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Hi all, I've been attempting to create a custom Pinball database from the VPMAN product, where I've been hoarding Visual Pinball tables over the years. I've got many different versions of tables and rather than rename the original downloaded VPT files, I've used VPMAN to add in the publisher, developer, release date etc. Thanks to the custom nature of GameEx I've been able to export from VPMAN into a copy of the template.mdb file, and append the additional data to the table names. Loading this into GameEx for my Visual Pinball emulator setup works well, however... Strangely, if the original pinball filename (in my GoodName field in my custom DB) does NOT have brackets in it, it is used as the name shown within GameEx even if I have the 'use database names' option set to 'Yes'. All other tables that have brackets in both the filename and the 'GoodName' field. e.g. - in the same file: GoodName = Airborne Avenger 1.3.vpt Name = Airborne Avenger (1.3) (1977) Shown = Airborne Avenger 1.3 (the GoodName - which I don't want) GoodName = Abra Ca Dabra (Gottlieb) (1975) (Luvthatapex) (RC1).vpt Name = Abra Cadabra (RC1) (1975) Shown = Abra Cadabra (RC1) (1975) (the Name, which I want) So.. in my 1000+ tables, I have a strange mixture of GoodName field and Name field being shown. I have written some update statements so I can automatically generate a new mdb file from my VPMAN database, so I can adjust these anyway I wish - so I'm happy to fiddle some more, but has anyone seen this problem before, and knows how to resolve it? Should NoIntro or TOSEC be used instead to prevent this mixture of display names? Is this a 'show database names' bug or is my hacking-together-assumptions not quite right? Thanks Bombdog