100% noob trying to be a geek, begging for help with Roms. Please......

ucald4amarine

Mitu, Im having some issues again. And based off of what Ive seen in my searches, it looks like youve had some dealings with scrapers. So Im hoping you can help me out, once again.

Ive been able to scrap art for background purposes using the stock scraper. But I wanted video for the screensavers. But... When I try to go through the helpful walkthrough for installing the Stephens Self Scraper, I hit a deadline. I believe it may have to do with the fact that in the walkthrough, its based off of version 4.2.10, and Im currently running 4.4.4
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Everything goes great all the way up till I press F4 and need to type in the command line. ( Sudo~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh )
I am able to type it correctly, despite utilizing an American Style keyboard. But im given an error message instead of a confirmation. Ive gone through this multiple times and cannot find an error. And Im not seeing anything in my searches that addresses this for this version. Thoughts? Thank you for your time.

jakejm79

sudo should be all lower case and there should be a space between sudo and ~

Clyde

@ucald4amarine What @jakejm79 said, and please put commands etc. in backticks (`) to make them more readable.

example

Multiple lines can be put into code blocks with three backticks (```) before and after them.

like
this

And please quote any error messages instead of just saying that there were error messages.

Just some friendly advice how you can help the helpers in helping you. :)

ucald4amarine

@jakejm79 really?! Missed that... I'll try that again. Thanks!

ucald4amarine

@Clyde ahh... I'm sorry. Still learning alot. Have a long ways to go.

ucald4amarine

Just a heads up, everything seems to be working great. Excepting for the scraped videos. Screensaver still not correct for some reason. But ill tackle it again in a bit. Not right now... The machines both function perfectly other than that. And except for the screensavers, and adding a whole lot more games, I think they are pretty much ready for gifting!

ucald4amarine

Hi folks. Me again. Having trouble with the SSh transfer. Ive enabled SSH, and my pie is connected to the internet via wifi. My pc is connected via wifi as well. My pi, I am able to do things online such as download splash screens, download backgrounds, etc. But I cannot find it on my network on my desktop. And Win SCP cant find it either. Im not sure what else to say to describe the situation. Ideas?

grant2258

Just get the ip from retropie menu

ucald4amarine

@grant2258 Ive been doing that. But in this Win SCP program, it pops up with a Login box, and I cant find a section to type the IP address in. Am I missing a section?

ucald4amarine

@ucald4amarine It wont let me do anything outside of the Login box.

grant2258

I dont use win SCP I use flashfxp any fpt client with sftp support will work for transfaring files. For a normal ssh I use putty on windows.

ucald4amarine

Its working. I messed up. Watched someone do it on youtube and thought I was following the directions. Seems that they had renamed where the IP was and I didnt know that was where i needed to type the IP code. Im in.

ucald4amarine

So... Without getting into full blown website names and such... Any reccomendations on how to locate more roms? I dont want to cause any trouble. But Im having issues finding certain titles in .78 romset. Can get all sorts in .151, but titles such as castlevainia, (i know it may be rough with nintendo right now.) are eluding me.

jakejm79

If you are referring to Vs. Castlevainia (the arcade port) then that should be in 0.78 complete rom package.

If you are looking for Castlevainia on other systems, then you'll have to source a rom pack or individual rom for that platform.

ucald4amarine

@jakejm79
It wasn't in the romset that I have. Dunno if it was pulled recently or was never in the set I have. But I have noticed that no Nintendo games are in that set at all. I'll have to keep looking.

jakejm79

No cstlevna.zip?
A quick google for "0.78 mame romset" or "lr-mame2003 romset" brings up several results, the first link being pretty helpful with multiple download options.

Just to be clear you aren't searching for roms for Nintendo's home consoles, those wont be in the Mame pack.

ucald4amarine

@jakejm79 ahh. The Nintendo ones were what I'm searching for. That and earthworm Jim, few others.

jakejm79

@ucald4amarine

You will have to google those, while there are large romsets for them, since they can be installed (and renamed) as you see fit you can also source the individual files. But you are right after recent events the Nintendo ones will be harder to find.

ucald4amarine

@jakejm79 any suggestion for NFL blitz? That's another one I'm having issues with. Same with the other titles?

jakejm79

Trouble finding it or running it, should be in the 0.78 romset, does need a chd file, but also doesn't run very well. You could try the playstation version of it.