@sleve_mcdichael - ah thanks for the info! Last time I set up a pi system (3b) was about 6 years ago so I'm out of touch :)

@Lolonois - thanks for replying so quickly. I was reading the MobyGames section on https://gemba.github.io/skyscraper/SCRAPINGMODULES/ and it sounded like it could be something cool, but maybe i'm trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. So far screenscraper, openretro, etc are covering things really well. I might look into it more and report back if there is anything worthwhile there. Cheers!

@geese-howard ok thanks, cause it's not on the webpage, but other service like retropie are in.

@Scott-Skaife said in System Control API:

One of the thing that has always broken the illusion of emulating computers is the need to break out of the emulated environment to swap disks. Being able to do this from a phone app would be a huge deal.

this seems more immersion-breaking than using the retroarch GUI!

that said, retroarch itself does have various network commands, so i believe you could achieve your disk change example with a simple phone app on the same network: https://docs.libretro.com/development/retroarch/network-control-interface/

@thelostsoul said in Is there a way to manually update thegamesdb.net API in sselph scraper? Or, what else scrapes videos?:

Please allow me this.
@njscorpio said in Is there a way to manually update thegamesdb.net API in sselph scraper? Or, what else scrapes videos?:

Skyscraper has been very effective.

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Love it!

@mitu oh wow, never thought about something like that!
Thank Mitu, i will have patience next time! 😊