"& quot ;" vs " " in Descriptions

ClassicGMR

One more question for the day. It's really a pain to go through, find and fix.

Is this a function of the scraper or is there something in EmulationStation that is mis-handling these?

In many descriptions I have
& quot ;text& quot ;

Instead of
"text"

mitu

@ClassicGMR said in "& quot ;" vs " " in Descriptions:

Is this a function of the scraper or is there something in EmulationStation that is mis-handling these?

The scraper should properly (un)escape the " part, but it might as well be that the scraping site has the wrong content (i.e. & quot; instead of "). Can you give more details about what scraper/scraping source/game ?

ClassicGMR

@mitu I know one already since it's one of my favorite games.

Pressure Cooker for the Atari 2600:

In Pressure Cooker, you are a cook whose job is to fulfill hamburger orders at & quot ;The Grill& quot ;. Along the bottom of the screen you will see the orders for various types... etc etc

Here's another. 1942 for the NES:

The year is 1942, and you are the daring fighter pilot & quot;Super Ace& quot ;.

One more. 720 Degrees for the NES:

But, if you don't get to the competition in time, the infamous & quot;Skate or Die& quot; message appears, and you have to hurry!

I believe I scraped every game I have initially with Selph's scraper. As per the source I can't nail that down 100% because sometimes thegamesdb wasn't responding. I'd say almost all came from that source however.

Also - to be specific - there's no space between the ampersand and the q in the descriptions. I had to put that there so this board wouldn't translate it to ". =)

mitu

@ClassicGMR Aha. I suppose that happened some time ago, because right now the scraper doesn't work with the new TDGB API/Site. You might want to re-scrape those entries (or the whole list) using another source site (ScreenScraper) or - if you have a recent Emulationstation - scrape them using the internal ES scraper (from either TGDB or Screenscraper).