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General / Re: "generate Collection/Rom List" takes VERY long
« on: July 30, 2021, 10:51:24 AM »
I will toos my two chicken wings in here...this is mainly for people that find this later.
As was stated before if you create a list against the gamedb.net it can take a long time...sometimes "forever" (I left mine running one night to make a list of megadrive games...woke up..it is till wasn't done) It all depends on the what ever network issues per say I guess. I tried the same list a day later (26 hours) and I could get it in about a minute.
You can scrape locally and it is FAST..but it's only a half tailed list....
You CAN use a player.ini and a category.ini ect. for making console lists and is it FAST (it's all local). Arcade roms have a standard to make them easy to "scrape" from an xml file but the problem is the naming format for console roms are not. Your roms may not be named exactly as mine are therefore it doesn't pick up those roms or even work at all. After you scrape everything you can make your own custom "information files" and then use them as you see fit however. It's tedious work at best but I can build a fully filled out list without any internet connection at all. But most won't take the time or trouble.
Best thing to do is to backup your lists after you have them built. After that you can pull info from them or even re-use them if needed to save time. Remember the lists are just plain text files separated by semi-colons..so they are TINY and easy to store.
As was stated before if you create a list against the gamedb.net it can take a long time...sometimes "forever" (I left mine running one night to make a list of megadrive games...woke up..it is till wasn't done) It all depends on the what ever network issues per say I guess. I tried the same list a day later (26 hours) and I could get it in about a minute.
You can scrape locally and it is FAST..but it's only a half tailed list....
You CAN use a player.ini and a category.ini ect. for making console lists and is it FAST (it's all local). Arcade roms have a standard to make them easy to "scrape" from an xml file but the problem is the naming format for console roms are not. Your roms may not be named exactly as mine are therefore it doesn't pick up those roms or even work at all. After you scrape everything you can make your own custom "information files" and then use them as you see fit however. It's tedious work at best but I can build a fully filled out list without any internet connection at all. But most won't take the time or trouble.
Best thing to do is to backup your lists after you have them built. After that you can pull info from them or even re-use them if needed to save time. Remember the lists are just plain text files separated by semi-colons..so they are TINY and easy to store.