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    [SOFT] Universal XML Scraper - Windows Scraper for your Recalbox

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    • screech
      screech last edited by

      @tubarao2007 I think like @paradadf,
      @Tick-Lpsk problem is very specific du to is geolacalisation.

      If it works for Mame πŸ˜‰ it should work for everythings...

      Your snes problem is certainly du to your Rom. Can you give me one or two name of your Rom ?

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      • tubarao2007
        tubarao2007 last edited by

        Yes, I found the problem.... The name of files is not exactly from screenscraper...
        ex.: mine is A.S.P. - Air Strike Patrol (USA).zip --> SS is A.S.P. Air Strike Patrol (USA).zip

        Any suggestion to fix it????... I renamed in bath rename software 80%. but some files need more attention..

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        • screech
          screech last edited by

          No real sollution if your Rom haven't neither the good name or the good CRC....

          You can look for No-Intro Romset πŸ˜‰ they are pretty good and all of them are referenced πŸ˜‰

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          • tubarao2007
            tubarao2007 last edited by

            Thats ok... I got the No-Intro e all is good. Thanks a lot...
            One more question: I have a lot of clones rom in mame and snes. There is a software to find and delete duplicate roms?

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            • screech
              screech last edited by

              Look at my signature πŸ˜‰

              Clean your Romset with Universal ROM Cleaner

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              • ogroto
                ogroto last edited by

                Hi screech, your tool is amazing brother, keep it up the good work!
                Just some constructive criticism:
                The tool takes a lot of time , at least when i scrap 700 roms or so.
                Also i couldn't scrap roms that were already scraped from the oficial recalbox scraper, i don't know why,but it just skips them and does not download anything at all. If you fix this then this could be a heaven app πŸ˜ƒ
                regards

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                • screech
                  screech last edited by

                  Hi @ogroto

                  I'm working on a Version 2 πŸ˜‰ Much more optimised and stable (with new XML component)
                  So I hope it become faster than this version πŸ˜‰

                  For your problem, if you want to "rescrape" the game already scraped by recalbox inner scraper, 2 solutions :

                  • In Edit/Config menu choose "New XML File"
                  • Or simply delete your old gamelist.xml on your recalbox.

                  Clean your Romset with Universal ROM Cleaner
                  Scrape your Romset with Universal XML Scraper

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                  • ogroto
                    ogroto last edited by

                    Hello! i think i have already done both things. And still it does not download them. Both are 700+ roms snes and megadrive.

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                    • screech
                      screech last edited by

                      Have you deleted Image in download_image directory too ?
                      If a picture exist, it didn't download it again to spare some time πŸ˜‰

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                      • ogroto
                        ogroto @screech last edited by ogroto

                        @screech Yes i deleted both, gamelist.xml in megadrive roms folder and also the complete download_image directory. I'm scraping rigth now will tell you soon how it goes. Thanks.
                        Edit: So, after 90 mins, the scraper only downloaded 3 images, which are the latest roms i added to the list. It created the xmls but only 3 images downloaded.
                        Edit2: ok so i think i found the issue, the scraper seems to not like .zip roms, at least for megadrive and snes. I use them compressed because i use a small sd 16gb card, and when it tries to scrap them zipped it doesn't work, but if i uncompress some rom the program works ok
                        Edit3: Ok so, there was a problem with my roms, half of them are not any of the correct CRCs that are listed in screenscraper.fr, which is really odd and also makes me redownload but found the issue. By the way, the software works a lot faster if you do everything in your pc HDD and then transfer the files manually to the Raspberry Pi. Screenscraper.fr takes a lot of time to load for me (i'm from Argentina) so maybe that is why also the app is slow. It is taking time but looking great so far! I'm really happy thanks again

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                        • Tick Lpsk
                          Tick Lpsk last edited by

                          another question screech
                          when i scrape Neo Geo game (neogeo folder)
                          it end up scrape game as MAME (as shown on software )
                          and it's scrape just screenshot , no cartridge images
                          but when i rename folder to Neo-Geo then scrape
                          the program ask me what type of profile
                          then i choose Neo Geo AES
                          then it's work fine everything is include in one image
                          the question is why neogeo folder is now work foe neo geo game?
                          thanks

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                          • supernature2k
                            supernature2k last edited by supernature2k

                            Hi @Tick-Lpsk , it is because the neogeo roms ARE mame games!
                            As screech's soft check the db based on hash, it find the hashes in mame games.
                            To sum up, you have the MVS version of games, not AES.

                            A workaround for this is to go to Edit>Settings and then Advanced at the bottom right.
                            From that advanced settings screen, set RechSYS value to 0. That way, UXS will always ask for the system. Tell the soft it's AES and here you go!

                            EDIT: In fact you also need to change the RechAPI in the same screen. Set it to 3|1|2.

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                            • screech
                              screech last edited by

                              That's it ^^

                              thanks @supernature2k πŸ˜‰

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                              • Tick Lpsk
                                Tick Lpsk @supernature2k last edited by

                                @supernature2k wow!!!!
                                that's work man!
                                thank you supernature2k
                                also screech for great program

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                                • daviduco
                                  daviduco last edited by daviduco

                                  Last night i scraped snes succesfully, i'm trying to scrape it now and it fails.

                                  I can't scrape anything, it scrapes 600 roms in 2 minutes. Has anything changed? I've tried another 9 systems with exact same result.

                                  [22:11:02] - Recuperation des informations des systemes
                                  [22:11:03] - Fichier d'informations non valide
                                  [22:11:03] - Selection du systeme
                                  [22:11:03] - Recuperation des Profil
                                  [22:11:03] - Recuperation des champs du profil
                                  [22:11:03] - Nombre de roms trouvees : 547
                                  [22:11:03] - Creation des parametres pour le Mix
                                  [22:11:03] - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                  [22:11:03] - Calcul des Hash en : 0.24s
                                  [22:11:03] - Recuperation des informations de la Rom no 1 (CRC + SYSTEM)
                                  [22:11:04] - ()Rom non trouve : 90 Minutes - European Prime Goal (Europe).sfc (Hash : 1AD61BD0)
                                  [22:11:04] - Fin de l'ecriture des informations de la Rom no 1 en 0.551s
                                  [22:11:04] - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                  [22:11:04] - Calcul des Hash en : 0.24s
                                  [22:11:04] - (
                                  )Rom non trouve : Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (Europe).sfc (Hash : 946313FB)
                                  [22:11:04] - Fin de l'ecriture des informations de la Rom no 2 en 0.299s
                                  [22:11:04] - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                  [22:11:04] - Calcul des Hash en : 0.14s
                                  [22:11:04] - ()Rom non trouve : ACME Animation Factory (Europe).sfc (Hash : AAD3A72D)
                                  [22:11:04] - Fin de l'ecriture des informations de la Rom no 3 en 0.19s
                                  [22:11:04] - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                  [22:11:04] - Calcul des Hash en : 0.14s
                                  [22:11:04] - (
                                  )Rom non trouve : ActRaiser (Europe).sfc (Hash : 09097B2B)
                                  [22:11:04] - Fin de l'ecriture des informations de la Rom no 4 en 0.19s
                                  [22:11:04] - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                  [22:11:05] - Calcul des Hash en : 0.22s
                                  [22:11:05] - (*)Rom non trouve : Actraiser 2 (Europe) (En,Fr,De).sfc (Hash : 630E16A1)
                                  [22:11:05] - Fin de l'ecriture des informations de la Rom no 5 en 0.272s
                                  [22:11:05] - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                  [22:11:05] - Calcul des Hash en : 0.24s
                                  [22:11:05] - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                  [22:11:05] - Debut de fusion des fichiers
                                  [22:11:05] - Bilan

                                  [22:11:05] - Scrape Annule
                                  [22:11:05] - Roms trouvees :0 / 5
                                  [22:11:05] - Roms ajoutes :0 / 5
                                  [22:11:05] - Temps moyen par Rom :0.3s
                                  [22:11:05] - Temps Total :0h 0m 2s

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                                  • screech
                                    screech last edited by

                                    Sorry. The server provider have problem. It will came back tomorrow.

                                    Clean your Romset with Universal ROM Cleaner
                                    Scrape your Romset with Universal XML Scraper

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                                    • thanosazlin
                                      thanosazlin last edited by

                                      just used it , works great. but, i only picked up 9 out of 206 N64 games? my .z64 files all have the name of the game no other special characters or extra text like (USA) or (U) [!] in the name of the roms. just wondering what might be causing them to not get picked up?

                                      example of one of the roms in the _nintendo 64_missing.txt file

                                      1080 Snowboarding.z64 08FE81C7 16 777 216 07:33.00 2004-03-28 FA27089C425DBAB99F19245C5C997613

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                                      • paradadf
                                        paradadf Staff @thanosazlin last edited by

                                        @thanosazlin please, read the forum:
                                        https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/3842/how-to-screenscraper

                                        There you have the explanation why you fon't get roms scraped. Just a hint: the filename must be exact as the one in the database (without extension), when the CRC hash doesn't match.

                                        This is the thread for the version 2 btw:
                                        https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/4690/soft-universal-xml-scraper-v2

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                                        • azvarel
                                          azvarel last edited by

                                          Suggestion for UXS implementation: when the internet connection fails, instead of redoing the scraper starting again, downloading the images where it left off and then being able to mount the gamelist.xml

                                          My connection is 35mbps and the scrapper download is very slow, 40 scrapers for example here gives an estimate of 54 minutes 42 seconds.

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                                          • paradadf
                                            paradadf Staff @azvarel last edited by

                                            @azvarel you can change the scrape mode in general configurations from new file to add new game (or something like that). There is no need to scrape everything again.
                                            About the speed... try contributing to screenscraper.fr to become more threads πŸ˜‰

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