Steven Selph's scraper vs EmuStation Scraper, what's the difference?

herb_fargus

@DIY_glenn you don't need to use commands, it's already integrated in the setup script: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/scraper

tehswiftone

The Emulation Station scraper does a really good job at miss naming games as well. Do not use it.

DIY_glenn

@herb_fargus
Yeah, but when I choose "Scrape", it seems to be using EmuStations scraper instead.

I'm trying to make it a bit more kid-friendly, so it's easier for them to scrape when new games are added.

Lyle_JP

@DIY_glenn If your kids are already tech-savvy enough to add their own rom files, I bet they could learn the ins and outs of both scrapers with little trouble. Kids aren't afraid of tech and pick it up pretty quick in my experience.

sselph

@DIY_glenn If you are adding a couple games and want to scrape those then it might be easiest to use the scraper in ES. You can tell it(or might be the default) to only get games that don't already have an image so would only get the new games and then you could work with it to have it grab the right data. The link @herb_fargus provided shows the options for my scraper and you could choose append and set the naming like you like and save those settings so it could be set up but has more overhead to exit ES, etc.

The differences in my scraper and the one in ES as mentioned above are how the matches take place. They use the same data source but my scraper hashes the ROM data and matches that against a mapping to the ID in thegamesdb instead of using the name as a search parameter. So my scraper is great at quickly and with very little false positives matching lots of ROMs. ES scraper is much better for interactive searching but it is slower and if you just let it run unsupervised you will not be happy.

allenpie

I guess I'm doing it the chump way I have been googling the full game name and doing a full rename

One thing I noticed it if it's a game is 2 put it at II and it will find it better
Example Ninja Turtles II will find a copy of the game art
Ninja Turtles 2 won't find the game art

I tend to run both build in the 4.02 I'm only missing Neo Geo as I'm unsure if it's able to pull those?

Floob

@allenpie Yes, it can process Neo Geo, it will use the filename (opposed to a hash) as they are effectively Arcade/MAME games.

virg1

Quick question, I saw somewhere that Selphs's scraper will not work on external USB drives. If the drive is "properly mounted" using the instructions on the git hub site, will the scraper then work properly? I have not manually changed any folders paths like many have done with some to little success, and I believe ES knows all files are stored on the external USB. Want to try to scraper but affraid to after seeing that note Herb's link a few replies above. Thanks for
Assistance

BuZz

@virg1 it should be fine

virg1

Thank you BuZz! Going to try the scraper today.