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

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

screech

UXS only Scrape ;)

The Layout is in the theming (and need the right version of Retropie to work ;) )

Squilenator

@screech Nintendo NES

Jeck11

I just downloaded from the github and my Windows Defender registered a couple hits from it: 0_1486475237403_2017-02-07 08_45_51-Windows Defender.png

Anyone else noticed anything weird?

Dukafleed

screech, i have been using your tool for sometime and i can say it is the best artwork provider (specially the 3 in 1 feature)

are you looking to expand itin include a rom metadata manager where you can fetch info and edit them accordingly by rom or roms ?

BORIStheBLADE1

OK so with version 2.1.0.5 I was able to scrap all my rom sets and every thing came back 100%. I updated to 2.1.0.6 and it wouldn't scrap the same rom sets 100%. Also every other time I'd try to use it, it would say something about losing connection. So I have reverted back to 2.1.0.5 and everything is working right again.

hooperre

@Tasio

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.

If I may add something specific... I think overwriting the XML file without confirmation is quite detrimental and, if not backed up, can cause a major headache for anyone who has done video set ups and things of that nature.

hooperre

I'm wondering a way to get specific files that were missed. When I first downloaded roms (as a 10 year old 10 years ago) I renamed everything because I didn't understand why there were (rev a) or (USA) or (U)'s attached in the romsets. I just wanted 1 game with an easy title. So a few (overall it did a great job identifying my games) games were not picked up. One that doesn't make much sense to me is Donkey Kong Country 2 and 3. I'll use DKC3 as my example.

My file name is simply: "Donkey Kong Country 3 - Dixie Kong's Double Trouble.zip"

So I went to the game page on screenscraper.fr and created a fake new (text) file and renamed it one of the 'Associated File Names' directly from the file name section: "Donkey Kong Country 3 - Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (USA) (En, Fr) .zip" and "Donkey Kong Country 3 - Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (USA) (En, Fr) .sfc". (File extension was correct, not just renamed with a .txt extension.)

Re-ran the scraper and no luck. This method did work for Mega Man 8 and Dragon Ball Z - Hyper Dimension, however. Is there some trick to this that I'm missing?

hansolo77

I think the scraper will use rom name only as a last resort, and will use a hash check first. The hash shouldn't have changed if the name is all that has.

davidgrohl

Hi,
I would to try this program with retro pie running on raspberry pi 3.
Is it possibile to scrap my roms and transfer result on retropie?

Thanks

Tasio

@hooperre what worked best for me was getting the missing roms from a good source.

FlyingTomahawk

Notebook: Acer, i5, 4GB RAM etc...
OS: Windows 7 64-bit

Downloaded this form github into my downloads folder.
Extracted there and tried to run the program with either Scraper64.exe or Scraper.exe but nothing happens, nothing loads, no process is started.
Looking at the task manager there is no indication that this program was started.
Deactivated firewall and anti-virus software, still no luck.
Did I miss a step?

paradadf

@FlyingTomahawk why do some people doesn't look into the releases page like in almost any other project?
https://github.com/Universal-Rom-Tools/Universal-XML-Scraper/releases

FlyingTomahawk

@paradadf

Lesson learned, thank you.

FlyingTomahawk

@screech
Fantastic work!
Just played around with it and it is not only fast but also gives you tons of options.
I like the MIX images thing that looks really awesome.
I just tested this on my PC but I will have to trash all my images and gamelists on my 2 RPis and replace them with this stuff here.

Again thanks a lot for this.

FlyingTomahawk

After 6 hours and 54 minutes scrapping I have 820 Images and.... an empty gamelist.xml file. :-/ lol
I don't think it can handle more then a few roms at the time. I am trying now half of that amount to see if it'll work this time.
I'll know more in 3 hours and 3 minutes...

Dochartaigh

I could have totally missed this, but I'm coming from a Mac and installed Parallels so I can use PC programs. To get this scraper to work your Windows PC needs to be able to see the Pi as a network drive, correct? How are you guys doing this?

On my Mac it's not setup as a network drive either - I either SSH in with the built-in Mac Terminal program, or use my FTP program (Cyberduck or FileZilla)...just seeing how you PC users would go about this the best way. All my searches are bringing up how to run ROMs from a Network drive - when I want to go the opposite way (view the Pi as a Network drive in Windows, not have the Pi see a network drive in PC/Windows land).