Importing my own images into Emulation Station ?

deathr0w

I have all decent quality title/snips and so on for all of my systems but the scraper just takes 20yrs is there a way I can use my own images and upload via the ftp I don't really care about the scraped information it's just the pictures I want.

herb_fargus

@deathr0w

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/scraper#scraping-your-own-images

more info as well (WIP): https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3353/take-and-scrape-your-own-screenshots

deathr0w

Hi and thanks for the info but it seems to be failing now this is what I have done

made the images dir in the particular roms folders.
copied all my images to that folder and they do have the same name as the rom.
created runcommand-onstart.sh in the /opt/retropie/configs/all/ folder
edited /opt/retropie/configs/romtype/retroarch.cfg and added the 1 line required screenshot_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/roma/romtype/images/" for each rom type.
made sure i have the scraper in /opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/ then gone to the particular rom folder and typed

/opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -img_format=png -add_not_found=true -download_images=false -image_suffix=

now this will run the scraper but it seems to be scraping the images this is not what i want since I have the correct images already in the /images/ folder

rom name = my.rom.name.do.da.do.rom / image name = my.rom.name.do.da.do.png

2016/08/21 07:06:07 INFO: Starting: my.rom.name.do.da.do
2016/08/21 07:06:07 INFO: Starting: my.rom.name.do.da.do
2016/08/21 07:06:08 INFO: Starting: my.rom.name.do.da.do
2016/08/21 07:06:08 INFO: Starting: my.rom.name.do.da.do
2016/08/21 07:06:08 INFO: Starting: my.rom.name.do.da.do
2016/08/21 07:07:01 INFO: Starting: my.rom.name.do.da.do
2016/08/21 07:12:44 INFO: my.rom.name.do.da.do , hash not found

so any help on this would be wonderful i'm not sure if this can be done but it's so slow scraping and since I already have the images it should be an instant thing to build a gamelist file and just point to the images with the same name as the game file.

sselph

@deathr0w Are you sure it is downloading images? -download_images=false prevents it from downloading anything. All this command should do is create an entry for every rom file detected. If the hash is found, it will download the metadata(description, rating, etc). If an image is found locally, it will link to the image. If you don't want the metadata you could do -use_gdb=false and it should only do images but I haven't tested that.

herb_fargus

@deathr0w I've simplified the second post into a wiki page here: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Take-and-Scrape-Your-Own-Screenshots

But anyways the retroarch steps and runcommand steps are all unnecessary if you already have all your screenshots, you should only have to use sselphs scraper and it should work as long as your images and roms are the same name

Just for reference this is the step:

Also are your images pngs?

deathr0w

@sselph thanks for the extra command it speed things up for sure and it does seem to be working now :)

/opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -img_format=png -add_not_found=true -download_images=false -image_suffix= -use_gdb=false

worked wonders for me maybe it was just a cold boot on a cold morning that got the other stuff working to :)