EmulationStation Scraper NOT Working

mitu · 6 May 2019, 11:42

@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 · 6 May 2019, 17:19

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 · 6 May 2019, 17:56

@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 · 6 May 2019, 23:27

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 · 5 Jul 2019, 08:13

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 · 7 May 2019, 10:06

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 · 7 May 2019, 10:38

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

mitu · 15 May 2019, 17:36

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 · 23 May 2019, 08:45

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

mitu · 23 May 2019, 18:24

@MrJordaaany It's what fixed ?

MrJordaaany · 31 May 2019, 01:24

@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 · 31 May 2019, 02:37

@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 · 31 May 2019, 02:51

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 · 31 May 2019, 02:52

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

MrJordaaany · 31 May 2019, 02:55

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

mitu · 31 May 2019, 02:58

@MrJordaaany This is not the latest version of Emulationstation. If you're using the 4.3 or older image (based on Raspbian Jessie) and you're not using the 4.4 image, then you're not going to get the latest version.

MrJordaaany · 31 May 2019, 03:00

Yeah probably not going to update my own Retropie setup, I know emulator updates will break my setup.

However when setting up new units for mates or whatever, the built in EmulationStation scraper should be good right off the bat on 4.4?

mitu · 31 May 2019, 04:03

@MrJordaaany said in EmulationStation Scraper NOT Working:

However when setting up new units for mates or whatever, the built in EmulationStation scraper should be good right off the bat on 4.4?

If you start with the 4.4 image you'll get the same 2.7.6RP version, you need to do at least an update after a fresh 4.4 image for the packages included.

AssPunchMan · 2 Jun 2019, 10:51

Hi

I have a similar problem with version 2.8.3RP.

Yesterday it stopped working and you can not find any more games. There is no way to make it work again?

It tells me ScraperHttpRequest error .. SSL conection fail or something similar.

Pi 3B+ all updated to latest version -with downgrade of kernel for fix bluethod controllers bug-.

Thx

mitu · 2 Jun 2019, 15:27

@AssPunchMan said in EmulationStation Scraper NOT Working:

Yesterday it stopped working and you can not find any more games. There is no way to make it work again?

What scraper source are you using ? TheGameDB or ScreenScraper ? TheGamesDB should work, for the latter you need to wait until the fix for the SSL issues (caused by changes to the site) are added in the stable branch.

As this topic has become an old dumpster bin for all issues regarding scraping (whatever they are), I'll be locking this down - it's not providing any useful solutions for anyone looking at it right now and the error that started the issue is long gone.