[SOFT] Universal XML Scraper V2 - Easy Scrape with High Quality picture

screech

On retropie, you have to way to handle the Scrape :

What I call the "easy" one ;) All in the rom folder :
Exemple :
In your Rom/Snes/ you have

your roms
the gamelist.xml
the downloaded_images folder (with all the picture in it).

If I don't mistake, it's the first place where emulationstation check for these info.
But it's not compatible if you scrape with the Retropie Scraper.
And the good thing, it's easily transportable.

So, for UXS, the "[Rom folder]" profile are these one.

The second way is the "standard" way Retropie default folder.

Your roms are in : /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/%system%/
Your gamelist.xml are in : /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/%System%/
Your picture are in : /home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/%system%/

So, for UXS, the "standard" profile are these one.

a7mag3ddon

See i want the gamelist.xml to have the correct paths to games/ artwork etc. but i want to do all the scraper FROM and ON the pc hard drive.

screech

so you need to "simulate" the Retropie standard path on your PC... like I did for the test ^^

Make a folder name Retropie.
and subfolder /configs/all/emulationstation/downloaded_images
and subfolder /configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists
and subfolder /roms

So you just need to put your different plateform folder (named exactly the same as retropie) in the Roms folder and just tell UXS you want to autoconfigure on this one ;) (with the wizzard and a standard profil ;) )

C hicaned

Hello!

Anyone experiencing this error when scraping roms :-

0_1486288643964_upload-3d2ddb5f-db6c-4c10-b4a1-77594b0104f8

Seeing this error several times when scraping 800 Megadrive roms with 3 pictures per rom.

Should probably add I'm on the very latest version as well (2.1.0.6). I wasn't going to mention the 'unusual' error ;-)

Thanks,

Chicaned

Nismo

@C-hicaned error.. png fucked... lol XD

I'm sure @screech can help you with that.

UDb23

@Nismo Unusual error message lol!

screech

Oups !! sorry for this unusual error message ^^
It's a debug one who normally don't happen anymore (it's when I try to resize a picture and the original one have no dimension... so the picture is a fu£$*%^ one ;) )

Need to recheck why it can appear again :S

Jeck11

Will this scrape videos as well? Looking for a way to build up a collection for the new themes.

Keikato

Hi. First of all thanks for your scrapper and sorry my realy bad english (from Ukraine). Please tell me why skrapper skips part of the Roms? Whether it is possible to manually select the cover for missed games?
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Keikato

@Keikato said in [SOFT] Universal XML Scraper V2 - Easy Scrape with High Quality picture:

Hi. First of all thanks for your scrapper and sorry my realy bad english (from Ukraine). Please tell me why skrapper skips part of the Roms? Whether it is possible to manually select the cover for missed games?

games from us and jpn regions, some with fan translations, but i still dont see any regulars

gameplaygoon

Im having two big problems with this but also really appreciate you putting this together im sure this took alot of work. Thanks :)

When using with Retropie if I press scrape all systems I get this error message everytime.

Also after using threading it seemed to mess something up and crash everytime afterwards.

Thanks

Tasio

A bit of mixed feelings about this software. I really like the idea but in practice it has many issues.
I'll list some of the issues I can remember:

Won't open on my main computer, freeze the file explorer and I can't find the process to kill it, I have to restart windows 10. On an old laptop with windows 10 works fine.
I have tried with master system because I have few games and is faster but no matter what "Mix image profile" I choose, it always creates "BigPicture"
Some games are not found with this software, the non found can be find with the default retropie scraper. Examples: Fantasy zone II
After setting my pi roms folder url "\192.168.1.199\roms" on the wizard, and running the scrape, it throws and error because SSH is still pointing to the default HOST, not to 192.168.1.199, I have to manually edit this configuration.
I think creating files and folder when first lunch may not be a good idea unless you ask for confirmation, many pleople try to open open downloaded software from the browser.
scraping some plataforms like fba with 4 images (mix), I have same error as mentioned above by @gameplaygoon
Very slow for some systems, I tried for pc engine and it tooks 8 minutes for only one game, it didn't find the game and now I have "Akumajou dracula X" duplicated because this scraper did something wrong. this is part of the error log:

@error description:
$XML_ERR_PARSE=11
Error: with Parsing objects, .parseError.errorCode=0 Use _XML_ErrorParser_GetDescription() for get details.

@extended description:
$XML_EXT_DEFAULT=0
Default - Do not return any additional information

[11:56:38] - /!\ _XML_Open ERROR (Data/jeu/regionshortnames/regionshortname)
[11:56:38] - /!\ _XML_Load @error:
@error description:
$XML_ERR_PARSE=11
Error: with Parsing objects, .parseError.errorCode=0 Use _XML_ErrorParser_GetDescription() for get details.

I hope this help, I would really like to try those "Mix image profile", I'll have a look at Screenscraper to see if I can help with anything.

gameplaygoon

I am also noticing when using the update xml method it just seems to says hashing files forever I thought this option was supposed to reduce the time if you already had scraped for some of the roms for a given system it just seems to go on forever. Sorry if Im missing something.

Also would anyone kindly clear something up for me, I have noticed people have made themes that have video previews of roms. Something I would love to do, I also noticed in this scraper there is a video profile mentioned is this the same thing of something completely different Im new to this whole thing (:

Squilenator

@screech I'm using the last release and got a problem, after the scrape process some roms were renamed wrongly, such as "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - Pool of Radiance (USA)" which became just "Pool of Radiance". It was always like that?

BORIStheBLADE1

I posted this in my thread and just realized this is probably a better place for it.

Ran some N64 roms and have five that won't scrap. Ran it two different times with your new software.

http://pastebin.com/QYYApU0f

mattrixk

@gameplaygoon If you update RetroPie from source you can get the ability to have Video Previews. This gives you 2 new tags for use in your gamelist.xml files: <video> and <marquee>. You can use the RetroPie (video) scrape profile to scrape videos and UXS will scrape the game videos that exist and put them in the <video> tag in the created gamelist.xml along with all the other metadata.

Just be careful. The videos are all 640x480 (I think) and a couple of MB each. That can add up if you aren't careful, so maybe scrape them on your PC first and then only use certain videos.

gameplaygoon

@mattrixk Thanks but what do you mean update Retropie from source, I have the latest version installed?

mattrixk

@gameplaygoon Sorry mate, someone else is going to have to answer that one for you. I've never done it. I have a my setup working and since it's more a media box than a game station, I don't really mess with it.

This is where they talk about Video Preview, but beware as it's now over 400 comments long.

screech

@mattrixk and @gameplaygoon Warning : no more "RetroPie (video)" scrape profile.
Now there is only Retropie (Standard, MIX, or Rom Folder) profiles. BUT, in "Option configuration" Menu, you can "activate" video" and choose what you want to download as Marquee (not only Marquees ;) )

@Squilenator on wich plateform ?

@BORIStheBLADE1 "Conker's Bad Fur Day (USA).z64 " haven't CRC... so i can't import it. . The other one are ok, it's done.

@gameplaygoon What do you try to "update" ? On plateform like MAME, UXS try to found a match inside the ZIP if the ZIP isn't found. So it can be long. On CD plateform try this : https://github.com/Universal-Rom-Tools/Universal-XML-Scraper/wiki/ISO-Scrape-Freeze-or-are-very-long

@Tasio :

Freeze : Try this : https://github.com/Universal-Rom-Tools/Universal-XML-Scraper/wiki/Universal-XML-Scraper-fatal-error!-(err_SystemList)
Mix Profile : It look like a "write right" problem... Try launch in admin ?
Not found : Try this : https://github.com/Universal-Rom-Tools/Universal-XML-Scraper/wiki/Rom-Missing-on-Screenscraper
Path to the scrape, and Info for SSH are dissociated... (sorry) So you need to configure it both if you aren't in a "standard" configuration
Creating file/folder : You are true... It's an old "security" function I need to take off...
Scraping FBA : I don't know why :S need to check...
Time may be du to Server response (some heavy load these last days...) But having multiple time the same info is weird :S
Parsing Error : It's maybe due to the same issue (write auth), it can parse the xml maybe because it can't write it....

(Sorry for the delay to answer, I were sick.. And it's not finish >< )

gameplaygoon

How do you choose how the video will be layed out or does it simply just download it into a folder and you have to do the rest. Because when you choose the layout of the pictures how do you choose where the video is placed?

Thanks