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TapiocaFox
Pre-define media folders instead of scraping
Hi there,
I am thinking about switching over from Pegasus, but I am a little weary of scraping double, as I have already scraped everything once before. Am I able to define a folder where daijishou is already able to fetch the media without scraping? That would save quite a lot of trouble!
Also, it would sove space issue as you could move thumbnails on an sdcard (as I have 2.33 gb worth of game thimbnails now).
If this is to much of an hassle to implement, at least add real time thumbnail downloading.
This would be super useful for those of us that already have everything set up, especially with rom hacks and homebrew roms as those almost never get scraped and we have to configure it's boxart manually
Of course. BTW you guys are using skyscrapers? If so what kind of setup and config are you guys using. How are your workflows look like?
In my case I use Skraper on windows with the generic emulation frontend selection, and I have it configured so it only scrape what I want (boxart, snapshot and title). By default it downloads everything in subfolders inside each one of the roms folder, for example the nes, by default boxarts goes in /roms/nes/media/box3d, snapshots goes in /roms/nes/media/images and titles go in /roms/nes/media/screenshottitle, and the scraped images are named exactly the same as the rom file. With rom hacks as they almost never scrape anything I just add the images manually to their corresponding folder and with the same name as the rom file.
From there I just have to copy the scraped images to their corresponding folders on my different devices.
On my RP2+ currently I only use thumbnails with RetroArch, but I'd love to be able to use them with Daijishō because I already have them, including those for rom hacks and homebrew.
What could be made is to allow us to choose a folder for each platform from where the frontend can take the images as long as they are named the same as the rom file, the subfolder names could be a fixed name defined by you and we'll just need to rename our subfolders to match them with your defined names.
And thanks for creating this frontend, It's the best that I've used and it works perfectly on my RP2+ and on my phone.
In my case I use Skraper on windows with the generic emulation frontend selection, and I have it configured so it only scrape what I want (boxart, snapshot and title). By default it downloads everything in subfolders inside each one of the roms folder, for example the nes, by default boxarts goes in /roms/nes/media/box3d, snapshots goes in /roms/nes/media/images and titles go in /roms/nes/media/screenshottitle, and the scraped images are named exactly the same as the rom file. With rom hacks as they almost never scrape anything I just add the images manually to their corresponding folder and with the same name as the rom file.
From there I just have to copy the scraped images to their corresponding folders on my different devices.
On my RP2+ currently I only use thumbnails with RetroArch, but I'd love to be able to use them with Daijishō because I already have them, including those for rom hacks and homebrew.
What could be made is to allow us to choose a folder for each platform from where the frontend can take the images as long as they are named the same as the rom file, the subfolder names could be a fixed name defined by you and we'll just need to rename our subfolders to match them with your defined names.
And thanks for creating this frontend, It's the best that I've used and it works perfectly on my RP2+ and on my phone.
Thanks. It is very well explained. I will see if I can do in the 1.4 version. I will reproduce the process you’ve described myself after finishing personal stuffs. Much obliged.
https://github.com/regiimoep/setting-up-pegasus Just to quickly add to this discussion, the Readme I have here also described the workflow I follow, I normally also use Skraper to get my media onto the PC first, then copy the media on my device (like the Odin). The folder structure is also roms/%systemname%/media/%mediatype%