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NastyButtler322

I got a romset with almost 4,000 games yeresterday, and set the scraper to do its thing without the "user decides on conflicts" set to "on". I guess the scraper is what creates the metadata for each game. Well there were probably a lot of conflicts because it gave several games the same title in the metadata, even though a lot of those are not the name of the files.

I've been going one-by-one, typing the game titles according to the filename I see after starting each game. "Super Mario All Stars + Super Mario World" is the section I've been renaming for about 20 minutes now lol.

Is there simpler way to do this without grinding through them? lol I did it to get some box art, which I didn't get because I guess THEGAMESDB is doing maintenance or something.

jonnykesh

@nastybuttler322 use sselph scraper or universal xml scraper. The built in scraper is awful and thegamesdb seems to be down more than up these days.

NastyButtler322

@jonnykesh Ahh thank you. Do you know the path that this XML script should be inserted?

meleu

@nastybuttler322 I suggest you the use of sselph scraper. You can find more info about it here: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/#steven-selphs-scraper

NastyButtler322

@meleu Thank you. I'll check that out. I did take an XML course over the summer, and want to play around with it more too though. I haven't touched anything with the language since I took the course, it was surprisingly more difficult than C++ for me, which I haven't stopped playing with lol

Aphex

I was unaware of Sselph Scraper back then. I did my entire collection through the built-in Thegamesdb. It's almost okay with a few issues:

I don't know about other scrapers but it took a great deal of time for something around 2000 games (around 3 or 4 hours).
Thegamesdb doesn't always have/recognize localized version of a rom. (eg: Starwing whic is the EU release of Starfox, Blackhawk for Blackthorne, Super Pang for Buster Bros., or Super SWIV for FirePower 2000...). Those i had to add manually in the gamelist.xml files and get a cover image myself. Around a hundred for 2000 games.
The "user decides on conflicts" is a bit broken, since it prompts you even if it finds the right game without any other entry, so i obviously turned it "OFF". I then would deal with the missing ones or wrong ones.
The wrong ones are often due to sequels with numbers, roman numbers or subtitles like "Revenge" or "XXX : And the curse of something something". For each of those i had edit the data in the retropie menu and redo the scrap. It would prompt you with all the version it finds and you select the right episode or version.

To sum it up,
the built-in scraper is okay but will often requires you to correct what it misses (which was around 1 miss out of 20). And if you have a LOT of games, it can take up to an entire day to fix the mistakes manually.

If i ever reinstall the system entirely, i will definitely give Sselph scraper a try.

NastyButtler322

@aphex Most of the games it labeled the same in my SNES folder aren't even related to the series lol.