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    Scraping Question - Can I Do It Again But Now with Hi-Res?

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    • Foldi84F
      Foldi84
      last edited by

      I have 5 systems and using NBBA theme. I like it but I'd love for the images to be higher resolution.

      Can I re-run the Steven Selph's Scraper with "Thumbnails Only" turned off without any harm to my system?

      What I mean by "harm" is that I made a couple of changes to a couple of gamelists files. I would rather not lose them and I REALLY don't want anything weird like duplicate content.

      What's the best way to do this?
      How much room do you think I would need (anyone done this before)? I'd be doing it for 2600, 7800, NES, SNES, SMS & Genesis. I have a 32GB card and Pi is telling me I have about 20GB left.

      Thank You All!

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        sselph
        last edited by sselph

        There isn't a way to have it only download images but you can backup those and restore them afterward. The process would look something like this assuming the system is nes. The command is long, you'll have to scroll.

        cp ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/nes/gamelist.xml ~/nes-gamelist.xml
        rm ~/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/nes/*
        /opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -rom_dir ~/RetroPie/roms/nes -image_path ~/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/nes -image_dir ~/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/nes -max_width 0 -no_thumb -workers 4 -img_workers 2
        cp ~/nes-gamelist.xml ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/nes/gamelist.xml
        

        Auto-scraper: https://github.com/sselph/scraper
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          sselph
          last edited by

          oops I had -width instead of max_width in my original post. I updated it.

          Auto-scraper: https://github.com/sselph/scraper
          Donate to Extra-Life 2018 and help save lives: https://goo.gl/diu5oU

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