Steven Selph's Scraper Minor Issue

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!