Skyscraper now officially part of RetroPie, please test

goobatroopa

Used Skyscraper today for the first time. Great piece of software and worked like a charm. Thanks @muldjord

muldjord

@goobatroopa Awesome, thanks! Glad you like it :)

ohmycommodore

@muldjord
"Remember to quit Emulationstation before using Skyscraper"... is this still essential? If so, what is the command to run Skyscraper from terminal? I just have a couple of empty systems to scrape and thought I should check first on the best approach.

goobatroopa

@ohmycommodore sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh
And then choose experimental

Instructions in the first post of this thread.

ohmycommodore

Thanks, was just wondering whether there's a different command for running it, vs installing it. I already have it installed from a while back. Perhaps it's the same command and that's just not stated up there.

mitu

@ohmycommodore said in Skyscraper now officially part of RetroPie, please test:

Perhaps it's the same command and that's just not stated up there.

"Up there" - where ?

ohmycommodore

@mitu Ah sorry, first post, up at the top I meant.

mitu

@ohmycommodore Did you read the Wiki page ? It's stated in there:

If you wish to run it from the command line, for more advanced options and parameters, you can find it installed in /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper.

ohmycommodore

Of course, was just looking for clarification as I don't terminal too much, and there's a warning about mixing methods of running this thing. I also haven't used it since early on, and there were recent changes. Thanks.

goobatroopa

@ohmycommodore I ran it from the terminal after exiting ES. I know it can be installed whilst ES is running but I think you have to scrape without ES running.

mitu

@ohmycommodore I don't understand - you can run it through the GUI, which ultimately runs the CLI with some parameters pre-set. Each setting in the GUI has a Help option which shows which CLI parameter is used for that option. So ultimately running it through the GUI is the same think as running it from the command line - as stated, the command line has more options than what is exposed through the GUI.
If you're not comfortable with the CLI, then I suggest you use the GUI and give it a try.

Ronoh55

Working great for me so far. I did have a small issue where I had games in folders and it found them but refused to write a gameslist.xml. It was easily fixed for me because ES has the functionality now that made me use folders to begin with (genre filtering) and I just removed everything from folders.

One thing I'd like to see in the GUI though is scraping images by region. Default seems to be EU and I'd love to scrape US without going to command line.
Or did I miss a setting?

mitu

@Ronoh55 There is no default for region set from the GUI, however you can edit the .ini file and set your preferred region there.

muldjord

@mitu An issue has been reported at the Skyscraper github which relates to the script and not Skyscraper itself. If a user has all of their files in subfolders inside a platform folder such as /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/subfolder/[all files here] the script exits without scraping the subfolder. To make this work the user had to have at least one file in the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro folder for the script to run Skyscraper.

Ronoh55

MobyGames is not in the gui but is on the Github as an option to scrape from. It is still an option correct? Only through CLI for now?

mitu

@muldjord I'll take a look, looks like a script issue.

mitu

@Ronoh55 Yes, it's not in the GUI, since it's not suitable for bulk scraping due to the low number of allowed scrapes (25 I think).

Ronoh55

Ah, that makes sense. Didn't know it has such a small limit

muldjord

@Ronoh55 Yes, the mobygames module is very limited and should only ever be used to scrape single roms. So that makes it unusable in the GUI. That's the reason for the removal. It can still be used on command line though and works well.

mitu

@muldjord Here's a draft for the new UI. I removed the Localdb as a scraping source and added the new ESGamelist local source.

There is now an explicit option to generate the gamelist(s) from the menu

When chosen, you'll be asked to choose which systems you want to include in the gamelist generation (similar to 'Scrape chosen systems'). I'm not so sure about renaming 'Scrape' to 'Gather', and 'Download' doesn't seem appropriate (it's not only downloading artwork, it's also information retrieval). I'm open to ideas :).

I think I'll re-arrange the menu, so that any configuration options are below the actions (Scrape/Scrape/Generate and then the rest of the options).