ragedogg69 Wrote:Is anyone using RCB with MQ5? While games launch fine from inside RCB, they do not launch from the most played shortcut list within MQ5. Anyone else have the issue?

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ldavet Wrote:Thanks, I'll give it a shot. But, even with all the scrapers, RCB fails to retrieve info for certain games... It's possible the sites' database has some missing games.

whitetigerx8 Wrote:Idarot - I have Confluence set for both Kodi and RCB 2.1.2. I got the 2.1.2 version of RCB by downloading the add-on through Kodi. Today, I just updated from Kodi 14 to Kodi 14.2, and the problem with the words being on the screen when I'm not in a filter options just stopped, but I still can't see the menu options.

GOOCHY Wrote:I'm having a problem getting my local boxfront files to scrape. I run an initial online scrape to pull info, images, etc. but then afterward I want to rescrape and just add my boxfront images and it's not working. Can someone walk me through the process because obviously I'm not getting it.

(2015-03-19, 07:28)malte Wrote: Sometimes it just does not find the game with the name of the rom file. You could try to scrape these games in interactive mode and manually select the games that match your rom files.

(2015-03-19, 19:30)user3000 Wrote: This is a bit far-fetched but seeing most of us having problems with scraping due to rom names and broken script, can we pick one naming standard like No-Intro for cartridges and Redump for cd based games?
That way we can share nfo files and boxarts with each other and don't have to worry about fixing wrong online scrapping entries which consume lots of time.
Since there are only finite rom sets and systems out there we can have a central place to share all the arts and nfo files of all the systems without having each and everyone of us scrapping the same system over and over again.
Thought?

(2015-03-19, 23:15)ldavet Wrote:

(2015-03-19, 19:30)user3000 Wrote: This is a bit far-fetched but seeing most of us having problems with scraping due to rom names and broken script, can we pick one naming standard like No-Intro for cartridges and Redump for cd based games?
That way we can share nfo files and boxarts with each other and don't have to worry about fixing wrong online scrapping entries which consume lots of time.
Since there are only finite rom sets and systems out there we can have a central place to share all the arts and nfo files of all the systems without having each and everyone of us scrapping the same system over and over again.
Thought?

I support no-intro. GoodMerge format for example has too much junk among the good stuff.

(2015-03-20, 00:07)geopgin Wrote: I thought it would be a bigger win to get a api to support crc's. I posted this here but never got a response, also i may have misread the the thread from the gamesdb in supporting crc's.

(2015-03-20, 01:17)user3000 Wrote:

(2015-03-20, 00:07)geopgin Wrote: I thought it would be a bigger win to get a api to support crc's. I posted this here but never got a response, also i may have misread the the thread from the gamesdb in supporting crc's.

The issues I have with online scrapping are:
1 - scrap wrong game
2 - broken script
3 - inconsistent image quality and sizes

For those that only have a couple of dozen games it should be manageable. But to those that have hundreds and even the whole game collection it becomes a chore to go back and fix all the incorrect matches.
Sites like emumovies and hyperspin already have the complete set of artworks and trailer videos all in excellent quality and same sizes.
Thanks to offline scraping I was able to use those for my game boxes and trailers. The only online scrapping I need is for the game infos. And that is a hassle.
I know this is out of malte's hand but if we can decide to go with one naming standard (eg No-Intro) and have a central place where we can share and upload all boxarts, trailers, and nfo files naming with that standard then we all would have a perfect system without worrying about online scrapping

(2015-03-20, 01:34)geopgin Wrote: Thats why i was suggesting having a api like thegamesdb supports crc's. A crc will most likely (but not necessarily) be unique to game. That way if game db updated each of there entries to use the crc's that are used by no-intro, redump, tosec etc... more accurate scrapes would be possible. RCB could grab crc from rom and assuming it was dumped from proper source and done properly it would have a crc that corresponds to one thats is known and stored.

I have a rom collection that after being trimmed to 4000 roms was only getting about 50% of the content associated with the rom. I then found romcenter, that uses db's (dat files) to match rom crcs with proper rom names (from my understanding that is how it works). Romcenter found a huge amount of my roms were named incorrectly...and i'm not just talking about the codes i mean the game names. Once i cleaned them up (using multiple dats per library) RCB went from 50% to like 85 or 90%.

So i'm not suggesting unifying naming isn't a great idea, but good luck getting everybody on board. What would be easier is to pass the console name and crc value to a api and then do a looser compare with the result. At least thats my opinion

EDIT: This post explains how I did it, it took a long time and wasn't perfect but is as good as i was able to get it.

(2015-03-21, 14:59)GOOCHY Wrote: Is there any way for me to hard set art work? Just like click on the selected rom and say, "Here's the path - use this."? The scraper refuses to import the image even though it's named exactly like the rom file and, to be honest, I've put far too much time into simply getting an image to display correctly already.

(2015-03-22, 09:04)Fail$tyle420 Wrote:

(2015-03-21, 14:59)GOOCHY Wrote: Is there any way for me to hard set art work? Just like click on the selected rom and say, "Here's the path - use this."? The scraper refuses to import the image even though it's named exactly like the rom file and, to be honest, I've put far too much time into simply getting an image to display correctly already.

I'm having the SAME issue! I spent a LARGE amount of time compiling boxfront, boxback, screenshot, etc etc for all of my roms. I placed them in appropriate folders and have verified that the images match rom name. I import by local nfo and the info scrapes fine as well as my fanart. Nothing else. So I looked at my fanart and noticed that they were jpgs and all of my other artwork was png. I converted all of my pngs into jpgs and it still won't load my previously downloaded artwork. So, then I tried using local nfo scraper with online scrapers and suddenly the images were populating. Looked in my artwork folder and it downloaded an additional copy of the same artwork I already have....