Scraping PC Engine CD / TurboGraphx CD games

gomineko

Is there any way to batch scrape game data for PC Engine CD games?

I’ve created a separate folder for them, but I’m not sure what to use as the <platform> tag in the es_systems.cfg file (which I believe is the bit that the scrapers use to identify what the system is). If I use <platform>pcengine <platform> then nothing scrapes. Presumably there is a different platform tag, or is it just not possible to batch scrape PC Engine CD games?

At the moment I’ve marked the platform as unknown, which means you can scrape them individually within Emulation Station.

Just wondering if there is an easier way. Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated.

My system is a Pi4 using Retropie version 4.7.1.

mitu

Have you tried pcenginecd as the platform ? It's supported by ScreenScraper, not sure about TheGamesDB.

gomineko

@mitu

Thanks for the swift reply.

I’ve tried pcenginecd (and a few others) but no luck. I’ve just tried again, but I get an error saying “platform not supported”. I’m using Skyscraper, which is set to use screenscraper.fr.

The code from es_systems.cfg is…

<system>
<name>pcenginecd</name>
<fullname>PC Engine CD</fullname>
<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pcenginecd</path>
<extension>.7z .pce .ccd .chd .cue .zip .7Z .PCE .CCD .CHD .CUE .ZIP</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS pcengine %ROM%</command>
<platform>pcenginecd</platform>
<theme>pce-cd</theme>
</system>

mitu

@gomineko said in Scraping PC Engine CD / TurboGraphx CD games:

I’ve tried pcenginecd (and a few others) but no luck. I’ve just tried again, but I get an error saying “platform not supported”. I’m using Skyscraper, which is set to use screenscraper.fr.

I was referring to EmulationStation's built-in scraper, Skyscraper doesn't read es_systems.cfg .
What version of Skyscraper are you using ? Support for pcenginecd has been added in version 3.6.11 - 1 year ago.

gomineko

@mitu

Spot on. It was that simple. I just needed to update Skyscraper (thought I had, but evidently not).

I thought all the scrapers used <platform> tag. So, not only was I barking up the wrong tree trying to fix this, I was in the wrong forest. D’oh!

Thank you for the guidance. Much appreciated.