cannot scrape any images at all with built in scraper. retropie 4.4.1

stoney66

@edmaul69 Known problem with thegamesdb, I went back to my 4.3 build and the problem is still there. I think ES is the same version on latest 4.3 as 4.4.1

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/17904/emulationstation-scraper-saving-html-file-as-image

edmaul69

@stoney66 good to know. thank you. too bad selphs scraper misses a lot of images

RetroJag1

@edmaul69 try a different method for scraping roms, this worked for me.

edmaul69

@retrojag1 i did. Selphs scraper just misses a lot of games.

DarishZone

Got same issue, 64gb card and Retropie 4.4, internal scraper not working anymore (same error), no problems with SSelph.

Edit: Saw the link after, sorry, glad to know is not me.

mitu

You should re-try now, thegamesdb.net folks fixed the issue in the mean time.

edmaul69

@mitu i will try it out. So for the scrapers i thought i needed the roms to have the original names and that way it missed a lot. I tested this with the nes roms. So when i put the roms with all the junk removed so they only have the games names on them and the scraper worked way better. Besides hacks it only missed a couple games.

DarishZone

I can confirm it works now.

quicksilver

@edmaul69 I love your monitor ed!

edmaul69

@quicksilver they sell this tv at target. I bought it because of the look. It is overpriced and only has one hdmi. So i have to use an hdmi switch box.

quicksilver

@edmaul69 Wow, I guess they know they can still market it to people like us :)

edmaul69

@quicksilver yes us nostalgic people will buy anything.

DarishZone

One thing sadly the scraper still give me some odd error resizing image, not the disk full error message, it exit to terminal and should reboot via SSH, seems some roms image could trigger this obnoxious process.

quicksilver

@darishzone are you scraping a folder?

DarishZone

@quicksilver said in cannot scrape any images at all with built in scraper. retropie 4.4.1:

@darishzone are you scraping a folder?

Yes, is it relevant?

mitu

@darishzone said in cannot scrape any images at all with built in scraper. retropie 4.4.1:

Yes, is it relevant?

Yes, there was a bug in ES for folder scraping that was fixed a few months back, but can't recall if the changes have been commited to the stable branch or only on the dev branch. Since you didn't specify what version of ES/RetroPie you have installed, you should first try to update your installation and see if you can reproduce the error.

DarishZone

Ok, sorry for the lack of info, i'm running ES V2.7.5 and RetroPie 4.4.1, thank you very much for the help!

mitu

@darishzone said in cannot scrape any images at all with built in scraper. retropie 4.4.1:

i'm running ES V2.7.5 and RetroPie 4.4.1,

Ok, this means you already have the latest stable ES version.
I have checked and the folder scraping fix seems to be only on the development branch.
If you want to get rid of the scraping error and not wait for the next stable version, then you can install the emulationstation-dev package from the Experimental section of the RetroPie setup. This will compile it from source, so the installation will take some time, but it will get you the version with the fix.

DarishZone

Thank you!