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I used the existing steam port of HL2 to add its episodes and now Portal. Runs on Knulli.

A thing that always bugged me, was that PortMaster installed games come with no meta data, even though PortMaster displays info and screenshots in their app.

And most scrapers can’t help, since there’s nothing for them to match against. So I looked at what PortMaster stores on the SD card and I found gold.

Based on it I built a simple scraper which reads that and fills in your gamelist.xml, so the Ports menu looks like the rest of your library.

Setup is simple:. Copy one .sh into roms/ports, launch it once from the Ports menu, done. After that it runs itself whenever you exit PortMaster, so new ports get scraped automatically. It’s dry-run by default, backs up your gamelist, and won’t overwrite anything you already scraped.
It also adds itself as an entry into your ports folder, in case you want to scrape it manually.

I tested it on my RG40XXH with KNULLI Gladiator 2 but should work on any Anbernic running KNULLI/Batocera.

I’d love to hear if it does (or doesn’t) on yours.
If you are interested:

https://github.com/LennartHennigs/knulli-portmaster-scraper

Any suggestions on how to clean/up front maintenance before I unwrap the mixtape to be?

This is a Nordmende 3010 - a German brand.
This one must be from the 80s.