EmulationStation Sluggish and Scraper Broken with 4.7 Release
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@mitu This issue concerns about three games I added to my collection most recently. The rest of my games are scraped and have been so for years. The new games are:
- EarthBound (SNES)
- Phantasy Star IV (Genesis/Mega Drive)
- Fushigi no Umi no Nadia (Genesis/Mega Drive, Japan-only)
All three scraped fine in 4.6. I didn't save my changes before updating to 4.7, so I have to rescrape them.
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@maserspark Yes, you're right - there's a bug in EmulationStation's scraper. We'll have to fix it.
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A fix from @mitu has been applied to the scraper and new ES binaries are available again (v2.9.6rp)
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@buzz My scraper is still not working with the v2.9.6rp update.
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@phil_chambers What scraping source are you using ? Can you give an example of game/rom that's not working ?
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@mitu I'm using the built in scraper for various roms on various systems and it doesn't work. It was working last week when I installed 4.6, But I've fully updated 4.7 and it is still unable to find anything.
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@phil_chambers You already said that - please add some details, as I asked in the previous reply, otherwise we'll not be able to check whether it's a scraping source error or an actual error in EmulationStation's scraper.
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@mitu You don't need to be rude. As I previously stated it's unable to scrape for ANY AND ALL games I have, that were previously being scraped while on 4.6. So why I would need to provide specific examples escapes me, but I'll give you several examples to humor you.
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance - GBA
Legend of Zelda, The Oracle of Ages - GBC
NBA Jam Tournament Edition - Sega Master System
Castlevania II - Simon's Quest - NES
Castlevania - Symphony of the Night - Playstaion
Donkey Kong Country 2 - SNES
Metal Slug X - Arcade -
@phil_chambers I wasn't rude, just merely asking for more details. What scraping source are you using ?
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@mitu The built in scraper that comes installed with stock 4.7.
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@phil_chambers The built-in scraper has 2 sources for scraping available
You can configure which one is used from the EmulationStation's settings. Right now, ScreenScraper.fr is not accessible for non-registered users, so scraping from that source does not work - it's not a bug in EmulationStation.
If you change the scraping source and use TheGamesDB, scraping will work.
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@mitu Scraping from TheGamesDB doesn't pull any results for any rom on any system. Is there a system log somewhere I can pull?
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@phil_chambers said in EmulationStation Sluggish and Scraper Broken with 4.7 Release:
Is there a system log somewhere I can pull?
EmulationStation has a log in
\\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation(es_log.txt), but I don't think that it logs any details about scraping request error (just the error). -
@mitu does the new version fix the Atari 800 scraping?
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@jamrom2 I think so.
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@mitu thank you. I'll give it a shot and report.
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@jamrom2 well... it kinda works...
I get parsing errors and every now and then it picks up a game title. The games it does read are seen as Atari 400/800 titles, which is good. But it doesn't recognize many, and again... a ton of parsing errors when you restart ES.
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@jamrom2 Thanks for the test. I wonder if it's screeenscraper that's wonky of the scraping that's not ok. Are you scraping just the Atari800 system ?
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@mitu yes, via the ES option. I also tried using Skyscraper from Retropie_Setup from the console, and I got something very similar. Like a lot of truncated info, or not found.
I also updated to the latest Retropie Set-up script (but I'll guess you knew that because I updated ES..LOL)
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