Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?

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.