@BJRetro said in PSP scraping?:

@mitu I think he is asking if there is any way to somehow extract the menu image file, music file, etc.from the .iso or original PSP game that was “baked into” the game data itself for display on the original PSP, and then use those (extracted) files in EmulationStation.

Yes that is correct.

Going online to scrape games for other systems is good.

I don't want it to go online for the PSP. I want it to extract the baked in menu data from the game itself.

If nobody's written a script for that, then that might be a good utility for me to write. But before I go start typing a bunch of Python (seems like the appropriate tool for this) I want to make sure nobody else has already done it.

I finally got it!!!

As a matter of self-defense, I run a pi-hole as my DNS server. Well, after reading another post referencing turning off the firewall, it gave me the idea to bypass my pi-hole. Once I did that, it was working as it should.

I know the author has abandoned this program, but I really wish he'd come back and put some better error messages in it. Line 26511 doesn't help me. "Hey, I can't get out" would have helped me a great deal and saved me a lot of time and aggravation

@Amishgamer
I just tested it again, with a few different systems, It does kind of squish the box, especially segacd, maybe a 640x640 square would be better. I'm sorry I'm not very good at this artwork.xml, I cant find a way around skyscrapers, compositing the boxart, even though all that it needs is for "cover" to be redirected to "screenshot". Did you try the built-in scraper?

@joeyjojo Probably file shares, just like you'd transfer your ROMs.

@sunwind Search for ARRM, this should get you started.

@che_don_john Skyscraper can use TheGamesDB since it doesn't rely on the legacy API. I don't know if SScraper has that.
I don't think there are any issues - in Skyscraper at least - with Screenscraper.fr or OpenVGDB.
If you have specific examples - ROM names and checksums - where the entries are in the scraping site, but not found by Skyscraper, then please report them also in the Skyscraper topic.

@Bravenstein
How did you update without a network connection?

@carcayu I don't know if it supports something like this.

@mitu I went through the process of exiting emulation station and installing the scraper. I selected the gameand watch folder and attempted to scrape the games. It said games have been scraped but when I went back to emulation station there were no images for them. I don't know if it just did't find images or if somehow they didn't stay. I read the part about doing your own scraping. I am not sure how to do this as the instructions are a bit confusing and I am new to this sort of thing.

Thanks a lot mitu, it sounds pretty interesting, I will investigate it.

By the way, paradadf, I have just try skraper and It detects a lot more roms! It's incredible (and very easy to use, using the windows program). Maybe I will have to manually scrapping only few roms. Thanks a lot!

@melbmatt50 You are limited by the romset. AdvanceMAME may have the other games you require. Which games are you wishing to run? Post here and people can tell you what they use.

@87th-e You should get the latest Emulationstation for Windows and see if the problem is solved.

Thanks blackshadow for your reply. I am using the tronkyfran theme, and the raspberry Pi 3b standard. My plan was to make the boxart at a high res, cause I am using the boxart as the screensaver.

I scraped again one full gamelist, at 1200 x 768 and that worked very well in the game list, no lag, and the screensaver boxart now doesn't look stretched or pixilated at full screen.

Hope this might help someone in future, if they planning to use boxart as the screensaver.

Thanks blackshadow all the best

Please fill in the information asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first about your system.

@urko948 The roms / zip files shouldn't be renamed. Mame expects them with specific names, because in the emulator is a database of filenames and other informations. Thats why you need a specific romset for a specific Mame version btw. If you rename anything, then you should do this within the gamelist.xml or elsewhere related. So, you should bring back the original state of roms with original names. Then remove the non working gamelist.xml by moving the file to different place for later analysis.

And then? I don't know. :D Maybe upload the faulty gamelist.xml, so we can check it and maybe see something unusual going on.

You have to scrape for Megadrive.

Never heard about ssleph, but if you're talking about Steven Selph's scraper, have you checked if it contains support for this system ?

Thanks, that's exactly what I ended up doing.

I had hesitated with UXS for a while because I never thought I could get it to work.. turns out it was just generating the xml in a directory/folder I wasn't expecting.

Thanks