Can't get some ROMS scraping the correct game (using Skyscraper)

Jezza

I am trying to scrape my streetfighter games and Skyscraper is giving the wrong ones in some cases.

eg. Street Fighter 2 Champions edition when it should be Street Fighter 2 Hyper Fighting
and
Street Fighter Alpha when it should be Street Fighter Zero

how can I resolve this??
Would be happy to find the games and individually download then rename and put in the correct folders

I could just use my own pics but I am really impressed with what Skyscraper is doing with the pics by putting the boxart in front

George Spiggott

I have this problem with the arcade version of Robocop which scrapes as Robocop 2.

sirhenrythe5th

@Jezza said in Skyscraper scraping wrong thing:

I could just use my own pics but I am really impressed with what Skyscraper is doing with the pics by putting the boxart in front

I am so crazy that i indeed searched for own pictures/artwork for all my games, took years of course :D
I also used the inbuilt scraper in advance to get the metadata and the picture-path, but was never satisfied with the results of the artworks scrapers gave me.

So if you like the pictures of scyscraper with the box in the front etc.: it is also possible to search just for these pics (searchengine -> [Name of the game] + scyscraper).
I prefer those from "Hyperspin" :D
But you will be surprised what beautiful pictures do exist for games / cases / artwork.
Even if you search for "products" you will find fantastic pictures made by eBay-sellers who seem to be hobby-photographs ;)
Professional Background, perfect lightning, great point of view - very impressive and makes your image/setup even more individual.

mitu

@Jezza said in Skyscraper scraping wrong thing:

eg. Street Fighter 2 Champions edition when it should be Street Fighter 2 Hyper Fighting
and
Street Fighter Alpha when it should be Street Fighter Zero

What are the names of the ROMs and what system is this ? Arcade ? What scraping source are you using ?

Jezza

mame-libretro

sf2t
sfzj
ssf2xj
sfz2aa
sfz3j

jthomas5150

@sirhenrythe5th Hi, could you explain how you get the picture with the boxart in the front etc? I also have issues with a few games being wrong and/or blank screenshots.

mitu

@Jezza This is not a Skyscraper issue, it's how the data is coming from the scraping site (ScreenScraper). For instance

sf2t is Street Fighter II' - Hyper Fighting, however on ScreenScraper, the sf2t ROM is associated with Street Fighter 2' - Champion Edition .
ssf2xj is Super Street Fighter II X: Grand Master Challenge, but the parent game is Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo and the ROM is associated with it on the source site. In this case it might yield the correct name if you scraped with JP as region.

TL;DR - since Skyscraper supports ArcadeDB as a source, which works fine for detecting such titles, do a scrape for these titles from ArcadeDB instead of ScreenScraper.

Jezza

Using AcradeDB as a source worked THANKS @mitu

well all but sf2t, couldn't work out how to set region to try to get that one. looks like I need to modify /home/USER/.skyscraper/config.ini:

havn't worked out how to do that yet

ALSO apologies for sounding like I was blaming Skyscraper for the problem. I am so thankful for everything people have made here. Started on the arcade machine path without even knowing about retropie and it has gone from "this will be preety cool" to the most amazing thing and I love just working on it (havn't even really played games much) and enjoyed every minute THANKS GUYS

George Spiggott

I did a scrape last night for another game and Robocop seems to have fixed itself.

Jezza

@jthomas5150

This should cover it mate
The recent Skyscraper does it automatically WHICH IS AMAZING

but if you really want to know how to do it - i found this

Some of the ETA Prime (Whilst so helpful) don't have recent updates, so hit me up with any issues, I am only 6 months from a NOOB but the way things go here your questions will be answered