"Trick" Skyscraper to download different system's video?

sleve_mcdichael

I have for scummvm: Police Quest 1 - In Pursuit of the Death Angel (Amiga)/.

ScummVM (stand-alone) plays this just fine, and creates the file pq1-amiga.svm for gamelist menu.

I use Skyscraper/ScreenScraper to scrape infos and video. It does not recognize this pq1-amiga filename, but I can use aliasmap.csv with pq1-amiga;pq1 and it will be recognized as pq1. However, the video for ScummVM Police Quest 1 is for the "Floppy DOS VGA Remake" version, not the original dos/amiga versions.

I can see that on ScreenScraper.fr website, they do have the Amiga version (not scummVM-amiga but just the regular Amiga version) with the correct video. But I don't have enough "points" on ScreenScraper to download medias directly from the website.

I could try: get the Amiga version game, scrape that, copy the video from my cache, use the import module to import it for the scummvm version (and then delete the Amiga version since I don't really need it).

But, is there a better way I can "trick" Skyscraper to just fetching the Amiga version video already, without having to go through all the extra steps to import it manually?

mitu

Why do you have to import it ? Just copy the video over from the (fake) Amiga game.

sleve_mcdichael

@mitu I imported it because I want the video in my skyscraper cache, not just in the ES media folder (I suppose that's where you mean I should copy it to?) Videos in the media folder are symlinks back to cache already, to save much filespace.

Lolonois

Very special case. But you can save the import part. However, some manual steps are required:

Copy the pq1-amiga.svm to the ~/RetroPie/roms/amiga/ folder.

Find the Amiga video (I guess you already did that).

e.g, https://www.screenscraper.fr/gameinfos.php?gameid=34415&action=onglet&zone=gameinfosmedias

Navigate to the ROM/ISOs latch and pick a checksum and use it in the query parameter.

Run Skyscraper -p amiga -d /tmp --flags videos -s screenscraper --query="md5=2c4827513db0e45eed77d20d290fa17d" ~/RetroPie/roms/amiga/pq1-amiga.svm.

Find the video for "Police Quest" from screenscraper in the scummvm Skyscraper DB file, usually ~/.skyscraper/cache/scummvm/db.xml (type="video" source="screenscraper" with the matching resource id for Policy Quest). Note the resource id.

Copy the amiga video into the scummvm cache, e.g.:

cp /tmp/videos/screenscraper/494148112002ee474500cc10cbd212b1dedc5bd0.mp4 ~/.skyscraper/cache/scummvm/videos/<just-noted-resource-id>.mp4

It could be that the resource id is identical between Amiga and ScummVM, as the Skyscraper resource id is calculated from the filename and not from the file content for *.svm files. I did not verify this, but I assume it will be the case.