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    Pico-8 Screenshots/Video Snaps

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    • R
      Retro Arcade Fan
      last edited by

      Hey everyone,

      Running RP 4.8.2 and Emulation Station version 2.11.0RP. My own custom image.

      Has anyone had any success scraping Pico-8? When I scrape with either Thegamesdb or Screenscraper neither has been successful. One gives me all the wrong screen shots. The other goes through the process and everything's blank. Not sure if it violates policy (not asking for roms), but I've even searched for video snaps or screen shots online to download separately with no luck. Maybe they just don't exist for Pico-8?

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Only Screenscraper has support for Pico8 games (example), but not all of them may have a video/screenshot/etc. associated. EmulationStation will download the images only, it has no video support.

        How did you created the system for Pico8 ? What's the platform you've set for it ?

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          Retro Arcade Fan @mitu
          last edited by

          @mitu Here's the setup. I also noticed there's no gamelist file in the rom folder. I would think scraping would have created one?

          <system>
          <name>pico8</name>
          <fullname>PICO-8</fullname>
          <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8</path>
          <extension>.sh .p8 .png .SH .P8 .PNG</extension>
          <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS pico8 %ROM%</command>
          <platform>pico8</platform>
          <theme>pico8</theme>
          </system>

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator
            last edited by

            The platform name is correct, so scraping should get some results when using ScreenScraper as the source. If you don't, then add more info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, and specify which games you tried scraping.

            I also noticed there's no gamelist file in the rom folder. I would think scraping would have created one?

            The gamelist is created by EmulationStation regardless of any scraping operation. By default is not in the roms' folder.

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