Scrape MAME Metadata?

dankcushions

@hansolo77 sselph scraper uses mamedb, which has been down for ages. many posts about this.

Rion

@hansolo77 This is a limitation of the current database on screenscraper.fr.

More info about it here

hansolo77

@Shakz Will merging the ROMs cause me to lose the ability to play various clones? How does it display them in the ES if they're merged?

Shakz

Yeah it will....squishes them all up under the parent rom and thats what you play. :-(
Unless someone knows a trick in lr-mame
If they are merged they just display as one game....the parent.

hansolo77

Bummer. I think I'll just use what I got then, and wait for an updated database that has more details about the country/etc.

screech

hi @hansolo77

So just for information :

Name + Country will try to match your rom country to the database (and if weel register in DB and found) will show you the country.
Name + Bracket will catch the bracket from your Rom Filname (ex : mario (jap)(v2).zip will give you : Mario Bros. (jap)(v2) )

So for now the DB on Arcade game is not complete... And we have a lot's of work to do on it...

The main thing is, today, we can't specify so much things about clone (except some country).

the Screenscraper V2 website and DB is in progress, when it's finish, we can add lot's more information about clone (country all of them, clone, and some other stuff). So when it's done I can put these information in UXS to scrape.

The best way (today) is to merge your rom to avoid duplicate. Sorry.

hansolo77

Name+Bracket only generates a gamelist.xml with the Game Name. mario (jap)(v2).zip creates Mario Bros.

In my previous example... Name+Bracket creates:

19xx.zip
19xxa.zip
19xxh.zip
19xxj.zip
19xxjr1.zip

to

19XX: The War Against Destiny
19XX: The War Against Destiny
19XX: The War Against Destiny
19XX: The War Against Destiny
19XX: The War Against Destiny

Where as GameName+Country will at least provide the (country) in the name if the data exists in the db. Games like Pacman, which is a clone of Puckman, just doesn't show up. I think it should be listed as Pacman (Clone of Puckman).

screech

that's normal...

19xx.zip
19xxa.zip
19xxh.zip
19xxj.zip
19xxjr1.zip

haven't anything between bracket ;)

if you have something like :
19xxjr1 (1 player).zip then name will be 19XX: The War Against Destiny (1 player)

Like I say, the next DB version will provide more information on clone (at least "clone") so I can add these info in UXS ;)

hansolo77

Alright, cool. :)

hansolo77

I'm back again trying to scrape MAME. Using the options available in the latest version of USX I'm still getting a simple gamelist without all the extra bits. Has the database been updated any with the information on clones/etc yet? I know you said this was in the works before, but this thread is 8 months old and I thought maybe SOME progress has been made...