Skyscraper Mimic Built In Scraper Settings Possible?

George Spiggott

I have noticed that I can scrape some Amiga games using the built in scraper on Retropie that I cannot get to scrape with Skyscraper. Both scrapers are using Screenscraper as a source.

Some examples are:

Gloom Deluxe (filename: Gloom_Deluxe.adf)
Alien Breed 3D (filename: AlienBreed3D_v1.2_CD32.lha)
Pinball Fantasies (filename: PinballFantasies_v2.7_CD32.lha)

Is there a way to get Skyscraper to mimic whatever settings the built in scraper is using in Skyscraper?

Also when Skyscraper scrapes a file with .bin/.cue files which file is it using to search?

Thanks

mitu

@George-Spiggott said in Skyscraper Mimic Built In Scraper Settings Possible?:

Is there a way to get Skyscraper to mimic whatever settings the built in scraper is using in Skyscraper?

You can use the --query parameter and scrape using romnom option, so that it scrapes using the name of the game, instead of using the checksum of the file.

/opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper -p amiga -s screenscraper --query romnom=Alien+Breed+3d AlienBreed3D_v1.2_CD32.lha

....
#1/1 (T1) Pass 1 ---- Game 'AlienBreed3D_v1.2_CD32' found! :) ----
Scraper:        screenscraper
From cache:     NO
Search match:   100 %
Compare title:  'Alien Breed 3D'
Result title:   'Alien Breed 3d' ()
Platform:       'Amiga CD32' ()
Release Date:   '1995-01-01' ()
Developer:      'Team 17' ()
Publisher:      'Team 17' ()
Players:        '2' ()
Ages:           '' ()
Tags:           'Shooter' ()
Rating (0-1):   '' ()
Cover:          YES ()
Screenshot:     YES ()
Wheel:          YES ()
Marquee:        NO ()

Also when Skyscraper scrapes a file with .bin/.cue files which file is it using to search?

It depends on what Skyscraper considers as a ROM file, if both extensions are registered, it will try to find a match for each file. You can override this I think in the configuration.

George Spiggott

Thanks. It took a bit of doing but I got most of them. I've created a script file to take the hassle out of this if I have to do it again.

The only game I couldn't get to work was Xenon 2 Megablast CDTV (filename: Xenon_2_Megablast_CD32.cue) I'm not sure if the filename is throwing it off but labelling the .cue as "_CD32" is the only way I can get it to boot on Amiberry.

muldjord

@George-Spiggott You can also consider trying with some of the other sources in Skyscraper. openretro is an Amiga-centric database (and really good, even with the lha files), and mobygames is also very good for Amiga games. thegamesdb probably also.

George Spiggott

@muldjord Thanks I will look. Xenon 2 Megablast CDTV is definitely on Screenscraper though. I've tried every possible name combination I can think of.

https://www.screenscraper.fr/rechercheroms.php?numpage=0&action=newrecherche

George Spiggott

Now I'm really confused:

This will not scrape: /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper -p amiga -s screenscraper --query romnom=xenon+2 Xenon_2_Megablast_CD32.cue

This will: /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper -p amiga -s screenscraper --query romnom=xenon+2 Xenon2_v1.7_CDTV.lha

Only the filename is changed, everything else is the same. Can anyone shed light on this please?

mitu

@George-Spiggott said in Skyscraper Mimic Built In Scraper Settings Possible?:

This will: /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper -p amiga -s screenscraper --query romnom=xenon+2 Xenon2_v1.7_CDTV.lha

Works for me:

#1/1 (T1) Pass 1 ---- Game 'Xenon2_v1.7_CDTV' found! :) ----
Scraper:        screenscraper
From cache:     NO
Search match:   100 %
Compare title:  'Xenon 2'
Result title:   'Xenon 2 - Megablast' ()
Platform:       'Amiga CDTV' ()
Release Date:   '' ()
Developer:      'Bitmap Brothers' ()
Publisher:      'Image Works' ()
Players:        '2' ()
Ages:           '' ()
Tags:           'Shooter' ()
Rating (0-1):   '0.6' ()
Cover:          YES ()
Screenshot:     YES ()
Wheel:          YES ()
Marquee:        NO ()

Description: ()
'Xenon 2: Megablast i[...]

'screenscraper' requests remaining: 1993

George Spiggott

@mitu Yes for me too but the first entry (the .cue file) does not.

muldjord

@George-Spiggott Always remember to quote your queries if there's spaces in the name:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper -p amiga -s screenscraper --query "romnom=xenon+2 Xenon_2_Megablast_CD32.cue"

George Spiggott

@muldjord I copy pasted that entry into Putty and got the following error from Skyscraper

'--query' was set but more than one filename was provided on command line or using the '--fromfile' option. Please provide only a single rom file name you wish to scrape using the query, now quitting...

muldjord

@George-Spiggott Yeah sorry, I misread your post. But you do need those quotes in case you want to use spaces in the romnom name. In this case you used a + instead. You should use %20 which is an url encoded space. It should be:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper -p amiga -s screenscraper --query "romnom=xenon%202" Xenon_2_Megablast_CD32.cue

But "romnom=xenon%202" is not a good match for the ScreenScraper romnom query. I suggest using --query sha1=SHA1SUM instead where you substitute SHA1SUM with a rom's sha1 sum that you have found for the correct game on their website.

George Spiggott

Thanks @muldjord The "xenon+2" bit works because "/opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper -p amiga -s screenscraper --query romnom=xenon+2 Xenon2_v1.7_CDTV.lha" scrapes no problem. I have the scraped image now from that file/scrape. My plan is to get Skyscraper use a local image now I have it.

I tried sha1 and crc, neither of them work. For some reason it just doesn't like my .cue/.iso copy of Xenon 2 CDTV.

Scraping for Amiga can be a bit tricky especially if, like me, you're determined to use specific roms rather than common ones.