No-Intro dataset

[mireofthedeep]

Hi! Testing LaunchBox and importing few SNES ROMs just now. Great app, big thanks! Scraping metadata is slow. It is happening, but it is slow. I'm sure sooo many folks have scraped and re-scraped this same data over and over again. Shouldn't we just have a torrent for a Sane Starting Set (tm) of banners, images, screenshots, etc for different platforms? I'm not looking for pirated EmuMovies or some such. That kind of stuff could be downloaded separately. I mean.. Having a game list XML and corresponding set of metadata as a single compressed download (torrent, ftp,..) to match No-Intro sets would be super duper great. Game list for SNES No-Intro could use some sane sorting like "USA > EU > JPN". All you do is acquire the ROM set (legally of course), download the Sane Set of platform metadata, and set paths in LaunchBox to point to these. BOOM: full set. Then anyone who wants to add/remove/change things can easily do that if they so wish. Am I missing something? Does this exist already? Is the LB Game DB trying to monetise this (couldn't really figure it out)? I'm just finding it to be such a waste that everybody scrapes these one-by-one, ends up with few missing items, etc etc. Instructions like these: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/features/launchboxannotator-tool for scraping gamelist.xml's from ROM files sparked my imagination. Folks have created proper full sets. It's just a waste of time for others to try to repeat time and time again.

[SentaiBrad]

So I'm not saying we couldn't do something like this, but with the Database you can get as much or as little as someone needs. We can guarantee speeds that we can't necessarily promise though P2P. Ultimately I think the method we are employing is generally the best way we can go about this and be easy.