Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?

Folly

@kiro said in Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?:

The slow installation time is due to python libraries for GUI and SSH.

Well, I think, if you know, that the process can take some time then it's basically NOT a problem.
As long as you don't recognise it as a freeze.

kiro

@Folly Hi, just fixed the formatting of the xml, so now it looks nice when editing (although it will not change the validity of the xml itself).

Regarding other systems, the scraper will read your emulation station systems file (usually located at /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg)

As soon as you add more systems to your retropie via the retropie_setup script and ROMs, the scraper will automatically detect them.

Hope this helps!

Folly

@kiro

Aha a nice xml format, that's quick.
I will try it when I can !

I don't mean system but software.
Some archimedes files are not recognised, where does your script get the data and how can that be improved so more software of the archimedes is recognised.

Folly

@kiro said in Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?:

@Folly Hi, just fixed the formatting of the xml, so now it looks nice when editing (although it will not change the validity of the xml itself).

I just tried and I got a pretty xml !
Though I get these errors from emulationstation :

mmal: mmal_vc_component_create: failed to create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1:ENOMEM)
mmal: mmal_component_create_core: could not create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1)
mmal: mmal_vc_component_create: failed to create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1:ENOMEM)
mmal: mmal_component_create_core: could not create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1)
mmal: mmal_vc_component_create: failed to create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1:ENOMEM)
mmal: mmal_component_create_core: could not create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1)
mmal: mmal_vc_component_create: failed to create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1:ENOMEM)
mmal: mmal_component_create_core: could not create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1)

I just tried also my "pretty" reformatted one which will give the same now.

Not sure why it reports these errors.

Edit :
I turned off the gamelist for archimedes, turns out this issue remains.
So it's probably not from your gamelist.xml after all.

kiro

@Folly Hi! Good to hear...

My scraper grabs information from various sources on the internet...but it also has a system of learning when something is missing and trying to update missing information whenever possible. The more people scraping the roms with my scraper the better this learning feature works. I also manually update the DB every so often, so keep your scraping coming :-)

duglor

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duglor

@Folly said in Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?:

@duglor

I could place the files on my google-drive for you.
Is that easy enough ?

Yes. That would be excellent.

kiro

@duglor Hi, I think you make a valid point. I just started working on a smaller version that could be inserted into the retropie-setup environment and used directly from there. Is going to take a while so hang on tight!

Thanks for the feedback!

kiro

@duglor Ok that was faster than expected:

https://github.com/zayamatias/retroscraper-rpie

Let me see how it works for you, I need to understand if the documentation in the repository is clear enough for everybody :-)

Thanks!

Folly

@duglor said in Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?:

@Folly said in Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?:

@duglor

I could place the files on my google-drive for you.
Is that easy enough ?

Yes. That would be excellent.

If you feel up to it I recommend to try the slimmed down version Of @kiro first.

duglor

@kiro said in Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?:

@duglor Hi, I think you make a valid point. I just started working on a smaller version that could be inserted into the retropie-setup environment and used directly from there. Is going to take a while so hang on tight!

Thanks for the feedback!

No problem. The other scrapers need competition. It makes things better in this area (emulation) :)

duglor

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kiro

@duglor you can use the flag --systems Archimedes and only that one should be scanned. Maybe I should put the command options more clearly 🙂

duglor

@kiro Oh, then i will try it later today. It's our anniversary!! be well!!

duglor

@kiro @Folly Can someone try this first before I do? I am just getting close to fixing all the nonsense that happened to my Pie from using an experimental installation.

Or Kiro, can you paste me the commands exactly as i should type them in to just scrape archimedes large image box covers? Even proper spacing? Also, if the names of my roms are not in the format of game -nation..etc...the new standard...will your scraper guess at them?

be well and sorry for the hesitancy. - anxious old man

Folly

@duglor

python3 retroscraper.py --systems archimedes

kiro

@duglor I'd recommend that you copy your SD card yo another one just in case. Then you can apply the changes you want without corrupting your current installation.

Thanks @Folly for the command, just add --preferbox if you want to download boxes instead of screenshot.

Folly

@duglor

The scraper has been improved very much.
@kiro and I are working on it to get it even better.

I am sharing here my archimedes scrape, temporarily :
(will remove it later !)
google-drive link removed

Just place the files in :
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/archimedes

And use the extracted files from the archimedes.zip from the mame_sl romset.

duglor

@Folly I got it, thank you.