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

[KillerQ]

Is XML down at the moment?

[EctoOne]

@KillerQ The website is up but the CPU load is almost at 80% according to the stats on the site.

Edit: When it jumped over 80% it disabled the scrape function for unregistered users

[FlyingTomahawk]

Is there any way to get rid of the green, red and blue squares from the FoolScreen (Arcade) images?

The squares within the red circle.

[EctoOne]

@FlyingTomahawk Make a backup of FoolScreen (Arcade).zip in the Mix folder, Unzip it, open the config.xml in a text editor, delete the last 3 elements, zip all files, make sure it still has the FoolScreen (Arcade).zip name, put it back in the Mix folder, select another mix profil in UXS, select FoolFoolScreen (Arcade) again, scrape.

I just took a quick look, but that should work. If not i will look again

Edit: Or try this. its the same file with a renamed profil. Link Just put it in the Mix folder and select it in UXS.

[FlyingTomahawk]

@EctoOne

It worked like a charm! Thank you!
This is getting better and better. Not only can you get very nice MIX images but you can edit those like you would edit a theme.

[Dochartaigh]

Several people have mentioned running this on their PC (with the ROMs on their PC) to speed up the process - then editing the gamelist XML files with the proper path for the Pi.

Where would the gamelist XML files be on your PC then? I'm assuming that when the Universal XML Scraper scrapes off the Pi directly it's changing the XML files in /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists (and of course that directory isn't going to exist on my PC). - So what is your process to make this work (hopefully quicker!)?

[FlyingTomahawk]

@Dochartaigh

I personally installed EmulationStation on my PC and created the exact same folder structure as on my RPi.
All the roms are the same on my PC as they are on my RPi.
This is not necessary but it makes things a bit easier to keep overview later.
I then define the paths for roms, images and gamelists under Configuration -> Path configuration.
I scrape one system after the other so I redefine the paths every time for each system before scrapping.

You can create any folder structure and define the paths for roms, images and gamelist to whatever you like and helps you to keep overview.

[paradadf]

@Dochartaigh isn't there a profil called "roms path" or something? IMO that's the best location for the gamelist and images folder, next to your roms. That's also the location of the data when you use sselph scraper.

[screech]

Hi guys, sorry, I were a little bit busy these last time... Not so much Time on UXS...

@Jeck11 : It's unfortunatly false positive. The language I use (Autoit) is mainly detected as malicious. I had contactated many AV editor to say it's a false positive. Lot's of them have answer and it's ok... But some haven't answer (yet ?) like Microsoft :S .

@Dukafleed Yep, it's in a very long todo list ^^ you can try : https://github.com/Universal-Rom-Tools/Universal-XML-Editor but it's "dedicated" to recalbox, maybe it works on retropie (but it's an early Beta ^^)

@BORIStheBLADE1 and others, sorry for the "lost connection" to the DB... When server is very "high" on CPU Use, it temporary "cut" the access to none register user... Try to Register to Screenscraper ;) maybe it can help .

@hooperre You are right... Must add a save function to the original XML.
For the Donkey Kong File. I think there is a probleme with the ' in the name... Need to check that...

@FlyingTomahawk near 7h for 820 roms is pretty...long... Normally it can handle much more roms (someone scrape more than 6000 Amiga roms with success ;) ) Try to register and submit some proposition on www.screenscraper.fr to get some extra thread ;) it will be faster ;)

@Dochartaigh 8+ hours for a NES romset with your config and 5 threads is pretty weird... normally a rom is scraped between 7 and 30s (depending on Server load and you config...)
(FYI : Thread are simultaneous scrape engine number... The main EXE send to X Engine the API return to manage it and download picture, create the mix, generate a part of the final XML. So normally, except if the server is very loaded, it must go pretty fast...)

@Paradadf thank you very much taking the UXS support when I'm not here ^^. And you are right... Prefere the "Roms path" profile when you scrape on you PC... It put the downloaded_image folder and gamelist.xml directly in the roms folder ;)

[EctoOne]

@screech said in [SOFT] Universal XML Scraper V2 - Easy Scrape with High Quality picture:

@hooperre You are right... Must add a save function to the original XML.
For the Donkey Kong File. I think there is a probleme with the ' in the name... Need to check that...

I noticed that last night too. Tried to scrape Chip's Challenge and whatever i tried to name it, it couldn't find it. Also there was some problem with names that have multiple . in them. Like B.A.T. or P. P. Hammer.. I got those working by accidentally renaming them to NAME.ipf.zip

[screech]

Normally, the "good" process is to identify your rom with CRC... Filename is just a "fallback" feature to scrape as much as it can ;) And so it's not very "reliable"...

[FlyingTomahawk]

@screech
Thanks for your reply.
Today it was faster, lot faster than yesterday. I have an account at screenscraper.fr but I haven't contributed ($$) anything yet.
Is it possible to run the scrape again but let it only scrape the roms from the missing list?

[screech]

Very nice ;)
FYI : $$ donation aren't necessary ;) just contribut to the DB is enough to grant you several Thread ;)
(We are missing lot's of sinopsys or media you can submit ;) )

And of course you can just "add" the missing rom when you crape ;) in General menu, look at the scrape mode and select "update" ;)

[EctoOne]

@screech yeah i know, but I was scraping custom amiga uae files, so no hashes for me :)

[screech]

@EctoOne try this :
https://github.com/Universal-Rom-Tools/Universal-XML-Scraper/wiki/Rom-Missing-on-Screenscraper

Pass your uae file in F-CRC and send them to me ;) if they are well named, they will be autoassociated to there legitimate game ;) so you can scrape directly with CRC ;)

[hooperre]

@screech Thanks for this man. It's an amazing tool and you've enhanced my RetroPie experience greatly. So thank you.

Would creating a file directly from a URL to the screenscraper.fr database be difficult to incorporate for ROMs that don't pull easily? Sorry if this is a... novice question.

[screech]

@hooperre sorry, my english must be too bad ^^ I don't understand your question :p

[hooperre]

@screech I was wondering if you could add something that will make a MIX image simply by pasting a link to the ROM in the DB.

For example, for Donkey Kong 3, I would just paste "https://www.screenscraper.fr/gameinfos.php?plateforme=4&gameid=2181" into the XML Scraper and it would output the MIX image for that game.

[screech]

unfortunatly, it's actually impossible...

To create a MIX, I need to catch the Media.
To Catch the Media, I need to have an API response from the DB.
To have an API response from the DB, I need to ask the API with a CRC32, MD5, SHA1, or Filename...

I can't with the Game ID...

But I can ask the Screenscraper boss to add this to the API ;) but I think it's not for tomorrow ;) (he is pretty busy right now ^^)

[EctoOne]

@screech I don't think that would help in this case. UAE are just text config files and even with the automatic ways to create them i think they would be different from system to system. I mean it uses a template to create them and after that it already makes automatic changes to the controller name when you start them.. It was easier to batch rename them.