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

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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 ๐Ÿ˜‰

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

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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

                  If your question was answered, please mark it as solved: Topic Tools -> Ask a question + Topic Tools -> Mark as Solved

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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.

                    Zodian Theme | #SNESProject

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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 ๐Ÿ˜‰

                      If your question was answered, please mark it as solved: Topic Tools -> Ask a question + Topic Tools -> Mark as Solved

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                      • azvarel
                        azvarel @paradadf last edited by

                        @paradadf But if you drop the internet connection, it does not generate the gamelist.xml file, the program simply gives error and closes. Then this option is not valid.

                        Zodian Theme | #SNESProject

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                        • screech
                          screech last edited by

                          @azvarel normally there is a timeout function with retry... It try to download 3 times with 20 sec timeout for every file... And if it can't download, it will try the next rom... So it's strange you have a "crash"...

                          40 roms in 54minutes is very longue... (more than a minute by rom :S )

                          normally it's about 1 or 2 sec by roms... (even without multi-thread)

                          Wich rom are you trying to scrape ?
                          Exemple Big BIN or ISO files can take long time but it's not a "scrape" problem, it's an "Hash" problem...
                          Your computeur need to calculate a value based on the file you scrape...
                          If it's a big file and you have a pretty slow computer, it can take lot's of time...

                          For these "type" of file, You need to consider .CUE or .GDI files.
                          UXS will put you BIN in hidden without scrape them if you have a .CUE file with the same name ๐Ÿ˜‰

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

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                          • azvarel
                            azvarel @screech last edited by

                            @screech my pc no is slow, is AM3+ with 16gb RAM, I'm doing this via wifi connection, it has some influence, I did not put the rpi3 on the router via ethernet cable. This time it was roms of CPS 2 that took time, even today I could not even do those of NEOGEO, simply the program UXS gave error and closed the application, I lost hours trying here and I decided to test the scraper atari 2600 and to my surprise, it worked. I tested initially with 16 roms, and the UXS gave an estimated term of 58 min and 28 sec, time that gives enough to watch an episode of a TV series. ๐Ÿ˜ž

                            Zodian Theme | #SNESProject

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                            • eb2016
                              eb2016 last edited by

                              Is there a mega noob friendly tutorial for this to help me get started with it?

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                              • azvarel
                                azvarel @screech last edited by

                                @eb2016 translate the tutorial https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/3489/soft-universal-xml-scraper-portuguรชs/

                                @screech I'm running test with ethernet cable to see if it goes faster and still very slow, but so far the UXS did not give error and did not close application

                                Zodian Theme | #SNESProject

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                                • screech
                                  screech last edited by

                                  It's reaaly weird that is so slow...
                                  Can you check your antivirus and/or firewall ? MAybe it's them slowing down UXS...

                                  I just try a scrape on network, and it works fine.. Less than 1sec with a simple screenshot, and between 2 and 4 sec for a classic MIX.

                                  Maybe you can try with the "digimirror" function unchecked (in GENERAL CONFIG)

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

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                                  • briefer
                                    briefer last edited by

                                    Hi

                                    thank you for the great work. The scrapper works great... except for zxspectrum games. Not even 1 game is found, and I have thousands of rom files.

                                    When I look for the hash numbers in the log, I cannot find any match in the database.

                                    Any help would be greatly appreciated...

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                                    • tavareslfelipe
                                      tavareslfelipe last edited by

                                      Is there a way to do this on MacOS? I tried run this scrapper on Wine, but it didn't work.

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                                      • DarkMatter
                                        DarkMatter last edited by

                                        First of all thanks for the tutorial.

                                        I'm able to run the scraper, and it finds 100% of the roms ๐Ÿ™‚ I went and checked \RECALBOX\share\roms\lynx and I see the downloaded_images folder with the game images, and there is a gameslist.xml file. However when I checked the system the images do not show by any of the games. I tried a restart, and still no luck.

                                        I'm at a loss at how to proceed. I believe when it says "kill emulation station" before scraping that isn't working b/c the frontend is still loaded and showing on the TV screen in the other room while scraping occurs? I'm not familiar with using SecureShell, but I simply connect via network share.

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                                        • stamstamstam
                                          stamstamstam last edited by

                                          Hello,
                                          I'm trying to use Universal XML Scraper64, but all I get is a fatal error (problem connecting to the database).
                                          Firewall and Antivirus are clear, no idea what's going on. I'm using WIndows 7 64 pro.
                                          Would someone be kind enough to point me the right direction please? ๐Ÿ™‚
                                          Thanks!

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                                          • KillerQ
                                            KillerQ last edited by

                                            I seem to be having the EXACT same issue. I have used XML scraper several times in the past with 100% success. Now, for the past few days it will just make a bunch of 0kb png files or no files at all.

                                            Something has definitely changed with the newest update or the server or something.

                                            Even the roms that would scrape a few weeks ago no longer scrape

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