EmulationStation Sluggish and Scraper Broken with 4.7 Release

mitu

@phil_chambers I wasn't rude, just merely asking for more details. What scraping source are you using ?

Phil_Chambers

@mitu The built in scraper that comes installed with stock 4.7.

mitu

@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.

Phil_Chambers

@mitu Scraping from TheGamesDB doesn't pull any results for any rom on any system. Is there a system log somewhere I can pull?

mitu

@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).

jamrom2

@mitu does the new version fix the Atari 800 scraping?

mitu

@jamrom2 I think so.

jamrom2

@mitu thank you. I'll give it a shot and report.

jamrom2

@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.

mitu

@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 ?

jamrom2

@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)

mitu

@jamrom2 said in EmulationStation Sluggish and Scraper Broken with 4.7 Release:

@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.

Hm, if the same happens from Skyscraper, it may be something on the source site. Can you list some of the ROMs that have issues ? I'll give it a shot from my side and see what's the issue.

jamrom2

@mitu

thegamesdb and screenscraper both used.

worked through ES scraper -
Action Biker (1985)(Mastertronic)(US).zip
F-15 Strike Eagle (19xx)(MicroProse)[cr The Cruiser].zip
H.E.R.O. (1984)(Activision).zip
Galaxian (1982)(Atari).zip

Failed in ES and Skyscraper:
A-E (1982)(Broderbund).zip
Archon (1983)(Electronic Arts).zip
Goonies, The (1985)(Datasoft).zip
Gateway to Apshai (1983)(Epyx).zip

jamrom2

@mitu

Looks like I'm getting the same thing from the Atari ST games as well.

Action Fighter (Europe).zip
10th Frame (Europe)
Afterburner (Europe)

well... it scrapes with thegamesdb... but its about 25% of my total 305 games and many of them are standard/popular games.

Gonna be a life-time of me doing manual meta inputs... :(

mitu

@jamrom2 said in EmulationStation Sluggish and Scraper Broken with 4.7 Release:

A-E (1982)(Broderbund).zip
Archon (1983)(Electronic Arts).zip
Goonies, The (1985)(Datasoft).zip
Gateway to Apshai (1983)(Epyx).zip

I tested scraping these from ScreenScraper (from within EmulationStation) and they seem to work:

They're in the Atari800 folder, did you use another folder ?

jamrom2

@mitu yes. They're in the atari800 folder. From my end, it doesn't find anything, then gives this list of errors when I restart ES. Not sure why it's doing this, I've done 41 other systems with no issues. Only two I've seen this with are Atari 800 and Atari ST.

<time and date> ScreenScraperRequest - Error parsing XML..
Start-end tags mismatch

jamrom2

@mitu I went back to my build and renamed both the image folder and gamelist file to let it rebuild new ones

I used both sources, but screenscraper seemed to work a lot better. It read the games, many were missing descriptions, but it read them all. Seems like its working now. I'll do the same for the Atari ST files and patch them all up manually so they have descriptions and images if missing any.

Thanks for the help, I'll say it's working...not optimally, but working. Lol.

Now...if you can tell me why the hell my Budgie keeps ripping his feathers out... I'll be good to go. Lol