Some systems without Screenshots in ES

10vorne

@mitu The theme I used is called Tronkyfran. But I've now tested others and it's the same everywhere. On some systems, the descriptions are displayed but not the screenshots. I just purged one of the systems again, scraped it again and then generated the list, no change. Can you please explain to me how I can send you the output of the game list generation? Do you only need the ending or all? Is there a log file that I can use for that? Otherwise Retropie-Setup always jumps back to the GUI when everything is done.

sirhenrythe5th

@10vorne i scrape my games one by one.
And therefore i can confirm that not all games get pictures, only the metadata.
There seem to be some games where no pics are stored in the database of the scraper.

rasp_renegade

@10vorne

mitu is asking about the gamelist.xml. They are located here;

/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/mame-libretro (this is mame for example)

mitu

I was actually asking for the log from Skyscraper, when you run it to generate the gamelist(s). If you're running from RetroPie-Setup, then yes, the log will scroll by and you won't be able to copy from it.

Do you still have enough space available on your sdcard ? If you don't, the scraped images may not get copied from Skyscraper's cache to the gamelist artwork folder.

10vorne

@mitu A bit mysterious. A gamelist.xml is in the rom directory of mame-libretto (from July 7th). But there is also a configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/mame-libretto (dated July 9th). But I've been using Skyscraper all the time and scraped all systems the same way and created the gamelist. So I have no idea why the gamelist is in both directories here. So I looked at all the systems in question and they all had their own gamelist.xml with outdated data. When I deleted them, I also saw the screenshots after restarting the ES. Maybe they were part of the Rompacks, actually that's the only way I can explain it. But that can't be the case with mame-libretto. On 7.7 the Rompack was on it a long time ago and since I've only worked with Skyscraper, the gamelist should have been somewhere else. I have to watch this.

By the way, the space on the SD card was also one of my thoughts, but I still have over 6GB free.

Now the screenshots of the systems in question are shown to me. However, I now get parsing errors from the (same) systems on which I have now manually deleted the gamelist. This has no effect in ES, I can see everything, but still - where is this information stored?

mitu

@10vorne said in Some systems without Screenshots in ES:

where is this information stored?

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/#where-are-my-scraped-media-and-metadata-saved

10vorne

@sirhenrythe5th I tried to scrape single games for pc but I get an error-message

Couldn't calculate cache id of rom file '', please check permissions and try again, now exiting...

But apart from the error message, I think PC games are problematic because they are all in a subdirectory and Skyscraper then either doesn't scrape anything or all the content in the subdirectory of that game. You would probably have to create bat files in the root directory to do this properly with Skyscraper.

10vorne

@mitu If I now edit (existing) or search for (new) game information about the scrape function in the ES, is this then also entered regularly and properly in the gamelist.xml or is this information overwritten the next time Skyscraper is called via Retropie setup?

mitu

@10vorne It will be overwritten if Skyscraper has scraped information about the game.

sirhenrythe5th

@10vorne said in Some systems without Screenshots in ES:

@sirhenrythe5th I tried to scrape single games for pc but I get an error-message
You would probably have to create bat files in the root directory to do this properly with Skyscraper.

You are right, i created ☆.sh-files for my DOS Games. With these i was able to scrape this games.

sleve_mcdichael

@mitu @10vorne just scrape from esgamelist after your edits and it will scrape your gamelist.xml just like any other source, adding it to your local cache and prioritizing this over all other sources.

10vorne

@sirhenrythe5th Hm I tried it, like in this thread

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16987/msdos-dosbox-games-how-do-you-create-sh-files-to-point-to-the-correct-file-name/3

But it jumps back to ES. I didn't know if I have to make the .sh executable, I tried both. Would you please post an example?