How to scrape amiga uae files

Yorkie

Hi all,

I've created a bunch of configuration files for uae4arm so that I can launch Amiga games directly from EmulationStation
( using the instructions on the wiki:- https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Amiga)

However, is there a way I can scrape and get images to go in my gamelist.xml?

I tried the sselph scraper with option -extra_ext=".uae", but to no avail.
Cheers,

EctoOne

@Yorkie I used Universal XML Scraper to scrape my uae files. I batched changed the extension to .zip and set UXS to search only for filenames (not hash). It worked pretty good exept most games had no cover image. For files it didn't find right away i tried renaming the zip to something mentioned on the screenscraper.fr site.
After that i changed the extension back to uae and searched the gamelist.xml for zip and replaced it with uae as well

Stavros7575

@EctoOne Can you please help me do the same? I wan to do the exact same thing, get images and preview videos for my .uae files with Universal XML scraper. Can you describe a more detailed way to do this? Please it would be more than helpfull.

EctoOne

@stavros7575 What else is there to explain? Have you used UXS before?

Stavros7575

No my friend. I just found it and used it to find and download video previews for my amstrad games. Worked great. But with uae files i cant do nothing. I renamed a game for testing only to .adf and then i used the xml to find the video. It found it and when you highlight the game it plays, but when i changed back the .adf to .uae the video stopped working. Can you please explain it a little bit more.

EctoOne

@stavros7575 you also need to edit the gamelist.xml that UXS generates. Because you changed the extension back to adf, EmulationStation can't identify the game with the gamelist.xml because the name in the file still has the adf extension. I suggest using something like Notepad++ and do a search and replace. Search for .adf and replace it with .uae. If you have scraped multiple games, you should replace all found entries. After that, everything should work.
I also suggest that you scrape on your PC and not directly on your Pie, with that you can have your media folder and the gamelist.xml within your Rom folder and not in the default folders that can't be easily accessed without root.

steptoe

the scraper that somebody found seems to look very very promising and has a LOT of supported systems that some scraper support but not all. This appears to offer the best of all other scrapers. SSelph is usually my choice, plus I can scrape via the PC as well, but doesn't cover evertything. UXS is better, but again doesn't cover everything but does have more control and easier to use with the GUI

Haven't tried it as I'm still getting to grips with installation and calling it to scrape all my ROMs, even I can get it to compile for the Windows PC even better and should be much faster as I can then plug my USB drive into the PC and do it that way

https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper

https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper/blob/master/PLATFORMS.md

Uses the same sources as other scrapers but also adds sources some don't use, this should mean better chance of getting all the images you are looking for plus more

WEB: openretro.org
WEB: thegamesdb.net
WEB: worldofspectrum.org
WEB: adb.arcadeitalia.net (Arcade Database by motoschifo, arcadedatabase@gmail.com, youtube)
WEB: screenscraper.fr
LOCAL: localdb (scrapes exclusively from cached resources)
LOCAL: import (imports resources into the local cache)

... More scraping sources will be added in future releases!

All in all, it looks very promising and actually has continued regular support. Maybe more if he gets more interest. Somebody has already asked if it can be incorporated into the RetroPie set-up scripts

Stavros7575

Thank you for the help my friend. I did it. All works fine now.