GitHub guide - scraping with PC

[nickdj]

I would like to hear others experience from using this batch file. If it works and everyone is happy with it I'll create a how-to on GitHub.

[ekstreme]

It works great for me. The only thing that I dislike is that when using the batch scraper ROM suffixes eg (World) (Rev A) are kept and displayed, even if the ROM is renamed first. Scraping within Recalbox does behave like this.

[rockaddicted]

Hi and thank you for the work about the scrapping from a PC. If you could update the wiki with your method, that would be great =).

[0zzy]

hi all, i have followed this guide and firt of all this one https://github.com/digitalLumberjack/recalbox-os/wiki/Scrape-your-games-with-your-PC-%28EN%29 but when i reboot the system, xml files are empty and no game details or images are shown in the emulator menu. what’s wrong?

[acris]

Sorry for my english try this via putty :

killall emulationstation

upload your gamelist and pictures after via putty : nohup /etc/init.d/S31emulationstation restart & reboot rpi

[0zzy]

Thanks Acris, this solved for me! I didn't think to kill ES process!

[nickdj]

After scraping with a PC, uploading it to Recalbox, and then copying to the correct location you will need to reboot Recalbox.  I am assuming after scraping there is a corresponding gameslist.xml file?  This shouldn't be empty although I'm aware descriptions are missing from FBA roms. The gameslist.xml file should not be empty as the scraper only creates this file if it finds roms.  Which roms/folder isn't working for you?

[0zzy]

hi nickdj, after scraping with PC and uploading the file in the right place, and after rebooting the xml file are empty again. As Acris suggests, i had to kill Emulationstation process before uplodaing xml, after that i rebboted and all goes right.

[nickdj]

That's very interesting.  I've not had this issue to be honest, however, I'm planning to have another go at the scraper especially as I'm thinking of creating a new theme which uses larger images.   What I may do is include the 'kill ES' command as part of the process.  I take it this is only run after you've uploaded the files to the 'system' folder but before you copy them?  If so that shouldn't be too hard.

[0zzy]

Yes, ES process must be killed before copying xml to the right ./emulationstation/ ecc folder. that's strange..more strange why happen to me only!

[liquidsnakeblue]

I'm lucky I found this thread.  Works wonderfully.  100x better than the method listed at https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Scrape-your-games-with-your-PC-(EN)   Thank you!   Liquidsnakeblue