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

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    • stoney66S
      stoney66
      last edited by 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

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      • edmaul69E
        edmaul69 @stoney66
        last edited by

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

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        • RetroJag1R
          RetroJag1 @edmaul69
          last edited by

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

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          • edmaul69E
            edmaul69 @RetroJag1
            last edited by

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

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              DarishZone Banned
              last edited by 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.

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator
                last edited by

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

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                • edmaul69E
                  edmaul69 @mitu
                  last edited by

                  @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.

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                    DarishZone Banned
                    last edited by

                    I can confirm it works now.

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                    • quicksilverQ
                      quicksilver @edmaul69
                      last edited by

                      @edmaul69 I love your monitor ed!

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                      • edmaul69E
                        edmaul69 @quicksilver
                        last edited by

                        @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.

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                        • quicksilverQ
                          quicksilver @edmaul69
                          last edited by

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

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                          • edmaul69E
                            edmaul69 @quicksilver
                            last edited by edmaul69

                            @quicksilver yes us nostalgic people will buy anything.

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                              DarishZone Banned
                              last edited by

                              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.

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                              • quicksilverQ
                                quicksilver @DarishZone
                                last edited by

                                @darishzone are you scraping a folder?

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                                  DarishZone Banned @quicksilver
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                                  @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?

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                                  • mituM
                                    mitu Global Moderator @DarishZone
                                    last edited by

                                    @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.

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                                      DarishZone Banned
                                      last edited by

                                      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!

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                                      • mituM
                                        mitu Global Moderator @DarishZone
                                        last edited by 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.

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                                          DarishZone Banned
                                          last edited by

                                          Thank you!

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