@luca Normally by hash, name or/and platform/extension

@mediamogul brilliant, i will give it a try, thanks,

@StormJH1 Hi! Yeah, it was the most recent update. I'm pretty sure I was connected to the internet, and even if I wasn't, the scraper shouldn't crash emulationstation like it is right now. :P I'm just glad sselph's works, but I still find it strange the scraping functions inside ES crash it completely.

Thanks @sselph - it took a while, but I added a feature request over on Github:
https://github.com/sselph/scraper/issues/167

@mattrixk

in my nightlife, I'm asleep.

Ralph

@valerino Looking forward to try this one, and help on everything that I can!

Thx

@rowjoo Universal xml scraper. It uses a pc to scrape then automatically transfers the info to the Pi.

I guess thegamesdb.net have done some upgrades etc.

@retrolove
Since I'm using the complete xml from the inbuilt scraper (not sselphs), I just replace the images afterwards with the one UXS creates. Then I use the RetroPie Metadata Editor to manually check the xml and add/fix the data.
I don't know of any easy way to merge the data from different sources.

WOW!!! Thank you!

@blockaboots Same as Linux:

$ mamescraper -help
Usage: mamescraper [options]

scrap mame games information and images from 'mame.bigode.net' or
'adb.arcadeitalia.net'

Options:
--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-a, --append scrap only missing roms from output file and append it
to the file (default: disabled)
-d ROMS_DIR directory containing the games (default: current
directory)
-e IMAGES_DIR_NAME directory name to download the images (default: images)
-f FORMAT file format of the games: 'zip' or '7z' (default: zip)
-i IMAGES images type: 'mixed', 'title' or 'flyer' - mixed will
download a flyer and fallback to title if a flyer is not
found (default: mixed)
-o OUTPUT_FILE the xml file that will be created (default:
gamelist.xml)
-s SOURCE information and images source: 'bigode' or 'adb'
(default: bigode)
-w WORKERS number of workers threads to use (default: 5)

Github has this information and some useful use cases.

@FarHarborPatrol Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

I think this has to do with thegamesdb being very slow, or even down at times. Specially the last day. I can't even scrape anything without it saying it now, even with Selph's. There are other options on Selph's, but not inside emulationstation.

@herb_fargus theres worse things going on in the world opposed to copyright infringement lets be honest here :)

Thank you so much! Been waiting for this a long time since it was first proposed here Scraper for Mame and Mess games and here Mame db mirror #115

@celly

However when I try to scrape Genesis, it only returns with Mega Drive art.

I've heard that if you edit your es_systems.cfg and change <platform>megadrive</platform> to <platform>genesis</platform> it will scrape Genesis art instead of Megadrive. I haven't tested this so please let us know if this works.

@screech
Ran some N64 roms and have five that won't scrap. Ran it two different times with your new software.

http://pastebin.com/QYYApU0f