Transferring Hyperspin roms and art to Emulationstation

[Mad_Duke]

Hi people!


I've set up everything. I have

GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SNES, SEGA GENESIS, SEGA 32X, NEO GEO, NEO GEO POCKET, NEO GEO POCKET COLOR,

SCUMMVM, QUAKE, DUKE3D etc. for when it's connected with HDMI + mouse, keyboard

All together something like almost 8.000 games.



But the problem is that the scraper is really bad. I have a lot of games which aren't scraped plus for example
ScummVM games - One game is "dw-cd" which it can't find as Discworld

My whole collection is writtent correctly (and all the roms).
I have videos and images in Hyperspin for every single rom.


Does anyone know if there is a way I could transfer my xml-s from the Hyperspin and all the images (box art) to emulationstation?

I've tried copying all the images, added the -image at the end, both the rom name and image name are the same. Tried with both *.png and *.jpg just to test
and it didn't even take those.

Does anyone have more experience with emulationstation? In Hyperspin it's super easy. The only "requirement" is to have the same name and that's it.

To see how a usual Hyperspin xml looks like you can see here
http://hyperlist.hyperspin-fe.com/

[Popcorn]

Use the command line scraper. Its super fast. You need to be root so quit es and type

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sudo bash

And then you need to run Retropie-Setup. I can't remember the exact path since I'm on my phone right now, but from memory, I think its:

/opt/RetroPie/supplemental/Retropie-Setup

Then select RetroPie Post Install setup (option 3 I think) And then look for the Scraper option. And run that.

It works miles better than the ES one which is absolutely brutal. I'll double check the proper paths, commands and options and update this post in the morning. In bed now

[Mad_Duke]

Use the command line scraper. Its super fast. You need to be root so quit es and type

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sudo bash

And then you need to run Retropie-Setup. I can't remember the exact path since I'm on my phone right now, but from memory, I think its:

/opt/RetroPie/supplemental/Retropie-Setup

Then select RetroPie Post Install setup (option 3 I think) And then look for the Scraper option. And run that.

It works miles better than the ES one which is absolutely brutal. I'll double check the proper paths, commands and options and update this post in the morning. In bed now

Hei!

Somehow missed this reply

Unfortunately. It's not about the speed, but about precision. All those scrapers are awful because they don't use rom file names which doesn't make any sense because these days all the roms in the galaxy on basically any system ever produced have their game lists with one of a kind identification names. Which is super useful (like my example with ScummVM and dw-cd).

Because EmulationStation is dead in the water for about a year already and because it's not customizable I'm trying with Attract-Mode. I see it supports Hyperspin XML's and artwork (videos, boxart, wheel art..). Hope everything works. I've got it running alongside Kodi which will be a good addition to the emulation aspect. Anyhow. Was playing for the last two days with XML lists and reducing my Mame somehow from 50 gig to a little under 10 so I hope now I have most of the dependencies covered.