Skyscraper - Not scraped Games

annomatik

Hi! Skyscraper scraps many games for me, but some it does not scrap are quite common which I find odd. E.g. Chaos Engine and Lemmings.

Here's the list of some of the currently not scraped games I'm experiencing with Skyscraper:

Amiga

AlienBreed1_v2.3a_0998.lha (2 + 3D scrap fine)
"Bad Ninjas (Homebrew 2018).adf"
Cadaver&CadaverThePayoff_v2.2_0900.lha
ChaosEngine1_v1.2_AGA_1324.lha
ChaosEngine2_v2.1_AGA_0173.lha
CrazyCars1_v1.2.lha
CrazyCars2_v1.1_0311.lha
CrazyCars3_v2.1.lha
DefenderOfTheCrown_v3.1_0317.lha
DeluxePacMan_v1.0_AGA.lha
EyeOfTheBeholder1_v1.5_0116.lha
EyeOfTheBeholder2_v1.1_0834.lha
GhostsNGoblins_v1.2.lha
GhoulsNGhosts_v1.0_2252.lha
Gobliiins1_v1.3_0065.lha
Gobliins2_v1.4_0185.lha (Goblins3 scraps fine)
GreatGianaSisters_v1.6_2945.lha
"Inviyya (Homebrew Demo 2018).adf"
ItCameFromTheDesert1_v2.0_0014.lha
ItCameFromTheDesert2_v2.0.lha
JamesPond1_v2.1.lha
JamesPond2_v2.0_AGA_1354.lha
JamesPond3_v1.0_AGA_0688.lha
"Lemmings 3 AGA (1 of 4).adf"
Lemmings1_v1.5_Files_2089.lha (Lemmings 2 scraps fine)
Llamatron_v1.1_1MB.lha
Lotus1_v1.1_0774.lha
Lotus2_v1.11_0497.lha (Lotus 3 scraps fine)
MegaLoMania_v1.7_0272.lha
MontyPythonsFlyingCircus_v1.3_0273.lha
Nebulus1_v1.3_0361.lha (Nebulus 2 scraps fine)
"Operation Lemming v1.2.adf"
Populous1&DataDisks_v1.1_0069&1217.lha
Populous2&ChallengeGames_v1.3_0079.lha
ProjectX1_v1.3_0886.lha
ProjectX2_v1.3_0289.lha
ProjectXSE_v1.5_0927.lha
RType1_v1.4.1_0940.lha (RType 2 scraps fine)
SensibleTrainSpotting_v1.0.lha
ShadowOfTheBeast1_v2.2_1357.lha
ShadowOfTheBeast2_v1.3a_1359.lha
ShadowOfTheBeast3_v1.6_0016.lha
Speedball1_v2.0_0581.lha (Speedball 2 scraps fine)
SuperMethaneBros_v1.3.lha
TitusTheFox_v2.0_0226.lha
Turrican1_v2.0_0092.lha ( Turrican 2 + 3 scrap fine)
Xenon1_v1.2_0399.lha (Xenon 2 scraps fine)
"Zerosphere (Homebrew 2015).adf"

NES

"Balloon Fight (USA) 2P.nes"
"Banana Prince (GER).nes"
"Castlevania 2 (USA).nes" (Castlevania 1 scraps fine)
"Donkey Kong Jr. (World).nes" (Donkey Kong scraps fine)
"Galaga (USA).nes"
"Ninja Gaiden 1 (USA).nes"
"SCAT (USA) 2P.nes"
"StarTropics 1 (USA).nes"
"Tetris (Nintendo).nes" (Tetris (Tengen) scraps fine)

mitu

You should try reporting your questions to the main Skyscraper topic in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11826/.

annomatik

@mitu Thanks, I thought that it gets lost there. But will do.

mitu

@annomatik @muldjord (Skyscraper's author) is pretty active on that topic, why would it get lost ?

annomatik

Well, for me it's easier to follow one topic in one thread :-) The main Skyscraper topic is full of different topics.

Also, apparently, I'm only allowed to write something every 2 minutes? I seem to be too fast for this forum. :-)

mitu

@annomatik said in Skyscraper - Not scraped Games:

Also, apparently, I'm only allowed to write something every 2 minutes? I seem to be too fast for this forum. :-)

I haven't stumbled upon this feature, but I for one welcome it !

mitu

What source of scraping are you using ?
I tested some of your NES titles and some of them work if you're using TheGamesDB - because it searches by name only. But some of the names are awkward - Castlevania 2 is in fact Castlevania II or StarTropics 1 is StarTropics the ones that have 2P at the end are not going to be recognized, some of them will work if you lower the 'Match percentage' (i.e. the Banana Prince for instance I had to use -m 30 to be found). If you're using ScreenScraper as source, I think you can use the hash to search the ROM - are you using standard (i.e. No-Intro or ToSec) ROMs ?

You can check the game on ScreenScraper to see what names/ROM names/Hashes are associates with it. For instance, you could see what ROM names are linked to S.C.A.T. .

annomatik

Well, yes, that's my "special" naming and that's why I prefer using the file-names as oposed the scraped-names (=Skyscraper setting). I like the "unified look" of a first part of a game having "1" and the second part of a game having a "2" -- this usually also improves sorting of games, Part 1 comes first, Part 2 comes second, etc.. Also, it usually helps to know at one glance, if a game is supporting multiplayer, that's why I'm adding the "2P" or the "4P" at the end of a game.

Interestingly enough, for some games, this doesn't seem to matter, for others it does.

Which brings me to my other question... How do I start an update? with "skyscraper -p nes", will it use all the scrapers? Or what happens there? Do I need to set some sort of aliases somewhere to keep my file-naming convention?

mitu

@annomatik Have you read the Skyscraper documentation ?

annomatik

I skipped through it :-) Didn't fully understand it, to be honest.