) Copy "Ōkami" with the oh-bar
4) Replace all instances of "Ōkami" with "Okami" (choose edit / replace in the notepad toolbar)
Now save the file back to your SD card.
Now I played with this some more -- it is annoying to me when "like" games have different name formats -- There may be "007 Golden Eye" and "James Bond 007: From Russia with Love" -- so I did the same find / replace so that all the Bond games started with "James Bond 007". Likewise, I added "Star Wars:" to the beginning of the Star Wars Games.I haven't gotten through the "Rabbids," "Raving Rabbids," and "Rayman's Raving Rabbids" yet.
Disclaimer -- if you update the GameTDB database file, you'll need to re-implement your edits. I suggest saving a copy of the edited file as a backup on your PC in case it gets over-written.
I hope this helps other people with similar issues on naming!
take care,
Joe
I like using the titles from the GameTDB because they're generally formatted better than the titles pulled from the file names -- particularly, colons are not allowed in file names, but many games have colons in the title. The workaround is to replace the colon with a dash, but it makes the name longer and doesn't look as good. For instance, change "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" to "Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 3". Not that this is a big deal, but it means that you need to name your files exactly what you want them to be in the games list, and the names don't look nice.
But then there is the "Okami" problem. The "O" in Okami in GameTDB is really an Ō (an O with a bar over the top). USB Loader GX doesn't know how to handle this funny version of "oh-bar" and so it puts "kami" last in the titles list.
The fix I found is to edit the GameTDB database file on the SD card.
On my card, the file is: D:\apps\usbloader_gx\wiitdb.xml
1) Open wiitdb.xml in Notepad (right click on the file, open with, choose Notepad)
2) Search for "kami (USA)" (choose edit / find in the notepad toolbar)
-------- note #1: Searching for "okami" doesn't find "Ōkami".
-------- note #2: There is an entry for "ookami" elsewhere in the database, so searching for "kami" by itself doesn't work nicely.
3) Copy "Ōkami" with the oh-bar
4) Replace all instances of "Ōkami" with "Okami" (choose edit / replace in the notepad toolbar)
Now save the file back to your SD card.
Now I played with this some more -- it is annoying to me when "like" games have different name formats -- There may be "007 Golden Eye" and "James Bond 007: From Russia with Love" -- so I did the same find / replace so that all the Bond games started with "James Bond 007". Likewise, I added "Star Wars:" to the beginning of the Star Wars Games.I haven't gotten through the "Rabbids," "Raving Rabbids," and "Rayman's Raving Rabbids" yet.
Disclaimer -- if you update the GameTDB database file, you'll need to re-implement your edits. I suggest saving a copy of the edited file as a backup on your PC in case it gets over-written.
I hope this helps other people with similar issues on naming!
take care,
Joe
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