Steven Selph's Scraper Minor Issue

retropieting

I'm using Steven Selph's Scraper and when scraping, it includes the Retropie system menu. It add some lines (like Player, Unknown, Unknown) before the description of the individual menu options making it messy to look. I check the gamelist.xml for retropie in \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation & can't seem to find any line related to it. Not like in roms individual gamelist.xml where I can see player, date release, developer, lines added & can easily be remove in case you don't like it. Is there any way I can remove those lines? Thank you.

mitu

@retrofitting Check the ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/retropie/ folder for a gamelist.xml file and - if present - delete it.

retropieting

As I mentioned above I check the gamelist.xml for retropie in \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation which is the same path you mentioned but I can't see those line in there.

mitu

Ah, I forgot about the RetroPie system - I think ES might show the info even if no gamelist is present, regardless if you scraped or not the system. Worth checking in ~/RetroPie/roms/retropie and make sure there's no gamelist.xml present there.

retropieting

Before scraping with sselph's scraper, I don't have those lines in Retropie's menu. There's no retropie folder in roms. Found a retropie menu folder in RetroPie-Setup but no gamelist.xml.

This also happens with Kodi in Ports menu & I don't use scrape all option in sselph's scraper just the individual scraping.

mitu

Sorry, forgot about the location of the RP menu - it's /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu. However, I don't get how you managed to scrape this system. If I run the scraper with Scraper All systems, there is no gamelist created for it. How did you run the scraper ?

retropieting

I did not use the Scrape all systems, just Scrape chosen systems& choose what I want to scrape.

mitu

I can't reproduce the problem - what version of ES/RetroPie do you have ? Please give more info as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

retropieting

@mitu I'm not in the house right now so I can't check it. Sorry. I updated all the packages installed last night through RetroPie-Setup Script so I'm pretty sure I'm on the latest versions of RetroPie & all installed packages. I'm running Rasberry Pi 2B with the official image of Retropie.

mitu

I think it depends on the theme you're using. I'm running with Carbon - the default theme - and I don't see it, but if you're using a different theme, then it might add those (empty) tags to the RetroPie system.

retropieting

I'm using Carbon theme also. :)

Gravity17

@retropieting I know this topic is quite old, however I had exactly the same issue and was able to fix it so I thought I would share it here for others with the same problem.

The issue is that the Scraper included the "Mame2003" game folder (for want of a better term) as a game to be scraped. The lines it adds (Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, Players) relates to Developer, Publisher, Genre and # of players.

The way I got round it was to boot into retropie, then press select/options (on the controller) when Highlighting the Mame2003 folder and chose to edit the games meta details. I then typed a unique value for the Developer and saved it. Then when I looked in the gamelist.xml file I could see the entry right at the bottom of the file under the <folder> tags. I then edited this file to include some blurb around the emulator itself, gave it a first release date (5th Feb 97 if I remember correctly) and added a nice image to round it off.

I do wonder if you could correct the issue permanently by deleting the folder section from the xml file, but I quite liked the summary.

Hope this helps someone else!