Posts by Mario77

  • Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

    Quote from Saltman

    I've tried a different things, but still getting the same result when I try to run the script. The command box opens up, runs through a bunch of lines quickly and then closes. I do not get a chance to actually read what its going through because it flashes so quickly.

    OK..let me try to go step by step...

    From your windows PC go to file explorer_network and browse to your nas folder named roms...right click on that folder and choose "map network drive.."

    Windows should give that folder a drive letter and after that it should show as a drive on My Computer or This PC in windows 10.

    Lets say you have windows 10....go to This PC and open the mapped drive should look something like roms(\\192.168.0.10) (G:)

    Copy the fastscraper.bat to the roms folder...should look like this

    PeCn7iw

    Before you run the scraper just enter the screen scraper user and pass..

    In line 18 of the script enter which artwork you want to download...if you want to download 3d boxart you enter 3b as I showed you earlier...

    If you want to also download screenshots first remove or rename the "downloaded_images" folder so you don t overwrite the downloaded images..

    run the script....it should download sselph scraper and then you will choose which subfolder you want to scrape example nes or snes etc...

    after that it should start scraping

    When done scraping you should have a gamelist.xml and a folder with artwork

    You put the gamelist.xml in /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/game.emulationstation/gamelists/(nes or whatever)

    You can put the downloaded images on your nas in the roms folder...put images in different folders for each emulator..

    the gamelist.xml should look something like this

    gamelist.xml.txt

    My image path looks a bit complicated because I have more artwork then just images for ES ....I m using the same images for ES,RA and AEL..

    Anyway just ask if you get stuck..

  • Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

    Quote from Saltman

    It my roms folder, am I supposed to have a gamelist.xml document with all my roms for each emulator? I remember when I created a folder for each emulator (in Storage/Emulators/Roms) to match the gamelist file structure I didn't carry over the gamelist.xml file for each one.

    Games.xml is created by the scraper in the roms folder for every roms set..after scraping is completed you place it in the addondata/emulationstation/ there s a folder for every rom set game.xml...not at home right now to give you exact location but there is an empty games.xml in each folder..

  • Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

    Quote from Saltman

    Strange, I think I got it to run now. Not really sure what the problem was before. It closed pretty quick after running through the script. I looked on emulation and don't see any covers or metadata

    I scraped mine long time ago and I just keep backups now but from what I can remember to do it from windows I had to first browse from windows networks to the roms folder and map network roms folder...

    On line 17 of script you choose what you want to scrape...for 3d boxarts and screenshots you enter

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    set consoleImg=-console_img="3b,s"

    You can also set the paths in the script but I prefer to edit games.xml with notepad after..

    Then you go to the roms folder from mapped drive and you place the script in the main roms folder..

    Run script and it should download sselph.exe on first run..

    when you r asked which system do you want to scrape you enter the name of the roms subfolder ex nes or snes..

    and it should start scraping.

  • Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

    Tonight tried to update LE to 9.1.001 but had few issues with RO latest version not starting and older version no audio out.

    Command aplay -L is not working

    Code
    aplay: device_list:272: no soundcards found..

    error in log is

    Code
    error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0

    Adding this to config.txt fixes the audio issue and brings back ALSA options in LE audio output options

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    dtparam=audio=on

    But with this line RA even old version doesn't start,gives same error as latest one..

    Code
    error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0

    I m not sure if removing ALSA from listed audio devices was intended or it's a bug hence the errors from RA

    Now I m back to LE 9.0.2 and everything is working as expected..

    Hopefully this will help bite_your_idols

    Hardware RPi 2

  • Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

    With my rpi I use system.d to mount network folders..I assume it s the same with nuc

    see here

    So you mount ip_of_your_nas/emulators to storage/emulators and you should see the content of your nas emulators folder in storage/emulators on Libreelec..then you browse to storage/emulators/roms from ES addon settings...you can just mount the roms folder only but I think its better to mount main emulators folder so you can leave everything on your nas.bioses and assets...artwork etc

  • Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

    Quote from Saltman

    Thanks for this, got the sound working. A few other things now. I want to pull my roms from my synology nas for emulation station. Is there a way to do this? My guess is that I would have to do something like mount each network folder somehow. Also, I'm not getting any scraper information from emulation station

    I have all my roms and artwork on a connected hdd so not sure about that but my first guess is that you should mount the folder on your nas which has your roms to storage/emulators/roms

    Regarding scraping I don't use the built in scraper.I use sselph scraper with fastscraper and then mass edit with notepad++ where needed.

    All you have to do is create an account at screenscraper.fr

    Then get the script from here and insert your account user and psword and edit the script to get your artwork...I got mine set to download 3d boxart and screenshots but you can set it up how you like..

    Lesson learned make sure you always keep backups of your setup as you save loads of time and work...

  • Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

    If I remember well by default roms folder should be in storage/emulators although I never used that myself as I have my roms on hdd. So probably you won't have to set path if they are in default folder..The important thing is that you make a folder for each emulator and name it exactly like the ES gamelists folder

    Code
    /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/game.emulationstation/gamelists

    So the roms folders will look like this

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    /storage/emulators/roms/nes
/storage/emulators/roms/snes
/storage/emulators/roms/psx
/storage/emulators/roms/megadrive

...etc