Problems with PSX scraping/metadata

Bobowned

Hi everyone, I've searched high and low and a solution for this, and I've drawn completely blank. I've recently done a clean install of Retropie onto a new SD card for my Raspberry Pi Model B, and I managed to get all of my ROMs transferred over with no issues. I was doing an overnight scrape of metadata using Sselph scraper, which seemed to work for every console except the PSX titles. I know that this isn't an uncommon problem, so I tried the built-in Scraper through Emulation Station manually, and it was telling me "No games found" for all of them, which is strange, because I had the exact same setup on my old SD card and it pulled through the box art and descriptions with no problems.

Interestingly, ES also doesn't keep track of how many times I've played my PSX titles (The box now shows as blank, rather than saying 0 or whatever), which is something I have never seen it do before. I've checked my file formats, and all the .bin and .cue files seem fine. The games themselves run just as they did before, but the lack of metadata is really puzzling me. thegamesdb wasn't down either, because it pulled through metadata for about 8 other consoles during the same run.

Any suggestions as to what could be causing this? It's not as through I'm getting any error messages or obvious faults popping up, so hopefully someone else can help shed some light on this!!

(I opened and closed Crash 3 at least three or four times, but 'played' still shows as blank)

mitu

@Bobowned Please add some info about your setup, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Bobowned

Sorry, I had the setup info in a earlier draft of this, but I must have deleted it somehow.

Pi Model or other hardware: Raspberry Pi 3 B
Power Supply used: Official Pi power supply
RetroPie Version Used: 4.4
Built From: Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website
USB Devices connected: Xbox One Controller
Controller used: Xbox One Controller
Error messages received: n/a
Log found in /dev/shm/runcommand.log (if relevant): n/a
Guide used: n/a
File: n/a
Emulator: n/a
Attachment of config files: n/a
How to replicate the problem: n/a

mitu

@Bobowned What version is your Emulationstation ? You can find out by pressing Start and looking at the bottom of the main menu. Try to update it to the last version and re-try scraping.

Bobowned

@mitu I'm running on Emulationstation v2.7.5RP. I've tried updating and scraping again, but I've had no success with that.

mitu

@Bobowned Any ES version older than 2.7.6 will not function correctly with thegamesdb.net scraper, due to the change in their API. So I suggest you update again ES, check which version you're running and re-try scraping.

Bobowned

@mitu Ah, that would explain why it worked during my last install, but not now. Updating all the core packages at once seemed to ignore the fact that there was a newer version of ES and left me on 2.7.5, so I updated that individually, which put me on 2.7.6, and everything works like it used to now. Thanks for your help there! You've saved me tearing my hair out looking for something I would never would have found by myself! :)