Can't scrape from thegamesdb.net - known problem?
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@mitu my PI is a version before 4.4 i didnt update cause i didnt need too since all the games i run are 8 and 16 bit, is there anyways to fix this without updating it?... im sure it will screw thing up right?
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@nestor1924 updating retropie-setup then updating emulationstation isnt going to screw anything up. Why do you think it will?
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@nestor1924 It's enough to update just Emulationstation if you want the fix for the scraping error. Updating the rest of the emulators won't hurt either, as @edmaul69 said.
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Is it possible to manually scrape, e.g. by logging into screenscraper.fr or something? Never really found out how, but my scraper refuses to scrape a few games, and I'm just getting fed up now :)
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@andershp Which scraper are you talking about ? The built-in ES scraper uses thegamesdb.net, not screenscraper.fr.
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@edmaul69 because i thought that it would update it to 4.4 aswell and when the update came out people where sugested to do a fresh install of yhe firmware, which is the option thaf would update it to 4.4 ? just so that i can avoid it
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@mitu Sorry, getting OT here, it's Universal XML Scraper I'm using. But nevertheless - any place to scrape manually online, if your scraper refuses to scrape a few games?
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@andershp I guess you could always get the media from the site you wish, save if on your Pi and them manually edit the gamelist.xml and point to it.
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@mitu i updated the retropie setup script and still not working? What did i do wromg?
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@nestor1924 you also need to update emulation station under core packages. The newest version of ES fixes the scraper
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@lostless but like i said before i have not update my retropie, mine its 4.3, if i do will there be an issue with my system?
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@nestor1924 Backup your sd card, then upgrade the ES package only. If anything doesn't work, then you'll have the backup. IMHO if your last full update was after October last year, then you shouldn't have a problem.
Note that there isn't any problem for you to upgrade to 4.4 from the RetroPie setup script, for the moment the OS you're using (Raspbian Jessie) is still supported by Retropie. This will change in the future though and probably at some point you should also upgrade the OS with the new RetroPie image.
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@nestor1924 no there is no issue with updating emulation station
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I updated es. I have retro pie 4.4 and the gamesdB scraper built in still isn't finding anything for me. Any help?
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@orehruoy Are you connected to the internet ? What is the Emulationstation version ? What game do you try to scrape and is not found ?
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@mitu
Yes its connected over WiFi and I transferred games that way so it's ok. I am not sure of the ES version but I literally just updated it. I did over Binary first then Source since I didn't know if one was better. I then went to scrape. I tried SNES games (I have a lot and there are popular ones there too.) and it couldn't find any it said. -
@orehruoy Press Start and the ES menu will show up, the version is at the bottom of the menu.
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Thank you guys i was able to fix it and I had no idea that there was an option to update only the ES package!
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@nestor1924 Each package can be individually updated, not only ES. Glad you got it sorted out.
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@orehruoy
Ignore my post. I must not have reset after updating so it didn't take effect yet. Working now though.
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