Retro pi Scrapper

A Former User

@mediamogul How can i run it, i have installed it using retropi script but what is the actual command line to use it. Does it work with mame

mediamogul

@badboy1985ro said in Retro pi Scrapper:

what is the actual command line to use it.

sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

The whole process is detailed in that link. It does support Mame as well.

A Former User

i meant how to tun the scrapper from command line

mediamogul

@badboy1985ro

I'm not sure I know what you mean by "tun".

Edit:

If you mean "tune", then you can select the systems you want to scrape, as well as various other options using the instructions in that link.
If you mean "run", then you can use the command I posted above in conjunction with the full instructions in that link.

A Former User

@mediamogul Run, sorry about that

meleu

@badboy1985ro there's an option in retropie_setup to use the sselph scraper with no need of command line. As @mediamogul said, the instructions are on the link he has posted.

mediamogul

@badboy1985ro said in Retro pi Scrapper:

Run, sorry about that

Not a problem.

A Former User

@meleu There was in the old versions of retropi, with ver 4.0.2 and after updating all the packages, i can't find it

mediamogul

@badboy1985ro

I'm not in front of my setup at the moment, but step number two in the link above says it should be located in the 'Configuration / Tools' menu of the RetroPie Setup. Is it not there?

qix77

This also brings up another question. I have many ROMs that I have collected since the mid 90's. Spelling is a problem. For instance, 'Revenge of Shinobi' would be RSHINOBI.SMD or revshin.smd and even have one as R_Shinobi.smd. Then I have my TG16 ROMs as Bommber_Man_97(U)(!)(S).PCE etc...

Is there a program that I can run that can add correct naming of ROMs so that things like 'Scraper' can correctly recognize it? Maybe not but I just wanted to ask. I have way too many ROMs with really messy spelling.

BuZz

@qix77 Sselphs scraper doesn't use the filenames for most platforms. It uses checksums.

qix77

@BuZz said in Retro pi Scrapper:

Sselphs scraper

Thanks for the information. I'll try it out.

A Former User

One more thing..
"SSscrapper" is great because it is fast and support allot of emulator. How ever.
Using emu station scrapper the pictures are different also i used the same source. "TheGamesDB". With "SScraper" the picture is pixelated while with emu station is ok or other picture. Any idea how to fix this? I have set up "SScaper" to "thegamesdb" but without any result

obsidianspider

@badboy1985ro You can set a maximum image size (in pixels) in the sscraper. The default is 400.

A Former User

already tried that and set the size to 600 or 1024. did not work still getting the same pixelated image

paradadf

@badboy1985ro are all your images pixelated? Or just some systems?
Are you talking about screenshots or box arts?
Are you also sure that the data is coming from ScreenScraper? What does the entry on your gamelist.xml says?

A Former User

don;t know witch one i can only see a picture on the right of the game

paradadf

@badboy1985ro what did you say? Sorry, but I don't understand what you wrote.

A Former User

thumbnails only

qix77

Sselphs scraper worked like a dream. I started it last week, left the house and shopped at Krogger's. When I came back it was done and I'd have to say it was able to find at least 75%+ of all the ROMs (which collectively for all systems I have thousands ). This worked out perfect. :)