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08-12-2020 at 12:54 PM
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Raspberry Pi: Scraping Images
In the Raspberry Pi emulation world, most of the major front ends support the scraping of media files in order to make the display menu more interesting. Box art, marquees, game play videos, they are all available to augment your collection of roms.
These files have been collected and tweaked by the community for years. Various databases exist to help people find any missing files they have.
The scraping features included with RecalBox are broken, so I had to find another alternative. What I discovered is a program called Skraper.
Using Skraper is a piece of cake. Point it at your ROMS folder and it will examine what you have, and download what is missing. Here are some samples:
