New dat generation script

README.md

@@ -95,9 +95,9 @@ Now we just have to tell the script to generate the dat file (this will take aro
 For this example the command would be
 
 ~~~
-    [thomas@HackBox libretro-dat-pull]$ python2 generate-libretrodat.py 38 '{"game":{"rom":{"serial":"romSerial","image":"romFileName"},"name":"romExtensionlessFileName","description":"romExtensionlessFileName"}}' ps.dat
+[thomas@HackBox libretro-dat-pull]$ ./generate-dat.py 38 '{"game":{"rom":{"serial":"romSerial","image":"romFileName"},"name":"romExtensionlessFileName","description":"romExtensionlessFileName"}}' ps
 ~~~
 You can even add multiple dictionaries the syntax is
 ~~~
-python2 generate-libretrodat.py sqlite id string1 string1.dat string2 string2.dat
+python2 generate-libretrodat.py sqlite id string1 string2 system_dat_prefix
 ~~~

generate-libretrodat.py

@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-import sys,ast,re
-import openvgdb
-
-string='{"game":{"rom":{"serial":"romSerial","image":"romFileName"},"name":"romExtensionlessFileName","description":"romExtensionlessFileName"}}'
-par=ast.literal_eval(string)
-games=[]
-game=[]
-val='game'
-
-def fix(foo):
-    old=chr(int('0A',16))
-    new=chr(int('0D',16))+chr(int('0A',16))
-    return re.sub('('+old+')',new,foo)
-
-def parse(a,level,nnl=False):
-    ret=[]
-    last=[]
-    check=['crc','md5','sha1','serial']
-    for entry in a:
-        if type(a[entry])==type({}) and entry=="game":
-            last.append("\t"*level+str(entry)+" (\n")
-            last.append(parse(a[entry],level+1))
-            last.append("\t"*level+")\n")
-        elif type(a[entry])==type({}) and entry=="rom":
-            last.append("\t%s ( " % (str(entry)) )
-            last.append(parse(a[entry],level,True))
-            last.append(")\n")
-        else:
-            value=game[a[entry]]
-            if type(value)==type(42) or entry in check:
-                if nnl==False:
-                    ret.append("\t"*level+str(entry)+" "+str(value)+" ")
-                else:
-                    ret.append(str(entry)+" "+str(value)+" ")
-            else:
-                try:
-                    if nnl==False:
-                        ret.append("\t"*level+str(entry)+' "'+str(value).encode('utf-8')+"\"")
-                    else:
-                        ret.append(str(entry)+' "'+str(value).encode('utf-8')+"\" ")
-                except:
-                    print 'Couldn\'t parse'
-                    print value
-        if nnl==False:
-            #check if we need a newline
-            ret.append("\n")
-    return "".join(ret)+"".join(last)
-
-if len(sys.argv)%2!=0:
-    print 'Something is wrong.Check your parameters again (the count is off)'
-    quit()
-
-O=openvgdb.vgdb('openvgdb.sqlite')
-print 'Getting the game list.This can take a while...'
-header="clrmamepro (\n\
-\tname \""+O.get_systems()[int(sys.argv[1])]+"\"\n\
-)\n"
-games=O.get_console(sys.argv[1])
-print 'Done.Starting to convert'
-#print game
-#print parse(par,0)
-#f.write(parse(par,0))
-#quit()
-
-
-for i in range(0,(len(sys.argv)-2)/2):
-    string=sys.argv[2+i*2]
-    par=ast.literal_eval(string)
-    f=open(sys.argv[3+i*2],"w")
-    print 'writing '+sys.argv[3+i*2]
-    f.write(fix(header))
-    for game in games:
-        f.write(fix(parse(par,0)))
-    f.close()
-print 'Done everything went according to plan'