LaunchBox with ScreenScraper?

[Job76]

Hi, 

I'm trying to use screenscraper for scraping my games, and import these into LaunchBox.  I have set ScreenScraper to use LaunchBox and the path is correct. LaunchBox does not seem to accept these xml files, but it does accept the images. 

So if I scrape the games, an xml file is created under platform(?) (I can't rememeber now), but LB does not use this... No games becomes available.  If I import ROMs first in LaunchBox, an XML-file is created in the same place with the same name, and the games becomes available in LB, but without images (I am not using the internal scraper). However, if I then shutdown LB and scrape the games with screenscraper, and restart LB, I have the correct images that I want (the composite images from screen scraper), but LB does not seem to use any other information that the images. 

I have set screenscraper to autohide some roms depending on the name in the files (like bios and unl, pirate etc.), and I can see that SS does auto hide, and auto favorite, games from my settings but LB does not use these settings! ? ? Many of the game that where set to hide is still visible in LB, and I need to manually go thru the list and hide them.  

Is there any way to force LB to use the XML-file created by SS to auto add the games and use the information like hide in it? 

Ps. I am using LB 13.11 since 13.12 keeps crashing for me.

many thanks,

Johan

 

[Retro808]

No, you cannot force LB to use Screenscrapers xaml file. Screenscraper files have been known to cause issues with LB, but you can try to use this tool made by one of our devs

 

[Job76]

ok, thank you! I have downloaded it, and will try it during the weekend. 

[Job76]

I tested the tool, but I do not really know how to use it! Please remember that I posted in the noobs category 😉   

Anyway, I solved it partially by using two different installations of LB.   I have screenscraper scraping to a non-used LB installation, and using the other LB to scrape all "normal" meta data and images.  Once SS is finished, I simply copies all images from the non-used installation to the other installations, and sets the priority of the images to select the "game-select" image as top priority. That seems to work. I have ScreenScrapers composite images on 99,5% of the games in my LB installation.  A few seems to be missing and uses the default LB image.  I thought that I would update my post in case anyone else is searching for information on the same problem.  I still have to hide unwanted games manually, but I downloaded a custom dat file from the no-intro website, so I have already eliminated many of the unwanted roms.