About "Converting Collections to new Canada Goose Format"

Issues 2508 Goose
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Hi @bitter_bizarro and thanks for providing the tool to convert collections to the new Goose format. Life saver! :sign_of_the_horns:t2:

Two small things -

  1. When browsing the collection the game names are not shown in full. Any easy way to fix this?
  2. How can we uninstall this from the Task Toolkit once weā€™re done with it?

Thanks!
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  1. Might be easier if you post a screenshot of what youā€™re seeing. If you mean the game name is really long text and not scrolling you can control that with a theme override. muxcollect.ini is the one you would want to edit.

  2. To removed you can use the Dingux Commander app and navigate to /opt/muos/share/task to delete the script from there.

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Thanks and sorry for not clarifying regarding the names.

I can post a screenshot but itā€™s very easy to explain - in the gameā€™s standard folder (eg MAME Arcade) Iā€™m seeing it as ā€œElevator Actionā€. In my collection however itā€™s showing as simply ā€œelevatorā€. Another example, ā€œBomb Jack (set 1)ā€ appears as ā€œbombjackā€ when browsing my collection. There are more example I can share but you get the idea Iā€™m sure.

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sounds like the conversion process used the filename for the display name. You can edit the collection files directly and change the 3rd line. This post talks about where the files are located

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OK, got it. Thanks! :+1:t2:

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Isnā€™t that normal especially on MAME? But the system automatically corrects it as soon as you pair it with the right core.

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In my case the cores are correctly paired - the game launches without issues, itā€™s even displaying its box art. But the name stays the same, even after launching it.

8

do they show up correctly in Content Explorer? Both screens pull from the same place so if it works on one it should work on the other. Unless the name is not in our DB. In that case you would have to add it to /MUOS/info/name/global.json

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Hereā€™s a side-by-side comparison which will hopefully help to better explain the issue. The example here is ā€˜Pang! 3ā€™ but the same goes for the rest of the games in my collection - their name appears correctly and in full in their respective core folder but not when browsing the collection.

muos_example
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are you on the latest patch Loose Goose? Iā€™m not seeing that problem in the current version.

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Yeap. The very latest (2508.4). Happy to provide any further info to help you troubleshoot this.

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I feel like there maybe extra spaces at the end of the collection files that are causing problems detecting the name. take a look at

/MUOS/info/collection/pang-{hash}.cfg

see if there are any spaces at the end of the 3rd line. It should be just pang3 no spaces.

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No 2nd or 3rd lines in all .cfg files. Itā€™s just one line:

Pang_cfg
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ah, were your collections older than Pixie? It really should have had at least 2 lines. In this example the 2nd line should have been CPS1

15

Yeap. Started with Banana and kept it for Pixie (where I donā€™t think I changed anything, just kept everything as it was without ever having any issues).

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I got a feeling the structure was different in Banana where it didnā€™t have the second line. I can probably put together another task script to fixup your collection

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this should fix your current collection but it would be a good idea to back them up before running the script just to be safe

Fix Collection Missing Lines.muxzip (1.2 KB)

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Yeap! This totally worked! Thanks so much! :sign_of_the_horns:t2:

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