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02/24/2016 at 15:04 #117988cengherbogdanParticipant
hi. i just try scraper but the thegamesdb.net is down. how can i get games description with picture in emulatorstation ?
thank you02/24/2016 at 18:21 #118011mikeveli20ParticipantWait until it’s back up, or you can add them yourself by manually editing the xml file. I’ve had to do that for a few games where for whatever reason the scraper won’t pick up the game from thegamesdb. Mobygames.com is a good alternate source that I use for images and descriptions. If you have tons of games to scrape though I would just wait for thegamesdb to be up otherwise it will take forever.
02/24/2016 at 19:49 #118024cengherbogdanParticipantthank you so much. yes. i have tons of games. i will wait for thegamedb . thanks again
02/24/2016 at 23:12 #118050mikeveli20ParticipantHopefully it’s back soon. This outage has been longer than any previous ones that I can remember.
Edit: Likely won’t be for awhile according to this latest update: https://www.facebook.com/thegamesdb/posts/1058742734182457
02/25/2016 at 20:46 #118118newparadiseParticipantWhere do I find the xml, and where do I put the image files?
02/25/2016 at 20:56 #118119mikeveli20Participant/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation
Then you’ll see a ‘downloaded_images’ folder and a ‘gamelists’ folder. Within each will be a folder for each system.
02/25/2016 at 21:41 #118136newparadiseParticipantCool, thanks. Found it, do you know if there is an example out there of what the layout/formatting is? They are all blank right now.
EDIT: nm, found it
02/26/2016 at 14:34 #118225zitraxParticipantIf you use https://github.com/sselph/scraper you can pass skip_check and use_ovgdb or similar on the commandline. Worked for me, see its help output.
02/26/2016 at 16:33 #118243cengherbogdanParticipanthttp://archive.vg/ is online. can i scrape database from there ?
02/26/2016 at 17:38 #118251newparadiseParticipantI don’t see a downloaded_images folder, just gamelists. Inside gamelists, I go to mame-advmame, and open gamelist.xml. It was empty, just had </gameList>. So I opened up mame-mame4all even though I don’t use it anymore. There is path, name, playcount, and lastplayed. I don’t see any place for image though. Any help appreciated thanks!
02/27/2016 at 01:55 #118314mikeveli20ParticipantYou’ll have to create the folder if you haven’t scraped any games yet. It should go in the /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation folder.
Once inside the xml, add an
<image>
tag to your game with the path to the image.E.g.
<image>/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/downloaded_images/snes/Super Mario World-image.jpg</image>
There’s also a symlink that will take you to the emulationstation folder which is a bit shorter to type: /home/pi/.emulationstation
02/27/2016 at 14:43 #118349zerojayParticipantthegamesdb is back up, btw.
02/29/2016 at 14:32 #118542mydriazeParticipantTricky one: I’m playing F-Zero on SNES. How to edit metadata? F-zero spelling find nothing. Neither F Zero, neither FZEro. I’m lost, I don’t know how to match this game with the database!
03/04/2016 at 02:52 #119014crbrxParticipantPress select on the game and scroll down to edit metadata. It lets you do it for individual games. If that doesn’t work, make a manual entry in the proper folder, as referenced above.
03/04/2016 at 02:59 #11901503/04/2016 at 08:37 #119028mydriazeParticipantThanks for your reply. I’m not saying i don’t know how to use/scrap metadata, i’m saying that the F-zero spelling did not work properly with the scraper: FZERO, F ZERO, F-ZERO spelling didn’t match anything.
03/04/2016 at 08:43 #119030herbfargusMemberSselphs scraper matches based on hash data not necessarily the game title, but his database may not be complete
03/04/2016 at 20:28 #119070mydriazeParticipantI will give a try, thanks for the hint. ;)
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