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    • paradadf
      paradadf Staff @elvis56nl last edited by

      @elvis56nl

      Would something like this be possible or does it have to be added to the scraper itself?

      That's something sselph would need to add to his scraper.

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      • elvis56nl
        elvis56nl @paradadf last edited by

        @paradadf
        With some creative thinking i was able to make the script do what I had in mind. I decided I wanted my images in subfolders without suffixes as this makes the roms and media work in both emulation station and attract mode easily.

        I ended up making several batchfiles: fastscraper_box2d.bat, fastscraper_box3d.bat, fastscraper_snap.bat, fastscraper_mix3.bat which all downloaded the specified image type into subfolders. After running all 4 batch files I end up with all available images in the romdir sorted into the subfolders box2d, box3d, mix3, snap and video. I feel this is the best way to store roms and media files as it is self contained and can easily be moved from one installation to another.

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        • paradadf
          paradadf Staff @elvis56nl last edited by

          @elvis56nl good you found the script useful.
          Anyway, currently you can't download every single media type from screenscraper with sselph's scraper, as you wanted.

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          • elvis56nl
            elvis56nl last edited by

            Messing around with the batch file I came across something strange, when console image type is set to mix3 and on running the script you select all it downloads the 2d cover images. When selecting a specific system when running the script it downloads the mix3 images correctly.

            I'm not sure if this is because of something I changed in the script as I can't run any of the fastscraper scripts released in the last 8 months or so unmodified. I always get an error on detecting system language.

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            • paradadf
              paradadf Staff @elvis56nl last edited by

              @elvis56nl the script isn't guilty of that... it happens when I scrape too, sometimes.

              About the language recognition... you could force it by placing the right parameter in the right place. Otherwise I'd need some logs to see where the problem is.

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              • Anonpebbles
                Anonpebbles last edited by

                Hello, this is a minor issue but I'm currently trying to scrape my dreamcast games, however it doesnt seem to recognise the "dreamcast" folder. I have tried renaming it to dc, segadreamcast and dreamcast but no results. This text file appears in the folder after attempting scraping:
                Game,Error,Hash,Extra dreamcast\scraper.exe,hash not found,,

                Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks fellas

                Rpi 3 wew

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                • paradadf
                  paradadf Staff @Anonpebbles last edited by

                  @anonpebbles the scraper doesn’t scrape the folder but whatever rom file you have inside of it.

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                  • Javier Sandoval
                    Javier Sandoval last edited by

                    great exellent tool, thanks alot, i just had a problem with the batch getting stuck as it couldnt recognise the OS lenguage, i deleted that line of code, and after that it worked nice. Ive seen that other dude had a similar problem and thats how i solved mine, so perhaps you might want to look at that part of the code, im using windows 7x64 with sp1 in spanish mexico type. Thanks again.

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                    • paradadf
                      paradadf Staff @Javier Sandoval last edited by paradadf

                      @javier-sandoval si fueras tan amable de abrir un issue en github con informacion mas detallada del error, podria echarle un vistazo para intentar evitar eso.

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                      • Javier Sandoval
                        Javier Sandoval @paradadf last edited by

                        @paradadf said in [BATCH] Scrape your roms on your PC - fastscraper:

                        @javier-sandoval si fueras tan amable de abrir un issue en github con informacion mas detallada del error, podria echarle un vistazo para intentar evitar eso.

                        claro que si,gracias

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                        • IceLancer
                          IceLancer last edited by IceLancer

                          Hey!
                          I have constant crash when attempting to scrape
                          Every single time it will crash on 5 specific games in my mame game list.
                          Here is data

                          2017/11/08 00:10:18 arcade srcs:
                          2017/11/08 00:10:18 console srcs: ss,gdb,ovgdb
                          2017/11/08 00:10:18 INFO: Checking for new hash.csv.
                          2017/11/08 00:10:19 INFO: hash.csv "d9eedf6e622a8ab6a1a14486bb90ffb8" up to date.
                          2017/11/08 00:10:20 INFO: Checking for new OpenVGDB.
                          2017/11/08 00:10:20 INFO: Upgrading OpenGDB: -> "bc42a41ec8f627815ea1dee9dfcd9514".
                          2017/11/08 00:10:22 INFO: Upgrade Complete.
                          2017/11/08 00:10:22 INFO: Starting: test\columns.zip
                          panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
                          [signal 0xc0000005 code=0x0 addr=0x28 pc=0x709c45]

                          goroutine 65 [running]:
                          github.com/sselph/scraper/rom.getImage(0x9470c0, 0xc042047d80, 0x0, 0x0, 0xc04293a1e0, 0x16, 0x190, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
                          /home/sselph/go/src/github.com/sselph/scraper/rom/rom.go:366 +0xf5
                          github.com/sselph/scraper/rom.(*ROM).XML(0xc042e2ba80, 0x9470c0, 0xc042047d80, 0xc042049400, 0x6, 0x8, 0xc04203fb10)
                          /home/sselph/go/src/github.com/sselph/scraper/rom/rom.go:495 +0x62d
                          main.worker(0x9470c0, 0xc042047d80, 0xc042940180, 0x6, 0x8, 0xc042049400, 0xc04203fb10, 0xc04301a480, 0xc04301a4e0, 0xc042280a80)
                          /home/sselph/go/src/github.com/sselph/scraper/scraper.go:140 +0x4e8
                          created by main.crawlROMs
                          /home/sselph/go/src/github.com/sselph/scraper/scraper.go:223 +0x66b

                          Start : 0:10:18.64
                          Finish : 0:10:23.40
                          ---------------
                          Duration : 00:00:04,76

                          There is nothing in the folder except one single game. Columns.zip
                          And as i said regular scrape without ur batch file will go throu that without error.
                          Do u know whats causing this?

                          Ok i went and tested each line separately it seems that -download_marquees="true" is causing the crash.. i cant tell why..


                          ok Sorry it has nothing to do with ur batch, i have posted issue on sselph git

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                          • paradadf
                            paradadf Staff @IceLancer last edited by

                            @icelancer yep, exactly. That's something sselph needs to look into.

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                            • IceLancer
                              IceLancer last edited by

                              Add an option to turn off scraper.exe autoupdate. its easy to compile from git with go. And bat keeps bringing old exe instead of my new compiled one. Had to manually cut the code for update.

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                              • paradadf
                                paradadf Staff @IceLancer last edited by

                                @icelancer have you tried increasing scraper.exe version number before compiling? I‘d need to check that. If you can, please open an issue about this on github do I don‘t forget about it, please.

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                                • IceLancer
                                  IceLancer @paradadf last edited by IceLancer

                                  @paradadf Should i have? I just compiled from git

                                  BTW , answer me this if u can , thanks.
                                  Is it possible to tell batch when asking for system name , to give him folder name with space ?
                                  I am in process of sorting rom folder to their original names and i am stuck with this bat now.

                                  i tried :
                                  Sega Dreamcast
                                  "Sega Dreamcast"
                                  'Sega Dreamcast'
                                  it keeps finding Sega OR Dreamcast, as not found. But not Sega Dreamcast

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                                  • IceLancer
                                    IceLancer @IceLancer last edited by

                                    @icelancer meh 😞 not even "all" can see folders with spaces..
                                    for /F "delims=" %f in ('dir /B /A:D') do set system=!system! %f
                                    Lists folders properly:
                                    set system=!system! Sega Dreamcast

                                    Why isnt it finding Sega Dreamcast then?

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                                    • IceLancer
                                      IceLancer @paradadf last edited by

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                                      • paradadf
                                        paradadf Staff @IceLancer last edited by

                                        @icelancer EmulationStation doesn‘t have system names containing more than one word (or spaces), so I didn‘t bother taking that case into account. Do you really need it? Why don‘t you use folder names like ES?

                                        About your first question... could you send me your compiled version so I can test it?
                                        Maybe changing == by GEQ in the update check might be enough.

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                                        • IceLancer
                                          IceLancer @paradadf last edited by IceLancer

                                          @paradadf Sorry but yeah, i am kinda heavy on heaving everything sorted top notch. Making rom folder names to their specs is priority to me. I already spent a week modifing all database to match it.
                                          it also makes all 3 frontend systems working in sync
                                          BUT its not priority for you at all. I found workaround for batch fastscraper by doing dirty hack to it.

                                          here is scraper

                                          https://mega.nz/#!MxQ0HJQa!h6RU6cHjV83F8T7d7wPDOfFJdwo_P8t0EKz-ruVDa4c

                                          it reads :
                                          fastscraper ver. 14.09.2017

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                                          • paradadf
                                            paradadf Staff @IceLancer last edited by

                                            @icelancer I‘ll see what I can do. Hopefully I find some time to test one thing before sselph uploads a newer version 🙂
                                            I meant the scrapers version, not fastscrapers version. But don‘t worry... your compiled version should be enough.

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