I’ve bumped up my SD card size and am enjoying scraping (mostly from screenscraper.fr) the videos for the games in the various systems. It means I can go into a game system and then scroll through the games and see the video intros for the various games. It adds a great new nostalgic experience.
However, there’s no such scraping option it seems for PORTS.
I guess it has to be done manually so does anybody know where I should place PORTS game videos and how to call them (as can’t see a scraping option for it which typically just automatically makes the required edits for the videos to appear)??
I have asked this myself some time ago. Would be really nice, if even the port-section would have/support videos as preview. Seems its not supported, due fact i could not found something like a “port section” on the screenscrapper website/db.
Probally you really have to do it manually yourself. I did no spend a depper look into this until now.
Yes, I don’t mind doing it manually but haven’t got any idea what to edit. It’s presumably something in the gamefile.xml in each individual game folder in the ports folder but I tried replicating that with the html video tag and path to video, but it didn’t work.
Anybody know a manual edit to get the preview videos working? Finding sample videos of these games is pretty easy, so it’s just a case of knowing how to reference them to appear in the video preview.
You need to open the ports /storage/roms/ports_scripts/gamelist.xml and add the videos mentioned there in the <video> part for each port.
Example for 2048: <video>./videos/2048.mp4</video> just post the video inside a videos directory in the same place as the gamelist.xml and name it 2048.mp4
I noticed ‘ports_scripts’ was empty folder on ‘eeroms/ports_scripts’ but when connect through box on sftp I can see contents of ports_scripts and also could see a gameslist.xml file in ports_scripts. Adding a videos folder and placing videos in there and being sure the path works from the gameslist file in ports_scripts folder worked perfectly.
