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    [SOFT] Universal XML Scraper V2 - Easy Scrape with High Quality picture

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      Concat @screech
      last edited by Concat

      @screech
      Thank you screech! I thought I could submit through the website and I just wasn't having luck looking through all the French instructions :)

      Do you have an email address I can send them to? What if I have made my own roms...? Are those not eligible? For example, repacking .bin PS1 games to PBP files.

      Another question - how can we submit requests to add or correct games (not roms)? For example, Hot Shots 1 & 2 for PS1 is listed as Everybody's Golf as the US version, but it's actually the European version. Ironically the art there is Hot Shots Golf... I've seen other similar examples but can't remember them now.

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      • screechS
        screech
        last edited by screech

        you can post a pastebin here ;)
        Or send me an email (screech @ free.fr)
        Or come to see us on IRC ( https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/?theme=basic#Screenzone)

        To submit correction, it's easy ;) just create an account, log in, go to the game and submit new information ;) (or if it's an information you cannot submit like "duplicate", "bad rom association" leave a comment on the game page ;) )

        Don't know if you notice the flag on the upper left corner, you can choose the english one ;) 75% of the webiste is translated in english ;) )

        EDIT : And for PBP you can submit them. If you do it from "regular/common" rom it will be good ;)

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        • daeksD
          daeks @screech
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          @screech I have also a couple of missing roms, but they are all known by http://datomatic.no-intro.org/ - Do you also need them or will you add the DAT files from them in the future?

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          • screechS
            screech
            last edited by

            On wich system ? Give me the datomatic link to the dat ;) I will add it ;)

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            • daeksD
              daeks @screech
              last edited by

              @screech I have dropped you a mail :)

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              • screechS
                screech
                last edited by screech

                Sorry :( don't receive it :S (screech @ free.fr ;) )

                Edit : I receiv a Mail from Gmail saying there is a Virus in the file... so I can't even grab it :S)

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                • screechS
                  screech
                  last edited by screech

                  Bonjour, nous avons eu un petit soucis de DNS sur le Serveur de Screenscraper... Tous devrait rentrer dans l'ordre très rapidement.

                  Hello, we have a little DNS problem... Everything will be back soon.

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                  • mattrixkM
                    mattrixk @screech
                    last edited by

                    Hi @screech, I don't know if this has been asked before, but is it possible to use UXS to scrape the "System" info? I'm making a new theme and I want to get a bunch of the images for each system (console, controller, bezel, illustration, etc). I'm currently doing it one system at a time, one image at a time and it's a tad time consuming.

                    Is it possible to write a Scrape Profile that will target specific systems and download certain images? If I could get the system info too (production dates, generation, etc) it would be good, but not needed.

                    As a note, I've already written a scrape profile to download multiple images, add a suffix to each and output an xml based on them, so I have an okay grasp on how to make scrape profiles.

                    My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                    • screechS
                      screech
                      last edited by

                      Unfortunatly, you can only with MIX profil :s
                      I need to check if I can put this in the "standard" profil...
                      (So much work ^^ sorry, I'm very late on my todolist :S)

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                      • mattrixkM
                        mattrixk @screech
                        last edited by

                        @screech I'm sorry I keep loading requests for other stuff onto you.

                        My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                        • Danorak1981D
                          Danorak1981
                          last edited by

                          This looks like such a good idea, unfortunately I'm an OSX user so will never be able to use it.

                          What I've taken to doing is replacing the box art myself, but it doesn't affect me too much as I only have about 60 games loaded into Retropie-even then it's just the SNES and the (two!) N64 games I have that get the treatment. I prefer the PAL box art so hunt Google for reasonably decent quality scans, then either recreate the box myself (plenty of logo .png files to be found) or tidy up the ones that are more difficult or have complex back rounds all in Photoshop. I've only uploaded two to my Flickr but they're in the RPi album if it takes your fancy.

                          I do find the current scraper is pretty good, but doesn't always pick up some games (FZero, SNES was one I had to enter manually as it would not scrape any info at all).

                          I'd love the idea of being able to do it at my computer though, kudos to you @screech for the effort!

                          Restored SNES UK Boxart
                          RPi Modified Case to fit PowerBlock

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                            Aksen
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                            I really love this tool and screenscraper seems to have a lot of stuff i need, so I signed up for the patreon, vive la france!

                            Anyway, I've noticed that the scraping is noticeably slower than it was a while ago. My GBA folder has 900 roms in it, and UXS was reporting that it would take 2 days to scrape it. Could it be that screenscraper.fr is being overloaded...?

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                              columboscoat Banned @Aksen
                              last edited by

                              @Aksen Yip. I would say it's getting a lot more hits since @screech started promoting his scraper here.

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                                Aksen @columboscoat
                                last edited by

                                @columboscoat I paused my antivirus and it seems to be going faster. 1 hour for the GBA roms. Still waaaaaaaaaaaay slower than the sselph scraper.

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                                  columboscoat Banned @Aksen
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                                  @Danorak1981 The inbuilt scraper for ES that uses thegames.db is VERY fussy over special characters such as dashes and ampersands etc. It also has issues with names less than 3 characters...

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                                  • columboscoatC
                                    columboscoat Banned @Aksen
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                                    @Aksen Yeah, but 900 gba ROMs... really? Seems like a lot! Uxmls can be slow. It just depends on the time of day. I guess the screenscraper.fr servers are in France and it's evening time there. Just the time when things get busy on servers hosting stuff like this.

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                                    • FurlugeF
                                      Furluge
                                      last edited by Furluge

                                      I have been having some issues getting the software to pull down marquees when using the Retropie(Video) profile when scraping for final burn alpha. Nothing I seem to set for default picture gets me the marquees. Edit: It does not seem to want to pull down a7800 boxes either even though I see them on the site. :/ Does not seem to be pulling down a lot of a2600 boxes either. Still getting all the video though.

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                                        detron
                                        last edited by

                                        on the General Configuration page of UXS, what does the option
                                        "Add missing roms in XML" actually mean?

                                        I have used UXS without it checked, and games that it did not have any artwork found still showed up.

                                        though it seems straight forward, I would like to know what it really means before I re-scan some folders.

                                        thanks

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                                          paradadf @detron
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                                          @detron i believe that options just add an entry for the roms on the gamelist.xml, although without data, as no match was found.

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                                          • RionR
                                            Rion @paradadf
                                            last edited by

                                            @paradadf Yes that's right. I use it for rom translations and hacks. Then i manually add the information to that rom.

                                            FBNeo rom filtering
                                            Mame2003 Arcade Bezels
                                            Fba Arcade Bezels
                                            Fba NeoGeo Bezels

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