Identify a game using GameDB. Supported consoles:
GB
- Nintendo Game BoyGBA
- Nintendo Game Boy AdvanceGBC
- Nintendo Game Boy ColorGC
- Nintendo GameCubeGenesis
- Sega GenesisN64
- Nintendo 64NeoGeoCD
- SNK Neo Geo CDPS2
- Sony PlayStation 2PSP
- Sony PlayStation PortablePSX
- Sony PlayStationSaturn
- Sega SaturnSegaCD
- Sega CDSNES
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System
For manually checking individual games, we recommend using the GameID web app. For bulk/programmatic lookups, we recommend using the command line Python script, GameID.py
:
usage: GameID.py [-h] -i INPUT -c CONSOLE [-d DATABASE] [-o OUTPUT] [--delimiter DELIMITER] [--prefer_gamedb]
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-i INPUT, --input INPUT Input Game File (default: None)
-c CONSOLE, --console CONSOLE Console (options: GC, N64, PS2, PSX) (default: None)
-d DATABASE, --database DATABASE GameID Database (db.pkl.gz) (default: None)
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT Output File (default: stdout)
--delimiter DELIMITER Delimiter (default: '\t')
--prefer_gamedb Prefer Metadata in GameDB (rather than metadata loaded from game) (default: False)
If the database (db.pkl.gz
) is not provided via -d
, it will be downloaded from this repo. This is very slow, so we strongly recommend providing it if you are running GameID in bulk (or if your environment does not have internet connection).
This tool is being actively developed, and updates will be pushed somewhat frequently. As such, be sure to periodically git pull
an up-to-date version of this repository to ensure you have access to all of the latest features and optimizations.
./GameID.py -d db.pkl.gz -c <CONSOLE> -i <GAME_FILE>
find psx_games/ -type f -iname "*.cue" -o -iname "*.iso" | parallel --jobs 8 ./GameID.py -d db.pkl.gz -c PSX -i "{}" ">" "{}.meta.txt"
rm -f db.pkl.gz && ./scripts/build_db.py db.pkl.gz
- Thanks to MiSTer Addons for the idea and for help with testing!
- Thanks to Artemio Urbina and the other developers of the 240p Test Suite, which we use as example files!
- Thanks to Daniel Ji for creating the Pyodide web app!
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