[BATCH] Scrape your roms on your PC - fastscraper

[slakka]

@paradadf Ok so I guess arcade scrape is out for now.

I checked a few of the Atari 5200 ROMs, SHA1 values matched those on SS. There's data there, descriptions, box art, etc. and the total number of ROMs from No-Intro's set is the same as the total number of games on SS, 107 games. Maybe my directory name should be different?

Thanks.

[paradadf]

@slakka directory names are only important if you scrape arcade systems. For the rest, you can call your folders whatever you want. The only thing I can think of is that sselph's scraper hashes the unzipped rom, so even if the .zip hash is on the database, the .a56 (or whatever) might not. Those are the ones that need to be added.

[eb2016]

what database/website does it get its data from? I'm keen to have a look.

[paradadf]

@eb2016 all the information is here.
For example:
https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/2594/batch-scrape-your-roms-on-your-pc-fastscraper/9

[eb2016]

Does this have issues at all with Gameboy Advanced? I just ran it on a bunch of systems and it worked fine but it didn't scrape any of my GBA titles.

[paradadf]

Please, read the thread if you want to know how everything work. Just a few messages before I wrote this:
https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/2594/batch-scrape-your-roms-on-your-pc-fastscraper/48
It depends on the data source you choose and if the rom hash is in that database. Like all scrapers, it is always better to use no-intro romsets.

[wggallagher]

@paradadf Can you please explain to me what im doing wrong? Ive downloaded scraper.exe and fastscraper.
Ive put them in a folder called "roms" on my desktop and inside said folder are all the systems with roms that i want to scrap. I click on fast scraper, it starts, asks me "which systems do i want to scrape? All? " i enter "all"
then i append the existing game list. hit enter and nothing happens. What am i doing wrong?

[paradadf]

@wggallagher it is impossible that nothing happened... what does the console says? Do you get the duration? Have you downloaded the correct scraper.exe (64bit version on a 32bit computer)?

[wggallagher]

@paradadf I believe so, I'm running Windows 10. I downloaded the windows386 .zip. should be the right one.

[paradadf]

@wggallagher what does the console says after you press ENTER on the appending questions?

[wggallagher]

@wggallagher 64 bit computer

[wggallagher]

@wggallagher nothing. It just goes off screen. Like it closes

[paradadf]

@wggallagher what happens if you type a specific folder?

[wggallagher]

@paradadf if I run fast scraper as admin, it says I dont have scraper.exe, even though I do, and asks if if like to go to the website to get it

[wggallagher]

@paradadf if I tell it to scrape nes, instead of all, it does the same thing after the append question. But I can just run scraper.exe and it starts downloading pictures into a "images" folder it creates

[paradadf]

@wggallagher have you changed anything inside the batch file? Try downloading it again. I have no idea what is happening. Otherwise, it must be something wirh your computers configuration.

[wggallagher]

@paradadf no, I didn't touch the batch file. I'll try downloading again. I see that it's suppose to produce a images folder and a gameslist.txt. Where do the they go on the memory card, if I get this to work? I know I have to stop emulationstston. I just don't know where to put those 2 new items though when I get them

[paradadf]

@wggallagher They go exactly as the structure you created on your computer (that should be the same as on Recalbox). Next to the roms goes the gamelist.xml and the subdirectory downloaded_images.

[wggallagher]

@paradadf ok, the 2 items created go in the roms folder. OK, thank you very much.

[wggallagher]

@paradadf I redownloaded and same results. Guess im SOL, thanks for your help anyway.