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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: jedione on August 19, 2018, 06:57:45 AM

Title: overview Q"
Post by: jedione on August 19, 2018, 06:57:45 AM

so im trying to scrape for the Commodore 64  to get the overview's

using AM 2.4   so their now txt files,  use the gamesdb,

all the gama txt files get created, but they are all blank, does this mean they have no info
on any of the games ?   just kind of hard to beleive..

thanks

yay i just tryed with "Arcade" same thing populates but empty txt files....somthing is wrong

also is their an official list for the system identifiers?

Title: Re: overview Q"
Post by: farique on August 21, 2018, 03:46:55 PM

Hi,
Not a direct solution to your problem but if you have the old overviews you can use the program on the link below to convert them to text.

The new overview files must be .txt and be at:
\<Attract Mode>\scraper\<emulator>\overview\<romname>.txt
Copy your old .cfg files there and use the program to convert them.
The program will replace the files so if you want to preserve them, make a backup.

Just be sure to convert them to "Text" and not "New Overview". I made the program without AM2.4 for testing, turns out it wants just plain txt files.

http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2334.msg16111#msg16111

Title: Re: overview Q"
Post by: ryuuji on August 21, 2018, 04:54:06 PM

Weird ... arcade is for mame... have u enabled scrape overviews in the scraper settings? I tried it myself once with mame and the generate romlist created the empty txt files so I assume that you need to select scrape artwork afterwards. I m not really sure

Title: Re: overview Q"
Post by: jedione on August 21, 2018, 05:55:40 PM

thats what im saying...

their is no "enabled scrape overviews in the scraper settings"

but as befor with prior builds...i have set it in the AM .cfg    ie:  scrape_overview      yes

funny thing is now if i go back to an older build and scrape...for overview i will get a
gamesdb error cod 302    bla bla  somthing to do with the way AM acceses the site key or somthing..
not working


so i think their has been a change to the way  gamesdb is linked an verifide   ,,and mabe an AM bug.


thanks for you input...still looking for a cure :D

Title: Re: overview Q"
Post by: progets on August 21, 2018, 06:22:03 PM

FYI - https://github.com/mickelson/attract/issues/471

Title: Re: overview Q"
Post by: ryuuji on August 22, 2018, 05:40:02 AM

you can find a link here to overview files for most systems in txt fileformat http://retrofe.nl/SMF/index.php?topic=289.0

Title: Re: overview Q"
Post by: jedione on August 22, 2018, 06:19:40 AM

Quote from: progets on August 21, 2018, 06:22:03 PM

FYI - https://github.com/mickelson/attract/issues/471

thanks thats it!  will keep tabs to see when it gets fixed...

Title: Re: overview Q"
Post by: jedione on August 22, 2018, 06:25:24 AM

Quote from: ryuuji on August 22, 2018, 05:40:02 AM

you can find a link here to overview files for most systems in txt fileformat http://retrofe.nl/SMF/index.php?topic=289.0

thank you for the link, this is great...

Title: Re: overview Q"
Post by: progets on August 22, 2018, 10:46:51 PM

This issue has been resolved with the latest commit. https://github.com/mickelson/attract/commit/fe39d1c328c2661ece8e048cf28837adca7efa4a (https://github.com/mickelson/attract/commit/fe39d1c328c2661ece8e048cf28837adca7efa4a)

Title: Re: overview Q"
Post by: jedione on August 24, 2018, 07:31:40 PM

thanks...      3 days ago. were,   have i been?