Posts made by Zyphos

You guys ROCK! Thanks for this amazing release.

Sorry if this is a stupid question. But its not quite clear from the FAQ.
Will I be able to update from this beta to the stable release once its out in the future and keep all my settings. Or will I have to install the stable fresh and start over?

@dalittlebosssam
Hey, Not a solution for your problem but I have the same Setup with the latest beta and the shutdown script installed and it works fine for me. So I think its not a problem of the beta.

@paradadf
Skraper looks great but is still in Beta and not available for mac so far.
Besides that I used sselph -as I wrote- not ES. (But actually I'm not that far into what the difference is)
I think in the end the tool you use to get the xml file is not that important. Important is to understand where to put them and what the problem is.
Most of us are not that deep into the whole technical thingies and need an easy step by step guide to know what to do. And I couldnt find one anywhere. So I tried stuff until it worked for me.

Keep up the great work. Looking forward for the stable. Then all this hopefully is obsolete anyway.

There seems to be some people who want the beta ready as a christmas gift.
So here is what I did to get everything scraped nice and shiny:

By the way I used the latest Beta Image on a Pi 3B + (Most N64 seems to run quite good-ish)

Setup:

• Get access to your recalbox via a FTP Tool (I used Cyberduck on a Mac) https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/acces-via-cyberduck-(FR) (French but you get the clue)

• Search for the Recalbox/Share/Roms folder and go to your system of choice.

• if not already there copy your roms to the folder

• restart your recalbox (or in this case only the emulationstation)

• now scrape your system as usual (start > scraper > scrape now….) maybe only select one system at a time to keep track.

• go back to your FTP, maybe reload. You will see there is now a folder (if it wansnt there already) called downloaded_images with all the images for the games in it.

• The problem is the gamelist.xml is missing which tells the system where to find the images and the other game info. Or it might be there and doesnt include the right data.

What you have to do now is to generate this xml file on your PC or Mac

• Credit to https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Scrape-your-games-with-your-PC-(EN)
  But i did some things a bit different. Keep in mind I did this on a Mac. For PC this might be a bit different.

• Download the Binary of sselph scraper https://github.com/sselph/scraper/releases

• Make a Folder on your Desktop (name is not important but I call it ’dude’ for the hack of it) put the same roms in there as you put on the recalbox

• Copy the ‘scraper’ unix file from the sselph download in the same ’dude’ folder (I think its an .exe on PC)

• open Terminal type in ’cd’ and then a space and then you drag the ’dude’ folder also in the terminal. Now there should be ’cd the/exact/path/tothefolder/dude - press enter

• now you are in the folder but you need the path again so drag the ’dude’ folder path again in the terminal followed by (without a space)

/scraper -image_path="./downloaded_images/" -img_format=png -console_src=„gdb“

• press enter and wait.

• What you should get is again a folder with nice boxart in it and boy oh boy a nice little gamelist.xml file

• Now ignore the images and just copy the xml file via FTP into the system Folder you are working on, right there between all the roms. (not in the image Folder)

• Restart Recalbox

now you should have all the Infos and the pretty little Boxart in it.

Additional what you can do if you dont like the recalbox tryptich style of Images with Screenshot-Box-Logo you can experiment with downloading other Boxart with the sselph on your computer and replace the pngs in the downloaded_image folder. I used just screenshots I downloaded as follows. Replace the code line above with this

/scraper -image_path="./downloaded_images/" -img_format=png -console_src="ss" -max_width 800 -console_img="s"

Other codes you can use to personalize your scraping are listed here:
https://github.com/sselph/scraper/wiki
Under Command Line Flags

Hope that helps
Marry Christmas

I found a workaround for the scraper problem. For the beta for now, till the stable release comes out.
If you are interested hit me up.

@olivierdroid92 Thanks for getting back.
I have the beta running quite smoothly for some weeks now.
Only major issue right now: is there are temporary fix for the scraping problem? Would be nice to have box art for the games. But scraper does not work. A known issue in the forum and will surely be resolved in the stable version. But for now?

I know it's an annoying question but I'm gonna ask it anyway.
Do you guys think the stable update with the 3B+ support will come out before christmas?

Would love to give my girlfriend a Recalbox Pi 3B+ as present.
Should I have my hopes in a stable version before the holidays or should I try to configure the beta as good as it gets?

Keep up the great work. Looking forward to the new version. Cheers.