Author Topic: Totally NO WAY to scrape mame rom's real names ( only zip names here )  (Read 6476 times)

superdan

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Hi guys
on raspberry model 3 b and last Attract Mode: Totally NO WAY to scrape mame (advance) roms Complete Name.
I tryied with all scraping services (listxml gamesdb etc. ) but STILL got ONLY rom name.
Same story for NEO GEO.
Any suggestion?
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Re: Totally NO WAY to scrape mame rom's real names ( only zip names here )
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2016, 03:52:03 PM »
Have you created a Mame.xml file and added it to the emulator's settings in Attract Mode?

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Re: Totally NO WAY to scrape mame rom's real names ( only zip names here )
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2016, 06:05:47 AM »
Hi bkaz,
thanks for your reply.
No i dont.
I never heard anything about that?
What is the procedure you are talking about?
Thank you very much,
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Re: Totally NO WAY to scrape mame rom's real names ( only zip names here )
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2016, 12:30:47 PM »
Attractmode can tell mame to generate xml list. Search on the tab menu.

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Re: Totally NO WAY to scrape mame rom's real names ( only zip names here )
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2016, 10:31:29 AM »
I have the same problem.  Anyone can help and give us some steps? 

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Re: Totally NO WAY to scrape mame rom's real names ( only zip names here )
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2016, 01:15:34 PM »
I think this is because on the pi people are using runcommand instead of mame directly.  By default when you run "Generate romlist" for mame in attract-mode, it tries to run the configured emulator with the "-listxml" parameter, (so "mame -listxml") to get full game names.  I expect this won't work with runcommand configured.

As a workaround, you can generate a mame xml file yourself outside of the frontend with the command:

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mame -listxml > mame.xml

Then in the frontend's emulator configuration, put the full path to that mame.xml file into the "Additional Import File(s)" field.  Attract-mode should then pick it up and use it to replace the zipfile names with the proper names when you run "Generate romlist"

I hope this helps