Skyscraper is back! (v3.13)

abj

I runned the Skyscraper from the terminal window (i had exit from ES with F4) and without using the RetroPie-Setup dialog, just to get familiar with the commands for the upcoming v.3.11 .

Then i scrape from the command line with

Skyscraper -p psx -s screenscraper
Skyscraper -p psx

I don't have the previous config.ini file, because it was a fresh install of RetroPie and Skyscraper (Branch 3.10.4).

Thanks, i modify the entrys and everything is fine. I just reported it just in case that is a bug. Thanks for everything!

sleve_mcdichael

@abj said in Skyscraper is back! (v3.11):

Thanks, i modify the entrys and everything is fine. I just reported it just in case that is a bug.

(Skyscraper default has always been to use the ROM folder for gamelists and media. Only the RP-Setup dialog (or CLI option, or manual edit config.ini) redirects it to RetroPie configs area instead.)

abj

@sleve_mcdichael This is the reason then, because the previous times i was using the gui. Thanks!

abj

Hello, it's me again (sorry :P).

I was trying to scrape my neogeocd games that i have into neogeo folder from the terminal window, without the use of RetroPie-Setup Gui.
The command i run was :

Skyscraper -p neogeo -s screenscraper

The command run but i didn't saw any metadata, it was like i didn't have roms in the folder.

I check the peas.json file and it looks that something is missing from the formats section:

},
    "neogeo": {
        "aliases": [
            "arcade",
            "neo geo",
            "neo geo aes",
            "neo geo cd",
            "neo geo mvs",
            "neo-geo",
            "neo-geo cd"
        ],
        "formats": [],
        "scrapers": [
            "arcadedb",
            "openretro",
            "screenscraper"
        ]
    },

sleve_mcdichael

@abj I'm not sure but you could try adding some "formats"? So:

        "formats": [],

...becomes:

        "formats": [
            "*.chd",
            "*.cue",
            "*.fba",
            "*.iso"
        ],

(NeoGeo formats from https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/platforms.cfg#L146, not include "*.zip", "*.7z" as none other systems include these either, so I suppose they are "hardwired" somewhere else.)

abj

@sleve_mcdichael

Thanks, this fix it!

Lolonois

if the option extension is unset (default) then these extensions are automatically used as base *.7z *.ml *.zip by Skyscraper.

Another option is to add the wanted extensions with addExtensions, these get appended to the base extensions.

Eventually the extensions from peas.json / formats are added also to the list of extensions.

Lolonois

Version 3.12.0 is out.

Implementing a batch of community suggestions, all details here

Thank you all and happy scraping!

Edit: Thanks, @mitu for spotting the wrong URL, corrected now. Seems I copied from the wrong browser tab yesterday.

mitu

@Lolonois said in Skyscraper is back! (v3.12):

Implementing a batch of community suggestions, all details here

Hm, here points to localhost, probably should be https://gemba.github.io/skyscraper/CHANGELOG/#version-3120-2024-07-01 ?

Lolonois

3.13.0 is out.

Mainly a maintenance release, removed flags and options marked deprecated since version 3.7.0 (almost three years ago).
You may now also maintain local changes to the supported platforms in a separate file called peas_local.json. Any platform entry from peas_local.json with the same platform name as in peas.json takes precedence.
Added the platform Vircon32 (@Vircon32 ).
Many smaller fixes and improvements.

https://github.com/Gemba/skyscraper/releases/tag/3.13.0

Vircon32

@Lolonois that's great! Thank you for the addition.

Good timing too. Recently several Vircon32 games have been added to some scraping sites, like Screenscaper and IGDB.