[BATCH] Scrape your roms on your PC - fastscraper

[Keladir]

Ok. I got the scraper to scrape my ROM files and create the xml file and images folder. When I put my SD card in and open the main folder, all I have is a boot folder of around 50 MB (of a 32 GB card) that doesn't show any of my ROM files to be able to place the images folder and xml file in there. When I put the SD card into my raspberry pi zero and load up Retropie, all my ROMS are on there and I'm able to play them, but it doesn't show any of the image files or game data if I put the folder and xml onto the boot area I'm getting when I plug it into my PC.

What am I doing wrong? Are the ROMS on a separate partition, or something?

[paradadf]

@Keladir first of all, you are on the recalbox forum. for retropie specific stuff, you should use its forum.

Now about your "issue"... Windows PCs can't read the extra partitions, so you need special software to access them. And as clear as I was on my instructions on the first post, you need to place both, gamelist.xml and downloaded_images folder next to your roms. So I just don't get why would you place it anywhere else. I doesn't make any sense.

[Keladir]

@paradadf I opened it up on Retropie's file explorer to poke around, and when I imported my ROMS via USB thumb drive, it copied over the images folder and xml file into the same directory as all the roms, "next to" them as you say, yet they're still not showing up when I load into a console's game list.

Your initial post doesn't say where on the SD card to transfer the XML and images folder to.

[paradadf]

@Keladir again, this is the recalbox forum, if you have problems transfering the files, make your question on the retropie forum.

Your initial post doesn't say where on the SD card to transfer the XML and images folder to.

Next to your roms is a unique location. Wherever the correct place were you copied your roms for retropie, that's the place! I don't know how retropie works, but my initial post also states that you must kill emulationstation before trying to edit/copy/transfer/touch the gamelist.xml. And that is valid for emulationstation in general.

Sorry but either you don't want to understand, or you are not paying attention to what you read.

[airart]

hi, I copied the roms of my PC, but I get this error

I apologize for my English, but in Italian forum I did not have answers

[paradadf]

@airart mamedb is down and thus, unscrapable. I've seen that sselph just added a mirror for it and enabled SS as source for mame as well. He just hasn't compiled and released a new version with all those changes yet so I can test and upgrade the batch.

[paradadf]

fastscraper has been upgraded and is fully functional again.
New feature: you can open a folder browser and choose the roms folder of your recalbox directly over the network to scrape from it!
I have set ScreenScraper as the only source because the quality is superior to any other. You can expand or modify it easily if you wish. Enjoy!

[kevinnash]

Hi,

How do we download it on github ?

I don't see any download link there.

[paradadf]

You can select RAW and copy the plain text to a txt file and rename the extension to .bat

[maximus37]

This tool is fantastic!! Nice work!!

One problem though, I cannot scrape NeoGeo roms, I get the following output:

2017/01/10 10:06:56 arcade  srcs: ss
2017/01/10 10:06:56 console srcs:
2017/01/10 10:06:56 INFO: Starting: C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\3countb.zip
2017/01/10 10:06:56 INFO: Starting: C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\2020bba.zip
2017/01/10 10:06:56 INFO: Starting: C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\2020bbh.zip
2017/01/10 10:06:56 INFO: Starting: C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\2020bb.zip
2017/01/10 10:06:58 ERR: error processing C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\2020bb.zip: image: unknown format
2017/01/10 10:06:58 INFO: Starting: C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\2020bb.zip
2017/01/10 10:06:58 ERR: error processing C:\Users\\Downloads\neogeo\2020bbh.zip: image: unknown format
2017/01/10 10:06:58 INFO: Starting: C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\2020bbh.zip
2017/01/10 10:06:58 ERR: error processing C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\3countb.zip: image: unknown format
2017/01/10 10:06:58 INFO: Starting: C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\3countb.zip
2017/01/10 10:06:58 ERR: error processing C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\2020bba.zip: image: unknown format
2017/01/10 10:06:58 INFO: Starting: C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\2020bba.zip
2017/01/10 10:06:58 ERR: error processing C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\2020bb.zip: image: unknown format
2017/01/10 10:06:58 INFO: Starting: C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\2020bb.zip
2017/01/10 10:06:58 ERR: error processing C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\2020bbh.zip: image: unknown format
2017/01/10 10:06:58 INFO: Starting: C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\2020bbh.zip
2017/01/10 10:06:58 ERR: error processing C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\3countb.zip: image: unknown format
2017/01/10 10:06:58 INFO: Starting: C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\3countb.zip
2017/01/10 10:06:58 ERR: error processing C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\2020bba.zip: image: unknown format
2017/01/10 10:06:58 INFO: Starting: C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\2020bba.zip
2017/01/10 10:06:58 ERR: error processing C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\2020bb.zip: image: unknown format
2017/01/10 10:06:58 INFO: Starting: C:\Users[...]\Downloads\neogeo\alpham2.zip
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal 0xc0000005 code=0x0 addr=0x14 pc=0x408fe7]

goroutine 22 [running]:
panic(0x7e9580, 0x113a0030)
        /usr/local/go/src/runtime/panic.go:500 +0x331
main.crawlROMs.func2(0x11472820, 0x114aa900, 0x0, 0x11472810, 0x114755a0, 0x11475520)
        /home/sselph/go/src/github.com/sselph/scraper/scraper.go:295 +0x527
created by main.crawlROMs
        /home/sselph/go/src/github.com/sselph/scraper/scraper.go:328 +0xbd7

Start    : 10:06:56.62
Finish   : 10:06:58.67
         ---------------
Duration : 00:00:02,05

[acris]

Hello @maximus37
the server for arcade is down.

[maximus37]

@acris Oh, well that explains it

How can I check the status of it? How long has it been down? Is there a site I can keep an eye on?

Thanks!

[paradadf]

@maximus37 @acris The problem with NEOGEO right now (using SS as source) is explained here: https://github.com/sselph/scraper/issues/128
So most likely sselph will need to compile a new version with the corrections to allow us to scrape it.

[maximus37]

@paradadf Thanks for the link!

[maximus37]

@paradadf Hi, I noticed the issue was fixed? Do I simply download the latest version of fastscraper? Do I need to include any options for the scraping?

[paradadf]

@maximus37 it wasn't a problem from sselph's scraper, but from the default used database (SS). So the version you have should work. But it is always better to use the latest

About the options, on top of the batch you can modify the different flags to your taste, change sources, type of images, etc. So is up to you which configuration you prefer.

[airart]

I try to download or copy fastscraper.bat new version but server is down

[kevinnash]

Github is OK on my side : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paradadf/recaltools/master/fastscraper/fastscraper.bat

[airart]

@kevinnash is new version ? is not working .... i'm so sad

[paradadf]

@airart it is working... you need scraper v.1.2.0 (latest version).