EmulationStation Scraper NOT Working

keithk2581

So as an experiment, I decided to try a fresh install on a 3rd SD and after all was installed and updated, the scraper did work! Something must be corrupted on my other 2 builds, just don't know what or how or why! Any idea if I can fix this without formatting and starting from scratch or is that my only option?

mitu

@keithk2581 Try removing any files from ~/.emulationstation/scrapers. TheGamesDB scraper will download some files there on the 1st scrape, you'll have to wait a bit, then it will re-create the files.

keithk2581

I'll give it a shot when I get home tonight, thanks!

keithk2581

I deleted the files you said, and it works again! Thank you so much for your help!!

keithk2581

Only thing I notice now is that it still returns no games found for games I know are on the gamesdb for example, super battleship and wheel of fortune to name 2(Sega genesis), just an issue with the site or my scraper?

mitu

@keithk2581 Can you find the games on their site ? If not, then maybe there's an issue with the site. What's the complete ROM filename ?

keithk2581

Yes the games are on the site, but seems to only be a problem for mega drive/genesis games. Just did a bunch of super nes games with no issue and all of my rims are named in the same fashion. I have all of my genesis games in mega drive folder could that be an issue in regard to the scraping?

Rom names are in this format:
Wheel of Fortune(USA).gen
Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle And Friends,The(USA).gen

Both of those are on the games dB but won't scrape even if I manually change the input

mitu

@keithk2581 said in EmulationStation Scraper NOT Working:

I have all of my genesis games in mega drive folder could that be an issue in regard to the scraping?

It should not, unless they're in a different system on the scraping site. Given that the other ROMs are found, I don't think that's the case.

Wheel of Fortune(USA).gen
Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle And Friends,The(USA).gen

There are multiple games with this name - the first has one for Genesis and SegaCD, the 2nd one has one for multiple consoles of the time - NES, SNES, Genesis, GameBoy.

I can take a look to see what's confusing the scraper, but it could also be a bug on the server side.

keithk2581

Yeah, trying to figure that out is definitely above my current skill level :). Funny that its only the genesis(mega drive) games, gotta be something about them. My guess would be its on the server side, but who knows. Thanks again for all your help, and to all who have posted, I truly appreciate it.

mitu

It's because of the way TheGamesDB stores the information about platforms (consoles/systems).
The scraper filters the ROM search by Platform=Sega Mega Drive (and rightly so, since the same game is also available on NES/SNES and GameBoy), however the games are in platform=Sega Genesis, which is different (has a different identifier).

If you search on TGDB by Platform='Sega Mega Drive' and the name of the game - let's use The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends as an example - there's nothing returned. However, if you search with Platform='Sega Genesis', there's one game returned (as it should).

I'm not sure right now how this should be handled in Emulationstation, I'm surprised there were only 2 games from your list. I think all US exclusive Genesis games will not be found by the TGDB scraper.

Now, the ScreeenScraper scraper would be able to find them, but right now it's a bit broken because of their SSL settings change.

keithk2581

Hmmm, I see. There were more than 2 games, was just giving you an example of the format of the file names of 2 of my roms that wouldn't scrape. Scraper actually worked for 611 of the 784 games i have, plus or minus a few name issues. I guess for now, ill just gradually add them over time manually, like a small project. Thank you so much for everything!

mitu

@keithk2581 You can try also Skyscraper, it should be at least as efficient as scraper.

mitu

I submitted a bug report - https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/issues/565 - for this problem, maybe the scraper can be easily modified to search simultaneously in the Genesis and Megadrive systems.

MrJordaaany

Is this fixed now and in the main build? Or do you still need to source build the experimental release of Emulationstation?

mitu

@MrJordaaany It's what fixed ?

MrJordaaany

@mitu The EmulationStation built in scraper. Or do you have to build the experimental release from source. Will this new version be included in 4.5?

mitu

@MrJordaaany If you use the built in scraper is should have a functional TGDB scraper. Did you scrape from TheGamesDB or from ScreenScraper ? Scraping from ScreenScraper only works on the -dev branch, due to a change on their site.

MrJordaaany

It wasn't working for me so I installed the experimental one from source. If I do a fresh 4.4 install, it should be ok now you reckon? Or still need to update EmulationStation under core packages?

Cheeeers

mitu

@MrJordaaany What's the exact Emulationstation version you see when you look at the ES menu (Start) ?

MrJordaaany

@mitu v2.7.6. I could be wrong though, im not at home so can't check right now.