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    MAME Gamelist - Update/scrape text (desc, players) only?

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    • hoodleH
      hoodle
      last edited by

      Wondering if anyone can help as I've been Googling this/searching the forums since last night, looking for a solution!

      With regards to MAME and the gamelist.xml file, I had tried using the sselph scraper with results that weren't fantastic (but I've found it to be a brilliant scraper for consoles). So I essentially built an XML file using EmuMovies' brilliant Sync tool for all media.

      The only issue I have now is, although every single game has perfect artwork, the XML has no metadata (number of players, description etc.).

      Is there anyway I can scrape these games to update the XML with fields that don't currently exist?

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      • RionR
        Rion @hoodle
        last edited by

        @hoodle sselph scraper should be updated to support arcade italia's Mame DB. Are you sure you used the right search parameters when you scanned your Mame folder?

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

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        • hoodleH
          hoodle @Rion
          last edited by

          @rion I launched sselph through retropie_setup.sh (to avoid having to go through flags in terminal), and everything seemed to be set up correctly (Italia Mame DB was the DB I had selected)

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          • RionR
            Rion
            last edited by

            More info here

            Latest release here

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

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