Sselp Scraper Command Line vs Sselp GUI Menu
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When scraping by command line /op/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper my Pi wouldnt find zero arcade/mame/neo geo roms when set to adb. I enabled download and convert videos with no luck. Yet, when I ran the scraper from the GUI menu in Retropie_setp.sh it used the same adb and found every image and video with not a single one missing. The error was Has Not Found or No Valid Roms in Zip.
Is there a flag I am missing? It's not a big deal to convert them in handbrake so I already did and am good for the bulk in the future, but am still curious as if I needed to do this again for a different build or a friend, what exactly changes this from working perfectly to not working whatsoever. All the consoles worked perfectly, just not the arcade/neo geo.
Thank you
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@trailjacker Have you tried adding the -mame=true flag to your commands when scrapping via command line?
I have had success with the following commands when scrapping arcade roms on my setup
First I Scrape Flyers (from theGamesDB): /opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -mame=true -mame_src=gdb,adb,ss -mame_img=fly,b,t,s -max_height=540 -max_width=394 -image_dir=media -image_path=media
Then I scrape Videos and Marquees (from ScreenScraper) run this: /opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -mame=true -mame_src=ss,gdb,adb -download_videos=true -download_marquees=true -image_dir=media -image_path=media -video_dir=media -video_path=media -marquee_dir=media -marquee_path=media
Some notes:
- I run the above commands directly in an arcade system's folder (i.e. /roms/mame-libretro, /roms/fba)
- The image priority is for my setup where I want flyer artwork first. That can be easily changed in the -mame_img flag by reordering the values.
- If you don't care about flyer artwork you can maybe ignore the first command (as its used only for getting good quality flyers from gamesdb).
- I also have flags in place to store images and videos in a /media directory in a given systems rom folder (i.e. /fba/media). If you want a different location just make sure to change -video_dir -image_dir and -marquee_dir too.
- I haven't tried using adb as a source yet
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No, I hadn't used the -mame=true command, I must have missed that one. I will try that when I get home tomorrow.
On a side note, how well do you like the marquees? Do they get in the way or can they be turned off? Are they only good to download depending on your theme?
Thank you again!
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Cool, hoping that does the trick. I dug into the scrapper code a few months back while running into a similar case and that flag sorted things out for me.
Re: Marquees I'm not currently using a theme that supports them. Though I do like to have them downloaded just in case I want to change to a theme that does. As far as how they look it very much depends on the theme and sadly I haven't tested many yet.
Size wise they look to take up between 200kb and 400kb for the ones I have so if you are limited on space and aren't planning to use a theme that displays them make sure to remove the "-download_marquees=true" flag from the above commands
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@trailjacker said in Sselp Scraper Command Line vs Sselp GUI Menu:
No, I hadn't used the -mame=true command, I must have missed that one.
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