2013-02-21, 08:10
Crylen Wrote:If you'd like I can take some time over the next couple days and make a list of available systems on the database sites that aren't available on RCB currently. Although I completely understand if adding some oddball Japanese systems isn't a priority =)This would be nice. But as you say I can't promise when I will start working on this. I think I will do this when I start reworking the scrapers in some weeks.
Crylen Wrote:The only one I know of that lists information along with ROM filenames is Hyperspin's Hyperlist (http://hyperlist.hyperspin-fe.com/). Unfortunately they're in XML format and without descriptions but they do list title, rom name, genre, rating, manufacturer and year. Does anyone else know of a better database for arcade based systems?Thanks for the link. The format looks easy to implement with RCB. I could provide you a matching parser config in a couple of days. Only problem will be the game matching. We can rely on crc values (not sure if they will always match) or we have to check that the game names are matching with the names used in these files.
Dondi Wrote:Successfully launches MESS64 with the quotes around the path from a command prompt anywhere!! Ok, how do I implement that in my launcher command?Usually this should work out of the box. Can you show me a log after you tried to launch a game?
Dondi Wrote:Malte, I think I saw a user here on the forums who is affiliated with TheGamesDB.net... do you have a direct line to someone from the sites that you scrape from? Maybe I can zip and upload entire art sets that I have to contribute instead of having to individually upload single arts to the site. May make things easier. The art I am getting back from the scrapers is making me scratch my head a lotIts ghostelement. I am sure he will not mind if you PM him here in the forums.
Dondi Wrote:Ok, I am doing serious battle at this point. Just imported a PSX ReDump set which is .7z. Tried launching with RetroArch mednafan core and RCB is having a hard time parsing the .7z. In the logs it says that RCB has a platform library available for download. I downloaded it and took a peek. That stuff looks old and there is no win64 version. Am I fookered with the .7z format?You can get the latest version here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pylzma/. Still have to include this in one of next RCB releases.
Dondi Wrote:I also found your game descriptions and working parser configuration .zip. Looks old. Is this still good to use as per the instructions here or is it worth it to create new ones?The games are old too. I don't think that anything of the provided information has changed. But you are right. I could ping the guys at emuxtras and check if they already have bugfixed versions of these files.
Thanks for the logs. I am trying to fix most of the little issues now so it might be very helpful.