Scraping for PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 CD games

MisterXen

I recently encountered this problem myself and found a workaround. Basically, EmulationStation is treating all PCE-CD games as PCE games and looking in a wrong section of the database. To avoid this all we need is a simple editing of es_systems.cfg (make a backup before you do so!):

Boot directly into system, open es_systems.cfg with a text editor: sudo leafpad /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
Find the part regarding PC Engine, change line <platform>pcengine</platform> to <platform>unknown</platform> (or, I suppose, anything isn't listed in the Platform IDs)
Save the file, then reboot into the EmulationStation
Start scraping for PCE-CD games. After you are done, boot into system again and restore es_systems.cfg

By doing this, EmulationStation will search through all games instead of just PCE games. Note this also means your input must be PRECISE. So check thegamesdb.net before you scrape to see how exactly titles of your games are displayed there.

Hope this helps :D

zop78

I tried this method and I did actually find the scraping data in the internal scraper but no image. When trying to save scraping data I got some kind of disk space error.

I currently using Retropie 4.4 with Raspberry pi3. I have an 64gb San disk memory card and there is a lot of free space.

Any advice on scraping pc engine cd Image?

quicksilver

@zop78 there is an issue with the built in scraper being able to connect the games database website. Its not an issue on your end. Hopefully it will be resolved eventually.

zop78

@quicksilver
I don't think it's a problem with gamesdb since I found the very exact image fine with my mobile from there. I think it might be something with the unknown tag.

But are there any other ideas for scraping pc engine cd titles?

quicksilver

@zop78 if you are getting a disk space error it's because it's an issue with the website. The gamesdb website is undergoing some pretty big updates and it's causing issues with the built in scraper. If it were an issue with the scraper not searching the right platform it would just return no results.

zop78

Thank you for the info, I actually tried it third time just now and I got it working.

thelostsoul

I workaround by just editing the xml file after scraping. I may try your suggestion next time.

Mindhral

Sorry to bring up an old post like this, but to complement the solution above, you can set your system to look up for both systems (CD and not CD) but not others in es_systems.cfg : <platform>pcengine pcenginecd</platform>.
I found that from source code but in no documentation, so there is no guaranty it will keep working in case of future code change.