Scraper blues

challenger2010

Maybe an easy answer. I scraped my arcade roms, now I want to manually change a few names. I changed it in the meta data, hit save, reboot, but it didn't save it. Am I missing something? Also, if I want to just erase the srcaped data and go back to just the original rom names, how do I do that? I made an image earlier if this gets to complicated.

Thanks a ton!

rbaker

@challenger2010 Did you make sure that you quit out of Emulation station before scraping? Failure to do so could result in a failure to save.

briankross

@challenger2010 said in Scraper blues:

Maybe an easy answer. I scraped my arcade roms, now I want to manually change a few names. I changed it in the meta data, hit save, reboot, but it didn't save it. Am I missing something? Also, if I want to just erase the srcaped data and go back to just the original rom names, how do I do that? I made an image earlier if this gets to complicated.

Thanks a ton!

I came across this in the wiki:

Scraper Not Saving Manual Edits

If you are having issues with your metadata changes not being saved, you need to select Quit EmulationStation from the quit menu rather than shutdown or restart system. Then your changes will be saved.

Note that this issue was fixed with RetroPie 3.4

With that said, I'm assuming you're using 3.8.x, you're hopefully using Steven Selph's Scraper. You can choose the name to display for your ROMs.

No-Intro: Rom Name (USA) (Rev 1)
theGamesDB: Rom Name
FileName: Rom Name [U] [!]

See if there is anything in the wiki that may help.

I've not tried scraping then manually saving data.

dragon

I was searching for an answer to this for a while myself before I figured it out on my own. I'm running version 4 of RetroPie and dispite it being mentioned that the Scraper was fixed in a previous version, I still had some troubleshooting to do. What I found in the error logs is the XML file wasn't able to be written to... in my case, they didn't exist at all, so I wrote this Bash script to create a basic XML file to start it off. After running, hopefully the built in Scraper for RetroPie will be able to save all your data.

#!/bin/bash
#RetroPie gamelist.xml setup
#by Nathaniel Dragon on 2017-02-04
for d in ~/RetroPie/roms/*; do
if [ ! -f $d/gamelist.xml ]; then
echo "Make gamelist.xml in $d"
echo '<?xml version="1.0"?><gameList />' > $d/gamelist.xml
else
echo "$d already has a file."
fi
done
#Enjoy!

I know that not everyone trying to get this to work is a programmer, although, you probably have already found out something about scripts on Linux. In case you've never written or run a Bash script before, save that code in a file on your RaspberryPi as something like "setup.sh" and then make it executable with "chmod 755 setup.sh" and finally run with "./setup.sh" ...