2014-08-15, 17:49
(2014-08-15, 17:28)Lakmir Wrote: Hi everyone,Please, use your brain... If we suppose that scrapping a game information take approximately 10s (to search, identify, download data, cover and fanart images). So to scrap 30.000 games it will take you 300.000 second... so around 84 hours. On your case, to only scrap 10% of that will take... 8H and half (so not far form your 9 hours). Advanced launcher is to launch applications, media files, or games. Not to collect them. 30.000 is a big collection. But how many games are you really play or use...? 1-2%?
I've been using Advanced Launcher for a few months, and so far it's been pretty good - almost no complaints! But I just dumped a full 1.53 MAME set onto it, switched the scraper to ArcadeHits, then went to bed; nine hours later it's still at 10%. It's working, it's just sort of slow, and at 30,000 games to scrape, well...
Basically what I'm wondering is if anyone knows of any downloadable .nfo/fanart/thumbnail sets that can be used as drag-and-drop options. I was hoping to have this ready for an event tomorrow and I still need to do some configuring, but it looks like if I left it to its own devices it'd take all weekend to finish. I haven't changed any of the filenames; they've all been audited and they're all what MAME is expecting, I think.
Any help is greatly appreciated!