Emulationstation gamelist problems

ket83

Hi, I'm also struggling with scrapping in ES. Not much information to gather around the web. Can anybody explains how it basically works please, it's been 3days wasted here... Is there any comprehensive wiki that I missed ?

How does the <image> tag works in the gamelist.xml ? How do you write paths ( \games\ or /games/ ) ? How about spaces, does the path needs to be "M:\between quotation marks\game with spaces.png" ?

May be worth noting that my roms aren't located in the frontend root folder and runs on windows os.

So should I use absolute paths instead of ./ relative paths ?
Also, i'm using Darkade theme, is there anything in it I have to mess with in order to show scrapped data ? Because even the <desc> data from gamelist.xml isn't showing up...

And while at it, I'm also struggling with system musics, I watched a video of an ES user using a linux trick to loop a global background music but that's not what I'm looking for, I want each system to play a distinctive music.

I have these lines in every system theme.xml and the sound file according to the path :
<sound name="bgsound">
<path>./sounds/system.ogg</path>
</sound>

Thanks for your help.

mitu

@ket83 Please don't reopen old topics slightly related to your problem. I've split your post into a separate topic.

First of all - what version of Emulationstation are you using and how did you obtain it ?

To address your questions

Image works by reading the image file between the tags and showing it into the theme placeholder for the image. It supports paths with spaces, paths relative to the gamelist location or absolute paths.
Emulationstation produces a log file (es_log.txt) where gamelist errors are logged, you should look into it to see if any errors are shown.
The RetroPie version of Emulationstation does not support background music, so your XML edits to add any sounds will not have any effect.

ket83

@mitu
Sorry, I though the other topic was a good place to dig the scraped data subject. Thanks for pointing that out.

Emulationstation version is v2.0.1a, built Mar 8 2015, got it from here : https://emulationstation.org/downloads/releases/emulationstation_win32_latest.zip

Indeed, Error parsing XML... I feel stupid, I just forgot to close a tag. It's now working fine. To clarify, as you stated, the path tag supports paths with spaces, meaning you don't need any quotes. & the path needs common slashes (/) instead of backslashes ().
Thank you very much.

mitu

You're using the original Emulationstation, which is abandoned - the RetroPie project maintains a separate fork of it, which is updated and has many new features (Emulationstation), including support for a lot of new Themes. You can give the new version a try with an updated version from https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation/releases.

ket83

@mitu
Replaced with the branch you mentioned, new setup kind of messed up my pad profile. Was scared first but works nicely after deleting es_input.cfg :) Scrap also now works as intended. Didn't work in vanilla version.
Thank you very much again, you saved me tons of hard work, cleanup scripts, etc... that emulationstation website should mention clearly it's abandoned state + links to updated forks... I guess a lot of people get scraping issues.