I can confirm that what I did with the combination of the files actually works. Now I just need to do some scraping using Screenscraper instead of The GamesDatabase for now. Thanks again for all the help. 😁

@mitu said in Scraping in EmulationStation not working..:

Please add more info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
What scraping source are you using ? There are 2 options in EmulationStation - TheGamesDB and ScreenScraper - and the former is not functional at the moment.

Do you know when TheGamesDB will be functional again?

This is from the website:
"Update:
due to certain family commitments, we were not able to get the latest backup as of yet.
for now, we're using a READ ONLY old backup, and the API is also back online,
but using the prefix /v1/ which is both to get devs to explicitly make sure old data doesn't just crash their apps,
but this prefix will remain as our main endpoint for this api going forward (aka once latest backup is restored)"

Is this something we can change? Change it to use the prefix v1, whatever that means xD

Can also confirm it works on pi 4, thanks mitu

TriggerHappy kicks a$$ .. thanks for pointing it out

@Dj-EKI If you'd like that combo to open the menu, then open RetroArch from the RetroPie system in EmulationStation, set the option and then save your configuration.
To leave a game, you'll have to use either a Hotkey + Start - which you don't want - or disable the Hotkey and choose another button for the exit hotkey. Pressing that button will automatically exit the game.

@mitu for example

I am going to change the button layout for Alien Storm for the Sega Megadrive

I have started the game
Entered the RGUI menu
Go to controls
Set the buttons up accordingly
I click on save core remap file in the controls menu
I have the message "remap file saved successfully"
I resume the game
The buttons work perfectly
I exit the game back to the game selection menu
Restart the ROM
And it works perfectly.

I don't believe this. It has worked. The problem was I was saving using the "save core override" option when I should have been using the "save core remap file" in the controls screen.

Thank you so much for everything Mitu. No doubt I will encounter another problem where you can rescue me again. Thank you and have a nice day my friend.

@Dj-EKI map z to left trigger I believe

@roslof I agree. It can probably be done on retropie. I run space invaders with the mame2016 core via retroarch.

SOLVED!- it was in the coding- I had buttons double-coded so to speak and had a bunch assigned to R_X/Y plus&minus (input_player1_r_x_plus_btn = "5" for example) as well as what they should've been assigned. HUGE weight off my back- I've been poking around like a blind squirrel.

@quicksilver Thank you very much, after removing the # in the config, it boots perfectly now.

I know this is quite old but maybe someone can point me in the right direction. I am trying to set this up again using a new pi 3 and RetroPie 4.5.1. I get the same thing, emulationstation doesn't see the controller but it looks fine running the jstest program. What can I do to allow the controller to be used in RetroPie.

@mitu Yes, on Windows it works normally. Anyway, thanks for your help. I'll try to find more information all over google.

@niners4952 Note that the Pi4 support is still in a work in progress, so you'll have to perform a manual installation (https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Manual-Installation/). Even so, expect some things not to work or have bugs.

@jackpage43088 https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

You're welcome here but please install RetroPie from our site. We can't (nor want to) support a modification of our software provided by someone else.

It's against the licenses of software included in RetroPie for it to be sold or included with a commercial product.

Rpi4 support is still being worked on. It's not officially supported yet and many/most of the images out there are hacks also and don't implement things correctly.