Versatile C++ game scraper: Skyscraper

stevas

Do you mean config.ini? I'm not aware of anything specific to import, but I've actually commented literally everything out of config.ini except for my screensaver login (which, incidentally, also doesn't work - and I know it's valid, as it works in Skraper).

stevas

Erm... Okay.

I thought I was meant to be able to use subdirs with import?

It works as long as I have them in:
/Import/videos
/Import/screenshots

muldjord

@stevas You have them backwards. It should be:

/home/USER/.skyscraper/import/megadrive/videos
/home/USER/.skyscraper/import/megadrive/screenshots

That's why :)

And concerning your ScreenScraper login, it has to look exactly like this:

[screenscraper]
userCreds="USER:PASS"

If you type it in correctly with a : between the username and password, it will work. :)

peligwe

Trying to scrape Philip's CD-l. Would I need to under mame?

muldjord

@peligwe I'm not too knowledgable about that platform. But it seems to be lr-mess, which uses the mame naming convention I think. So maybe. :)

stevas

@muldjord

Gaaaaaaaaaaaah! Thanks, I did see what I'd done wrong once I dug into the config.ini!

As for the password, I do have the : in there, yeah. But it still seemed to be giving me messages at the start about it being an anonymous account. Lemme try it again this week sometime...

stevas

@muldjord

Actually, I will do that now.

So, it looks like I had:
UserCreds="me:pass"

Which is really easy to miss (for me anyway), i.e. I had the first letter capitalised. Doh again.

Seems to be working as I have more than the 10000 limit now...

Much obliged, outstanding work!

peligwe

I think this question may have been asked before but, is there a way to make skyscraper use the downloaded screenshot in place of the video snap when creating a gamelist?

mitu

@peligwe Just disable videos when generating the gamelist and videos will not be added to it.

muldjord

Hi guys, I'm just about ready to release Skyscraper 3.5.6 with the promised Pegasus game list parser. Currently awaiting some testing by users.

Another user requested --flags onlymissing to be added to the RetroPie Skyscraper script. @mitu I've added it in my fork. Let me know if you want me to PR it. I've tested it and it works without issue. Basically just added the option to the gather options menu.

mitu

@muldjord said in Versatile C++ game scraper: Skyscraper:

@mitu I've added it in my fork. Let me know if you want me to PR it

Nice, that's a good addition. You can send a PR if it's not too much trouble - I'll give it a test and maybe add the info to the wiki.

muldjord

@mitu No problem at all. I've created a PR for it.

muldjord

Skyscraper 3.5.6 released: https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper

Added 'neogeocd' platform (Thank you to 'igno2k' and 'meveric' for suggesting it)
'screenscraper' module now supports region for screenshots (Thank you to 'cameronhimself' for pointing this out)
Low disk space check for cache is now calculated from cache folder location
Skyscraper initial output now shows frontend and extras when generating game lists
Changed 'gamelistFolder' config.ini option to 'gameListFolder' but kept old variable name for backwards compatibility
Added 'gameListBackup' config.ini option to allow for game list backups being created on each run (Thank you to 'igno2k' for suggesting it)
Attract-Mode now recognizes '$HOME' in emulator file
Refactored Attract-Mode media folder getters
Fixed rare faulty matches from 'esgamelist' module in cases where last part of 'path' was a match with filename (Thank you to 'akamming' for reporting this)
Exporting for Pegasus frontend now supports preservation of old game list key-value pairs (Thank you to user 'HugLifeTiZ' for suggesting this)
'--cache report' now also adheres so excludeFiles and includeFiles (Thank you to user 'spilinek' for pointing this out)

Skyscraper 3.5.6 is finally here! It contains the promised Pegasus metadata preservation parser. Basically it means that if you add custom fields to your metadata.pegasus.txt files in either the header or game entries, they will be preserved when regenerating the gamelist using Skyscraper.

A lot of other stuff has made it into the release. Some minor fixes to a bunch of stuff, and a new config.ini option that enables game list backup. Set gameListBackup="true" in the [main] or a [FRONTEND] section and instead of overwriting the game lists, it will add a timestamp to the current one before exporting the new one.

I've tested it of course, but please let me know if you run into issues with the new additions / changes.

Happy scraping!

muldjord

Just added a frontend overview, better explaining how frontend game list generation works in Skyscraper. Check it out here!.

Clyde

A great update with many useful additions! My personal favorites are the neogeocd support and the game list backup option.

That said, what is the difference of the latter's location in [main] or [FRONTEND]?

muldjord

@Clyde It's simply a matter of when it's used (this is true for many options by the way, it's all described here). You might only want game list backup to be enabled for certain frontends. In that case you can add the option under the desired frontend section like so:

[pegasus]
gameListBackup="true"

But if you prefer Skyscraper to create a backup no matter what frontend you are currently generating game lists for, you simply add it to the main section instead like so:

[main]
gameListBackup="true"

Clyde

Thanks for the explanation. 👍

stevas

@muldjord
Any reason why some games are being skipped for me on import (mainly unlicenced, but a couple of legit sonic the hedgehog too)? It says "no returned matches" in the skipped.txt. Am I enabling this in the config.ini somehow?
The thing that's confusing me is: I'm using screenscraper.fr, and I'd assume skyscraper is not seeing them there... But that's where I got the images from in the first place (via Skraper)? Is your app and the Skraper one using a different dB? What exactly is the import command matching the titles against?

These are up to date and clrmamepro'd no intro roms.

I've not updated skyscraper by the way, still on the previous version.

muldjord

@stevas Have you read the import documentation thoroughly? It's all in there: https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper/blob/master/docs/IMPORT.md

stevas

I did, and I'm not seeing the section which covers my issue tbh. Thanks anyway.