I Can't Scrap!!! Say there is no Rom?

mitu

What scraping source are you using ? It might be busy or restricting access to non-registered users - like ScreenScraper.

markett

@mitu said in I Can't Scrap!!! Say there is no Rom?:

What scraping source are you using ? It might be busy or restricting access to non-registered users - like ScreenScraper.

So, like i said i try with Selph Scrapper, Skrapper (ScreenScraper), And the one with Emulation Station. The one with ES has "thegamesdb" and "the archive" and no one of those worked =/
And besides that i have a fully formatted windows, but everything works fine.

mitu

Don't know why it's not working for you, I had no problem a few days ago with Skraper or today with EmulationStation's built-in scraper.

markett

Ok! I Found the problem. It's silly, actually veeery silly. So i have a litte understand of linux and far as i know when a folder has a "." ahead that means the folder is hidden.
In Windows, even if the folder is showing up, ".emulationstation" is consider a hidden folder.

The solution?
I place my roms folder outsite the ".emulationstation" and boom! Everthyng is working as intended.

Clyde

@markett Thanks for sharing your solution.

mitu

@markett said in I Can't Scrap!!! Say there is no Rom?:

Ok! I Found the problem. It's silly, actually veeery silly.

I don't understand - you reported you couldn't scrape your ROMs, but your problem was that your ROMs were not appearing in the list ?

markett

@mitu said in I Can't Scrap!!! Say there is no Rom?:

ROMs were not appearing in the list ?

No, my roms appear at the list, but not for any scraper. I could play the games normally, but if i place images or trying to use any scraper, simple doesn't find any.

Clyde

@markett Why did you put the rom directory inside ~/.emulationstation in the first place? Retropie's standard rom directory is ~/.RetroPie/roms with the individual systems as subdirectories, so it is expectable that the scrapers also expect them to be there.

Did you put the roms into ~/RetroPie/roms/[system] now?

markett

@Clyde said in I Can't Scrap!!! Say there is no Rom?:

Why did you put the rom directory inside ~/.emulationstation in the first place? Retropie's standard rom directory is ~/.RetroPie/roms with the individual systems as subdirectories, so it is expectable that the scrapers also expect them to be there.
Did you put the roms into ~/RetroPie/roms/[system] now?

So, i am using Windows, because of that i need to create a folder roms/system and i can put this
wherever I want.
Then to make easier to find the roms folder, i put in .emulationstation that in theory I just needed to change the system at the end of ./roms/.

Mydriaze

@markett Thanks for this, I've been trying the all day without understanding why it was not working. You saved my day my friend!