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[sselph]

I have written a scraper that could do this. The default behavior is to download metadata and use the No-Intro name and existing image if available, but you could trick it in to just generating a xml with the file name and image.

I’ll give the instructions for the rpi if you have a rpi2 just replace rpi with rpi2 in the first 2 commands. Also replace snes with whatever system you want to work with:

wget https://github.com/sselph/scraper/releases/download/v0.6.5-beta/scraper_rpi.zip
$ sudo unzip scraper_rpi.zip scraper -d /usr/local/bin/
$ touch /tmp/hash.csv
$ cd ~/RetroPie/roms/snes
$ mkdir images

Copy all your images into this images folder. The script assumes the file names will be .jpg. If you don’t want to have all your images in the rom folder you can pass the desired image path to both the -image_dir and -image_path parameters.
$ scraper -hash_file /tmp/hash.csv -add_not_found -image_suffix=""

You will see tons of log entries about not finding any hashes. That is expected. When it is finished you should have a gamelist with just the file, image, and name which is the file name minus the file extension. I haven’t tested this but it should work.