Generate a curated collection of the best BBC Micro games.
Downloads the top (most played) games and their screenshots from The Complete BBC Micro Games Archive, and creates a gamelist.xml for EmulationStation (used in Batocera, RetroPie, Recalbox and other distributions).
The result is a curated collection of the most popular BBC Micro games, which display nicely in EmulationStaton.
Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/mas94uk/BestOfBeeb.git
cd BestOfBeeb
Create a virtual environment with the dependencies:
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
Run the script to download the top 50 (or however many) games:
./creategamelist.py 50
Copy the contents of the output directory to your EmulationStation roms/bbc directory.