EmuCleaning

This code is currently a mess. It needs a lot of cleanup.

Setup for developement:

• Setup Sqlite sudo apt install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
• Setup a python 3.x venv (usually in .venv)
• pip3 install --upgrade pip
• Install pip-tools pip3 install pip-tools
• Update dev requirements: pip-compile --output-file=requirements.dev.txt requirements.dev.in
• Update requirements: pip-compile --output-file=requirements.txt requirements.in
• Install dev requirements pip3 install -r requirements.dev.txt
• Install requirements pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• pre-commit install

Run pre-commit locally.

pre-commit run --all-files

Create baseline secrets file

detect-secrets scan > .secrets.baseline

To write a Pegasus Front-end metadata-pegasus.txt file

Code is in the Pegasus folder.

You'll need to set the following environment variables:

IGDB_CLIENT_ID="..."
IGDB_API_KEY="..."
STEAM_GRID_DB_API_KEY="..."

You'll need to get these from their respective sources. They're free.

To get dat files:

Datomatic files are used to check the hashes of ROMs and get clean names for them.

• Go to the daily page: https://datomatic.no-intro.org/index.php?page=download&s=64&op=daily
• Checkmark all the stuff you want and download
• Currently, everything is hard coded, you'll need to modify the file locations in: game_db/no_intro_db.py

To get arcade info files:

• Go to http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/lista_mame.php and then click options and then download the Detailed CSV. Don't filter on anything so you can grab everything.
• Extract the file and name it ./database/arcade.csv

Convert GamesDB sqldump to sqlite3

• Run the setup.sh script in the root. it should take care of it.

Adding assets from https://emumovies.com

• In the folder that has the roms for a given platform
• Add a .assets folder
• In there, add the following folders for whatever assets you have:
  • background: AKA fanarts
  • box_back: Back of boxes
  • box_front: Front of boxes
  • box_full: The whole box front/back/side
  • box_spine: The spine (side) of the box
  • cart: What the cart looks like
  • cart_label: Just the carts label
  • logo: Clear logos (png)
  • music: Music for the game (I'm not sure any themes support this)
  • screenshot: Game screenshot
  • titlescreen: Game's titlescreen
  • video: A video snap

Convert PSX bin/cue to chd

This is something I wrote a while back to clean up zipped bin/cue files and convert them to chd.
Everything runs in a container.

• It's in the ./docker folder
• Modify the docker-compose.yml to point to your zipped bin/cue files
• Build the container
• Run the container

rom_collection_browser

This work is dead.