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    EmulationStation Scraper NOT Working

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    • mituM
      mitu Global Moderator @Tomtom5893
      last edited by

      @Tomtom5893 https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/20613/emulationstation-internal-scraper-problems. TL;DR for now use an external scraper.

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      • BillyHB
        BillyH @mitu
        last edited by BillyH

        Never mind, I didn't realise gamesdb counted as "internal", checking the other thread now

        • First Pi: Pi 3 in a PSone case
        • Second Pi: Pi 0 in a Retroflag GPi Case
        • Third Pi: Pi 4 as a desktop computer
        • Some time in 2020: Picade
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        • K
          keithk2581
          last edited by

          Hey guys. Updated recently to 4.4.12 and The Built in scraper isn't working! When trying to scrape it just returns no games found message. Anyone else having this problem?

          Have a raspberry pi 3B

          Thanks!

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          • quicksilverQ
            quicksilver @keithk2581
            last edited by

            @keithk2581 update emulation station

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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator @keithk2581
              last edited by

              @keithk2581 What version of Emulationstation do you have installed ? If you're still using a Raspbian Jessie installation (i.e. your installation is not using a 4.4 base image), the new version is not going to be offered for installation. Add more info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

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              • K
                keithk2581
                last edited by

                Hey folks. Thanks for your responses. I apologize since I somewhat new to this and probably lack some of the necessary vocabulary.

                I think I've updated emulation station when I updated to my current version 4.4.12. Is there a way to check or another way I should be updating it?

                Also how do I tell what version of emulation station I I have installed, since I'm not entirely sure.

                Thanks for all your help in advance since I'm new to all of this.

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                • mituM
                  mitu Global Moderator @keithk2581
                  last edited by

                  @keithk2581 Please provide the info asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. You can check your Emulationstation version by pressing Start anywhere in Emulationstation.

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                  • K
                    keithk2581
                    last edited by

                    Pi Model: 3b
                    Power Supply :Cana Kit 2.5a
                    RetroPie Version : 4.4.12
                    Built From : Pre Made SD Image on RetroPie Website
                    Controller 8bitdo SNF30 Pro
                    Emulation Station Version:V2.8.3RP
                    No Errors logged

                    Internal Scraper still not working at all, but was previously working on the date I updated to 4.4.12

                    I hope I provided the necessary info, thanks again for all your help and patience, its really appreciated

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                    • mituM
                      mitu Global Moderator @keithk2581
                      last edited by

                      @keithk2581 What Scraper are you using ? There are 2 choices for the internal ES scraper - TheGamesDB or ScreenScraper. ScreenScraper might occasionally not work due to their over-capacity messages.
                      What ROMs are you trying to scrape - system/game ?

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                      • K
                        keithk2581
                        last edited by

                        I have it set to the Gamesdb scraper but have changed it to the other with the same results - no games found. I'm was trying to scrape the rest of my Sega genesis (mega drive). I also tried it on other systems, nes, snes and neo geo with the same result. No games found.

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                        • stoney66S
                          stoney66 @keithk2581
                          last edited by

                          @keithk2581 For grins I loaded a new rom to check and its working for me, scrape found 3 results and they are correct. I also use only thegamesdb.

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                          • K
                            keithk2581
                            last edited by

                            Crazy man, I have two of these setup exactly the same way and put together in the same fashion and both have the same issue. Only think I can think of that I did recently was enabled ssh on both. Would that possibly cause this issue? Going to try disabling it when I get home tonight and see what happens. Thanks again to all!

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                            • mituM
                              mitu Global Moderator @keithk2581
                              last edited by

                              @keithk2581 No, SSH has no influence over this. Can you try and get the log file from Emulationstation (now that you have SSH enabled) from /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_log.txt and post it to pastebin.com ? Make sure you restart Emulationstation and run the scraper once before getting the log file.

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                              • K
                                keithk2581
                                last edited by

                                ok here it is:

                                <script src="https://pastebin.com/embed_js/LJ6Fi19r"></script>

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                                • mituM
                                  mitu Global Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  The error is something like 'game not found'.

                                  lvl1: 	TheGamesDBJSONRequest - Response had no game data.
                                  

                                  What games have you tried to scrape ?

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                                  • K
                                    keithk2581
                                    last edited by

                                    Im missing for approx. 173 mega drive games. I have tried to scrape them individually and even changed the name in the input section. but still returned no games found. I even tried just typing one letter into the input field and searching and still returned no games found.

                                    Here is the link for the error log after I scraped for genesis games:

                                    <script src="https://pastebin.com/embed_js/m2EWLeL6"></script>

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                                    • mituM
                                      mitu Global Moderator @keithk2581
                                      last edited by

                                      @keithk2581 I don't know why it's not working for you, I just tried a few Megdrive games and they work fine when scraping from TheGamesDB. Maybe the names you have for the files are not recognized by the scraping site - what's the name of your ROMs, can you give some examples ?

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                                      • K
                                        keithk2581
                                        last edited by

                                        Addams Family, The.gen
                                        Arch Rivals - The Arcade Game.gen
                                        The Aquatic Games starring James Pond and the Aquabats.gen

                                        ……...to name a few out of 173. I have even tried to rename them, the file name and by inputting different variants of the name into the search box, but no luck. Don't understand why its not working on mine. Any suggestions on what I could try next?

                                        Thanks again to you all for you assistance, it is truly appreciated.

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                                        • mituM
                                          mitu Global Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          I think that the problem is with the names of the ROMs. If I try to scrape Addams Family, The, no result is found, but if I change the name of the ROM to The Addams Family, the game is found and scraped. It's odd that from over 100 titles, none of them is matched, but they seems to be named in a peculiar way.

                                          As an alternative, you can try skyscraper or scraper - they're external scrapers that use mainly the file contents to scrape and the name of the ROM is not that important.

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                                          • K
                                            keithk2581
                                            last edited by

                                            Yes it's very weird, I too, have tried changing the name, but nothing is found still, what's even more weird is that it was working right after the update to 4.4.12 but then suddenly stopped on both of my builds. I guess I'll have to try the other scrapers for now, manually enter each game it missing or format one of my builds and do a reinstall and see if that works. Thanks to all for your assistance, if you can think of anything else, my ears(eyes) are open

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