Scraper optimization

Finhead

Even other forks for example Recalbox scraping is more of a pain in the but then it is on Retropie.
They do the same thing .fullscrape

Until someone puts a massive amount of time into developing a gui wrapper for a scraper service, the better option is always going to be a command line scraper. And that is assuming thegaemesdb.net stays up. There are just some things cli clients do better.

We need to keep ask's in perspective, we as a community put a huge ask on thegamesdb but their donations are not reflective of the demand we as a community put on them and the demand for their service is literally crushing their servers and we get vocal about our dislike of that feature being unavailable regardless of whether we have ever donated or making vocal and somewhat alarmist replace thegamesdb develop an alternative switch or code something better. Additionally asking the limited developers we have to focus on the one demand we have a working solution for its just a few more manual steps to get it working takes them away from kernel improvements new ports, features etc etc.

Honestly as long as gamesdb.net scraping artwork with sspeh is a breeze and there is only one other frontend period I have seen do a better job easier with artwork and it is a mac OSX frontend. Mess with Hyperspin and emumovies accounts paid subscriptios download rate limits having to edit xml by hand renaming romsets its a pain in the but.

And honestly its not going to be very long before Attract Mode or Meh replace Emulation Station as the default front-end for Retropie or alternatives at least and the artwork structure for those is going to be manual and manual for a good while. Luckily the Hyperspin and EmuMovies community have already done that heavy lifting though were going to have to deal with getting emumovie accounts and all the hoops that comes with that but the end product will look great. I would much rather the devs look forward or we put the ask to the meh and attract mode developers to make the art scraping and organizing process as user friendly as possible and let our devs keep focusing on what they want to work on as well as the good ideas we come forward with but we as a community need to be fair and not ask for major development on a platform that will be irrelevant in coming months.

Nothing to do with the topic really, but there are no hoops to jump through for artwork on AM. You can get everything you need Right Here no membership etc. Then you place them in the correct folders, it's a good alternative to the scraper since it's not down.

meleu

OK @BuZz , I agree that the fun is a pre-requisite. It was just a suggestion.

Going back to the topic (scraper optimization): Is there an automated way to backup/copy my scraps and put it on another fresh installed RetroPie?

If there isn't, I think it would be great.

herb_fargus

@meleu no automated way but you can easily copy the folders from samba shares to back up you games and scrapes and then just copy them over or you can create a backup image of your SD card altogether.

meleu

@herb_fargus yep, but the files are a little scattered.

I think I can do this, but I'm just suggesting an easy way for the n00bs.

BuZz

can also do it via a usb stick which can backup/restore configs.