Scraping a Website for High-Quality ROMs Using Python

Written by avcourt | Published 2019/09/16
Tech Story Tags: python-programming | linux | web-development | gaming | hacking | python | scraping | programming

TLDR The site simply has a list of links that take you to the file itself. Fortunately, ROM enthusiasts use suffixes to denote the status of roms: Alternate [p] Pirate [b] Bad Dump (avoid these, they may not work!) [t] Trained [f] Fixed [T-] Old translation [T+] Newer translation [h] Hack (-) Unknown Year [o] Overdump [!] Verified Good Dump [M #) Multilanguage (# of Languages) Checksum (??k) ROM Size ZZZ_ Unclassified (Unl) Unlicensedvia the TL;DR App

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Written by avcourt | Software Developer from Winnipeg, Canada. andrewvcourt.com
Published by HackerNoon on 2019/09/16