Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?

Folly

It pretty much working now after the update.
Nice thing the slow process of installing and compiling packages are skipped now ;-)

Although the bad formatted gamelist.xml will produce errors after closing emulationstation.
As you suggested I reformatted the gamelist.xml :

xmllint --format gamelist.xml > gamelist.xml.new

Later renaming gamelist.xml.new -> gamelist.xml again.
Now I have a good .xml and emulationstation gave me no errors after closing.
I would recommend to find a solution for this problem.

I will play with it some more.
Perhaps a good idea, for you, to make a new thread in "ideas and development" so we can discuss using/improving your scraper

Folly

@duglor

I could place the files on my google-drive for you.
Is that easy enough ?

kiro

@Folly Hi, It is strange that emulationstation is not closing properly with the unformatted XML, it is a proper xml after all, but I'll check on that.

BTW, the scraper works for every single system. There's a post here:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/32226/soft-new-scraper-in-the-works?_=1667982475849

Sure, google drive is ok if you want to send files.

I think I'll start working on a trimmed-down version specifically for retropie. The slow installation time is due to python libraries for GUI and SSH. (You can run it from windows and scrape a remote system for example), which is not necessarily needed on a retropie installation itself for example.

Again, Thanks! and please keep me posted if you keep on trying it, as I mentioned, it works for every single system, not only Archimedes :-)

Folly

@kiro

Just curious.
Is there a way to add stuff so more software is recognised ?

Folly

@kiro said in Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?:

The slow installation time is due to python libraries for GUI and SSH.

Well, I think, if you know, that the process can take some time then it's basically NOT a problem.
As long as you don't recognise it as a freeze.

kiro

@Folly Hi, just fixed the formatting of the xml, so now it looks nice when editing (although it will not change the validity of the xml itself).

Regarding other systems, the scraper will read your emulation station systems file (usually located at /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg)

As soon as you add more systems to your retropie via the retropie_setup script and ROMs, the scraper will automatically detect them.

Hope this helps!

Folly

@kiro

Aha a nice xml format, that's quick.
I will try it when I can !

I don't mean system but software.
Some archimedes files are not recognised, where does your script get the data and how can that be improved so more software of the archimedes is recognised.

Folly

@kiro said in Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?:

@Folly Hi, just fixed the formatting of the xml, so now it looks nice when editing (although it will not change the validity of the xml itself).

I just tried and I got a pretty xml !
Though I get these errors from emulationstation :

mmal: mmal_vc_component_create: failed to create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1:ENOMEM)
mmal: mmal_component_create_core: could not create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1)
mmal: mmal_vc_component_create: failed to create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1:ENOMEM)
mmal: mmal_component_create_core: could not create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1)
mmal: mmal_vc_component_create: failed to create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1:ENOMEM)
mmal: mmal_component_create_core: could not create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1)
mmal: mmal_vc_component_create: failed to create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1:ENOMEM)
mmal: mmal_component_create_core: could not create component 'vc.ril.hvs' (1)

I just tried also my "pretty" reformatted one which will give the same now.

Not sure why it reports these errors.

Edit :
I turned off the gamelist for archimedes, turns out this issue remains.
So it's probably not from your gamelist.xml after all.

kiro

@Folly Hi! Good to hear...

My scraper grabs information from various sources on the internet...but it also has a system of learning when something is missing and trying to update missing information whenever possible. The more people scraping the roms with my scraper the better this learning feature works. I also manually update the DB every so often, so keep your scraping coming :-)

duglor

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duglor

@Folly said in Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?:

@duglor

I could place the files on my google-drive for you.
Is that easy enough ?

Yes. That would be excellent.

kiro

@duglor Hi, I think you make a valid point. I just started working on a smaller version that could be inserted into the retropie-setup environment and used directly from there. Is going to take a while so hang on tight!

Thanks for the feedback!

kiro

@duglor Ok that was faster than expected:

https://github.com/zayamatias/retroscraper-rpie

Let me see how it works for you, I need to understand if the documentation in the repository is clear enough for everybody :-)

Thanks!

Folly

@duglor said in Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?:

@Folly said in Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?:

@duglor

I could place the files on my google-drive for you.
Is that easy enough ?

Yes. That would be excellent.

If you feel up to it I recommend to try the slimmed down version Of @kiro first.

duglor

@kiro said in Where can I scrape Archimedes game pix and info?:

@duglor Hi, I think you make a valid point. I just started working on a smaller version that could be inserted into the retropie-setup environment and used directly from there. Is going to take a while so hang on tight!

Thanks for the feedback!

No problem. The other scrapers need competition. It makes things better in this area (emulation) :)

duglor

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kiro

@duglor you can use the flag --systems Archimedes and only that one should be scanned. Maybe I should put the command options more clearly 🙂

duglor

@kiro Oh, then i will try it later today. It's our anniversary!! be well!!

duglor

@kiro @Folly Can someone try this first before I do? I am just getting close to fixing all the nonsense that happened to my Pie from using an experimental installation.

Or Kiro, can you paste me the commands exactly as i should type them in to just scrape archimedes large image box covers? Even proper spacing? Also, if the names of my roms are not in the format of game -nation..etc...the new standard...will your scraper guess at them?

be well and sorry for the hesitancy. - anxious old man