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Version 3.12.0 (TBA)

  • Added: Support for scraping of PDF manuals (Modules screenscraper, import and esgamelist) and gamelist output with these manuals for frontends (ES-DE Frontend, some EmulationStation variants). See configurations options manuals=true and gameListVariants=enable-manuals. Thanks for the initial PR, @pandino
  • Added: Present also release year as hint. This is useful when in interactive mode and more than one game with the same name is found. Skyscraper can be guided to prefer a specific game when the release year is added in parenthesis as part of the ROM name (or alias in aliasMap.csv). Thanks @mjkaye
  • Changed: Persistent config option for counting and scraping only games which have no game data in the cache. This is a commodity to the already existing flag with the same name. If you use a scraper with a scraping limit for games to be scraped at once (e.g. MobyGames). Documentation here. Thanks for the suggestion, @sleve_mcdichael

Version 3.11.0 (2024-04-15)

  • Added: Support for EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE Frontend). Use frontend=esde in config.ini and see documentation on the default settings. Thanks for the hints and for testing, @maxexcloo, @Nargash
  • Added: Entries in aliasMap.csv are now also applicable for Screenscraper. Thanks, @retrobit.
  • Added: Enhanced game name detection for ScummVM platform.
  • Changed: In module Screenscraper, in some cases if multiple media types are queried (NB: most queries are single-typed), now the first type is selected with the first matching region. Only if this does exists in any provided region, try the next type with all provided regions (in short: type has precedence over region). Previously the regions have been tried to match on any media type (=region had precedence over type), which resulted in picking the alternative type. This approach gave less suitable media files, especially for screenshots (type:ss) and screenshot from title screen (type: sstitle).
  • Fixed: Some corner-case bugs fixed, thanks to all reporters!

Version 3.10.0 (2024-02-10)

  • Feature: Preserve existing <folder/> nodes in gamelist or create skeleton <folder/> nodes when ROMs are stored in subfolders within a system folder, see frontend documentation and the gamelist specification.
  • Feature: Bash Completion on Linux installations. Use ++tab++ twice for completion of Skyscraper options. On RetroPie the scriptmodule will handle the installation. On non-RetroPie-Linux put the file supplementary/bash-completion/Skyscraper.bash into $XDG_DATA_HOME/bash-completion/completions/ ($XDG_DATA_HOME is equivalent to $HOME/.local/share). Open a new bash -- et voila!
  • Feature: Customizable installation folder when running make install. See PREFIX in skyscraper.pro.
  • Feature: Improved MacOS support. Unified update script update_skyscraper.sh (thanks, @jeantichoc) and Docker support via Dev Container (kudos, @retrobit).
  • Fix: Various minor fixes reported from the community on different setups, thanks!

2023-12-01 (Version 3.9.2)

  • Feature: Import of data in XML format is now more lax (does not rely on strict identical indention). Read also the hint here
  • Feature: Configuration option tidyDesc added. See documentation here
  • Feature: Documentation reviewed and hosted with mkdocs for ease of access. See here
  • Update: Added index of configuration parameters to CONFIGINI.md. Details see here
  • Update: Refactored skyscraper.cpp class. Factorised configuration settings into settings.cpp
  • Update: Various other refactorings to remove duplicated code
  • Fix: Quit Skyscraper when neither -p <PLATFORM> nor --cache help nor --flags help is provided
  • Fix: Warning remediated when NULL image was applied in composer/gamebox rendering

2023-10-22 (Version 3.9.1)

  • Feature: Mobygames scraper genres limited to two most relevant genre categories ('Basic Genre' and 'Gameplay')
  • Update: Removed legacy and unused code
  • Update: Code formatting (LLVM)
  • Fix: TGDB scraper retrieves screens from screenshot/ and as well screenshots/ URL path as some platforms (supported since configurable platforms) have their screenshots served from screenshots/.

2023-10-20 (Version 3.9.0)

  • Feature: Mobygames scraper respects game id from mobygames.com website via --query=<gameid>. Handy to hint to the right game information when usual search returns false positives.
  • Feature: Scrapers which provide an web API (Screenscraper, Mobygames, The Games DB (tgdb)) have the full platform information shipped with this release (see <scraper>_platforms.json files). These files are used as reference.
  • Feature: Less 'aliases' maintenance needed in former platforms.json.
  • Update: Streamlined external platform configuration. File platforms.json is replaced by peas.json (platforms, extensions/formats, aliases and scrapers). Precise platform determination for Screenscraper, Mobygames and TGDB via platform_idmap.csv See platforms documentation for details.
  • Fix: Failed media download when TGDB provides PNG files instead of JPG files and vice versa.
  • Update: Scriptmodule for this Skyscraper now official part of RetroPie.

2023-09-23 (Version 3.8.1.2309)

  • Feature: OpenRetro scraper retrieves now also score/rating, if available for a game. Precedence is to use reviews from external websites first (right header), then the Score label (above the game details). See this example
  • Feature: Additionally to the existing import with rating values of 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5 ... 5 ("Star rating") it is possible to use 0.1 ... 1.0 scale for rating in import files (EmulationStation gamelist.xml internal rating range). See also import formats
  • Fix: Wrong score/rating calculation from Mobygames scraper / Mobygames API. See also this gist on how to update your existing Skyscraper db.xml files.
  • Fix: Use of --query free-text search in OpenRetro scraper fixed. This bug did not occur when the switch is ommitted and an Amiga WHDLoad file is provided to Skyscraper.
  • Fix: RetroPie Scriptmodule, removed surplus boolean negation (Thanks @s1eve-mcdichae1)
  • Fix: RetroPie Scriptmodule, fixed use of legacy option --unattend (Thanks @windg)
  • Update: RetroPie Scriptmodule, relaxed the remove function of the scriptmodule to not zap the Skyscraper cache. Plus various cleanups.

2023-09-15 (Version 3.8.0.2309)

  • updated mamemap.csv from MAME 0.240 (Arcade).dat, fbneo.dat, mame2003-plus.xml and cleanup of surplus device information
  • update script for make mamemap.csv does no longer rely on mame binary
  • removed discontinued *.php scripts
  • platforms.json sorted and formatted
  • updated documentation especially to reflect the supported platforms
  • scriptmodule file for RetroPie aligned to their naming convention
  • Mobygames platform information refactored from hardwired mobygames.cpp.to mobygames.json

Included Pull Requests

These pull requests from other repos have been merged into this fork.