Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mame/lr-mess

Folly

I will see if I can do some scraping.

kiro

@Folly I'm inserting as much roms as possible from the romset you pointed me too...it will still take some time....

Once this is done I'll be creating extra "systems" in the DB so it will Mao to you gamelists.

Last but not least, I've implemented a 'sort' command in retrosctaper that will take the ROMs and place them in their corresponding system folder. This is not yet released though.

Folly

@kiro said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

@Folly I'm inserting as much roms as possible from the romset you pointed me too...it will still take some time....

Once this is done I'll be creating extra "systems" in the DB so it will Mao to you gamelists.

Great !

Last but not least, I've implemented a 'sort' command in retrosctaper that will take the ROMs and place them in their corresponding system folder. This is not yet released though.

Could be a nice feature but I am not sure I want roms moved without my knowledge.
Or do I have to look at it from another perspective ?
Will it be off by default ?

( hope I did not disappoint you with this message ;-) )

Folly

@DTEAM said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

@Folly

Hi Folly,
A part of the classich roms come from game and watch Madrigal romset. I have a SSH issue with my scraper today. Do you have time to scrape game and watch and put only the videos on your drive. With that, i’ll be able to do all games on the gamelist. Thanks

Here is the scrape from all madrigal's done with @kiro 's scraper.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VR9y3Vy31BaoHmYtacoMM5H2kfwCP3Xz

kiro

@Folly This will be an optional feature (--sort) and it will copy but not 'move' the roms so you can have a look at how the final structure would look like... :-)

No feedback is disappointing if it makes sense :-)

Folly

@kiro

Ok, I understand.
Will have a look when you have implemented it.

Folly

@kiro said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

@Folly I'm inserting as much roms as possible from the romset you pointed me too...it will still take some time....

You should also look at the mame-sl romset. ( probably all non-arcade machines (mess) )
Multiple games are packed as one zip file sofwarelist/hash file wise.
The files have to be extracted to get the individual games like msx1_cart.zip contains the msx1 carts.
Understandable ?

kiro

@Folly Hm I'll have a look, is it somwehere along the one in the email?

Folly

@kiro

Yes.
I think you will get it.
Otherwise I will send you one.

kiro

@Folly Thanks!

kiro

Hi @Folly @DTEAM et all...

One quick request for your gamelists (I'm working on importing them, but also extending some retroscraper functionalities at the same time).

In you 'tigerrz' gamelist, there is a tag:

	<provider>
		<System>Tiger R Zone</System>
                 ...
	</provider>

Would it be possible to extend it and add something as:

	<provider>
		<system>Tiger R Zone</system>
		<type>LCD Handheld</type>
               ....
	</provider>

And then add this to all the other gamelists?

This would help create the system in the retroscraper DB and also indicate the type. Of course, you can add more tags if you want to, like start year, end year, company, and such.

Let me know if it is possible so I wait for this or not.

Thanks!

Folly

@kiro

Is it only for importing ?
Or do other themes require these tags too ?

If it is for importing only I suggest we try to replace genre with type and releasedate with year for your import only.
If possible, it would be the fastest way.

or
We could try to make an xml extracting data from mame.
I already saw the tag year when using the option -listxml with name.
Would that be an option ?

kiro

@Folly It is actually only for importing yes.... just to give a bit more context info to the systems...I'm not sure what's the best approach and if this info is available somewhere already or not..

About the mame thing, yes, as long as I can link it back to each gamelist, it's perfectly fine.

Folly

@kiro

Would this be good enough :

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gameList>
	<provider>
		<System>Tiger R Zone</System>
		<software>Skraper</software>
		<database>ScreenScraper.fr</database>
		<web>http://www.screenscraper.fr</web>
	</provider>
	<game>
		<path>./rzindy500.zip</path>
		<name>Indy 500</name>
		<desc>Indy 500 (handheld)</desc>
		<image>./media/emulationstation/TigerRZone_Indy500.png</image>
		<video>./media/emulationstation/Tiger R-Zone - Indy 500.mp4</video>
		<marquee>./media/emulationstation/Tiger R-Zone - Indy 500m.png</marquee>
		<rating>0</rating>
		<year>1996</year>
		<developer>Tiger R-Zone</developer>
		<publisher>Tiger R-Zone</publisher>
		<type>LCD Handheld</type>
		<playcount>4</playcount>
		<lastplayed>20221006T104735</lastplayed>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./rzbatfor.zip</path>
		<name>Batman Forever</name>
		<desc>Batman Forever (handheld)</desc>
		<image>./media/emulationstation/TigerRZone_Batman Forever.png</image>
		<video>./media/emulationstation/R-Zone Batman Forever.mp4</video>
		<marquee>./media/emulationstation/TigerRZone_Batman Foreverm.png</marquee>
		<rating>0</rating>
		<year>1995</year>
		<developer>Tiger R-Zone</developer>
		<publisher>Tiger R-Zone</publisher>
		<type>LCD Handheld</type>
		<playcount>1</playcount>
		<lastplayed>20221103T153613</lastplayed>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./rztoshden.zip</path>
		<name>Battle Arena</name>
		<desc>Battle Arena (handheld)</desc>
		<image>./media/emulationstation/TigerRZone_Tiger R-Zone - BattleArenamToshinden.png</image>
		<video>./media/emulationstation/Tiger R-Zone - BattleArena.mp4</video>
		<marquee>./media/emulationstation/Tiger R-Zone - BattleArenam.png</marquee>
		<rating>0</rating>
		<year>1996</year>
		<developer>Tiger R-Zone</developer>
		<publisher>Tiger R-Zone</publisher>
		<type>LCD Handheld</type>
		<playcount>2</playcount>
		<lastplayed>20221103T153812</lastplayed>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./rzindy500.7z</path>
		<name>Indy 500</name>
		<desc>Indy 500 (handheld)</desc>
		<image>./media/emulationstation/TigerRZone_Indy500.png</image>
		<video>./media/emulationstation/Tiger R-Zone - Indy 500.mp4</video>
		<marquee>./media/emulationstation/Tiger R-Zone - Indy 500m.png</marquee>
		<rating>0</rating>
		<year>1996</year>
		<developer>Tiger R-Zone</developer>
		<publisher>Tiger R-Zone</publisher>
		<type>LCD Handheld</type>
		<playcount>4</playcount>
		<lastplayed>20221006T104735</lastplayed>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./rzbatfor.7z</path>
		<name>Batman Forever</name>
		<desc>Batman Forever (handheld)</desc>
		<image>./media/emulationstation/TigerRZone_Batman Forever.png</image>
		<video>./media/emulationstation/R-Zone Batman Forever.mp4</video>
		<marquee>./media/emulationstation/TigerRZone_Batman Foreverm.png</marquee>
		<rating>0</rating>
		<year>1995</year>
		<developer>Tiger R-Zone</developer>
		<publisher>Tiger R-Zone</publisher>
		<type>LCD Handheld</type>
		<playcount>1</playcount>
		<lastplayed>20221103T153613</lastplayed>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./rztoshden.7z</path>
		<name>Battle Arena</name>
		<desc>Battle Arena (handheld)</desc>
		<image>./media/emulationstation/TigerRZone_Tiger R-Zone - BattleArenamToshinden.png</image>
		<video>./media/emulationstation/Tiger R-Zone - BattleArena.mp4</video>
		<marquee>./media/emulationstation/Tiger R-Zone - BattleArenam.png</marquee>
		<rating>0</rating>
		<year>1996</year>
		<developer>Tiger R-Zone</developer>
		<publisher>Tiger R-Zone</publisher>
		<type>LCD Handheld</type>
		<playcount>2</playcount>
		<lastplayed>20221103T153812</lastplayed>
	</game>
</gameList>

kiro

The provider bit is good enough (and you actually showed the one I took inspiration from... the only additional tag would be 'type' for the system....

I can add these myself but I'm not sure of which types are there or how the systems are called (other than the gamelist directory, which is my working assumption)

DTEAM

@Folly

I finalized "classich". I have deleted some images because it was a handheld picture over a handheld video (artwork) and it was ugly.
8 videos are missing :
Chicky Woggy (Table Top)
Donkey Kong Jr (Tabletop Coleco)
Donkey Kong Jr (Tabletop Nintendo)
Hippo Teeth (Sporty)---> missmatch video
HotLine (Mini)
HotLine (Sporty)
Packri Monster
Snoopy (Tabletop)

Folly

@DTEAM

Ok I will have a look when I can.
I have been busy with creating a new classich.ini list.
Hope I get a good list now as it is quite difficult.

Folly

@kiro said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

The provider bit is good enough (and you actually showed the one I took inspiration from... the only additional tag would be 'type' for the system....

I can add these myself but I'm not sure of which types are there or how the systems are called (other than the gamelist directory, which is my working assumption)

I think not all info is available.
And it seems genre isn't always the equivalent for type.
We should think about that for a while.

DTEAM

@Folly

On TIGER artworks GDrive and KONAMI H artworks GDrive from Matthew Marino, they added more systems. I'll take a look on that too for our list and the last MAME romset .

kiro

@Folly Makes sense, also analyzing next gamelist, apfm1000, first item is called backgamm.7z (or zip does not matter), but I have the impression that the file should be backgamn.7z (or zip, does not matter)...

I cannot find a backgamm.zip rom except for the msx :-)

is it possible to validate?

Thanks!