Option in the built in Scraper, to save to USB ROM directory

icvaalmall84

Why is there no option, to save all you scarper artwork with the built in scarper to your USB drive. I know steven selph's scraper does this. It's just a headache when steven selph's scraper, scraps games example an Atari game, with ps2 game image. I prefer the simplicity of the built in Scraper, and that is able pause on each game to confirm, it's the right image, and info.

muldjord

I don't think the built-in scraper can do this. I'm not sure if you're aware of the other scrapers available. There's both Skyscraper, UXS and skraper.net. I know for a fact that Skyscraper can do what you are looking for with the '-o' and '-g' command line options.

Skyscraper and installation instructions can be found here: https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper

If you choose to use it, I would recommend reading the documentation on 'simple mode'. Running it in that mode will ask you a bunch of questions, one of which is where you wish to save the media. For that question, just paste in the full USB path you want it to use.

Skyscraper works by first scraping any given platform with a bunch of different web sources. So you'll notice that it runs through your roms several times. When it's done, it will combine all of the data it has gathered into the most complete results for each rom. Be aware though that it caches all data in the '[homedir]/.skyscraper/dbs' folder, so it will accumulate a lot of data that is not stored on your USB drive over time. When you're done scraping you can delete the '[homedir]/.skyscraper/dbs' folder though if you wish, the gamelists and media it has made for you won't be deleted. But if you later decide to rescrape a platform it will start all over if the cached data is missing.

icvaalmall84

@muldjord, thank you for you reply. I really appreciate it. It's gonna really help me out thanks alot

Clyde

@icvaalmall84 You also could mount the USB folder(s) to the images folder in the resp. roms folder.

sudo mount --bind /media/usb0/arcade/images /home/pi/Retropie/roms/arcade/images

This will mount /media/usb0/arcade/images in /home/pi/Retropie/roms/arcade/images, so any images saved in the latter will actually end up in the former. Note that this mount is temporary and won't survive a system restart. But you can use it to test this setup. To make it permanent, you'll have add this line to the file /etc/fstab:

/media/usb0/arcade/images /home/pi/Retropie/roms/arcade/images none bind,bg 0 0

Be sure to make a backup of it beforehand, as a messed-up fstab will break your system!

You can unmount the folder anytime with one of the following commands, as long as no other program has any file or folder open in one of its subfolders.

sudo umount /media/usb0/arcade/images  
sudo umount /home/pi/Retropie/roms/arcade/images
# umount works on both "ends" of the mount

icvaalmall84

@clyde thank you guys, you really assisted me. Appreciate all.