scraper script and screenshots instead of boxart.

[tekn0]

Hello. I was looking at the scraper setup and was wondering if it would be possible to add a screenshot option instead of the boxart by default.

The flag is -gdb_img="s" to do this.

So I ran "ps -auex" in a ssh session, and then found the original command the script runs. I added the screenshot flag and reran on the ssh command line shell. It downloaded screenshots and everything seemed fine...

The only issue is that the images will not display in any theme. They just come up empty. I have verified they are there and the folder structure is in tact checking the xml.

Any Ideas? I thought it might be a width issue but the max=400 was the same in my command. I tried changing from png to jpg and that did nothing as well.

I feel going for uniform screenshots instead of boxart scans would yield a much cleaner and more unified look. I have a Pi3 with the newest 3.8.1 build.

[sselph]

I can't speak about the RetroPie script options but I wrote the scraper. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would cause that issue and some quick testing seemed to work so I'm going to just ask a ton of questions and some possible suggestions.

If you scraped before, it doesn't overwrite images so you'll need to clear those out but that doesn't sound like the issue.
Have you opened one of the images? I'm curious if they have been corrupted in some way.
Is it showing the other metadata?
Is there a gamelist in the rom folder? maybe there are conflicting gamelists.
Can you provide an example of one of the <image></image> tags from the xml?

[tekn0]

@sselph Thank you for your response. I did sftp into the pi3 and downloaded a few of the images. They all displayed fine on my pc. No noticeable issues. I also deleted the images folder and re-downloaded several times with different command-line flags and no matter what variations I tried "-thumb settings" etc I could not get them to display.

All of the other metadata is in tact and displays fine. Just the pictures are missing. I did not check for a games list in the roms folder. I will have to check again. I only checked the default location where all the games list live. I think it was in the pi home dir in .emulationstation in the "nes" folder in my testing.

I will retry again this evening and supply one of the xml entries. Also the way they implemented your scraper into the retropie setup script works really well.

Thanks again :)

[tekn0]

I re-flashed and started over. It seems everything is ok now. Screenshots are displaying correctly. Using this command and nes for the test.

sudo -u pi /opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -image_dir /home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/nes -image_path /home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/nes -output_file /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/nes/gamelist.xml -rom_dir /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes -workers 4 -skip_check -max_width 400 -use_gdb -gdb_img="s"

Thank you again for your assistance and awesome scraper.

[vaylen]

@tekn0 I have nearly the same issue with seeing some of the images on my retropie set up. My NES, Megadrive, N64, Atari2600 all work, but SNES just shows black instead of the image created. The images are in the right place (\opt\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\downloaded_images\snes) just like the other images that show up correctly in their respective downloaded_images<system> directories. The gamelist.xml file in gamelists\snes\ has all the entries which point to /home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/snes/ for the <image> entries (just like they do for the other working systems). I'm not sure what to do to get the images to show up. I tried uninstalling and re-installing the snes emulator modules. I think originally I had images in home\pi\RetroPie\roms\snes\images\ but I deleted that directory. Is there a chance something is still pointing to that directory instead of to the emulationstation\downloaded_images\snes\ directory?

[mediamogul]

@vaylen

Please open up a new thread and follow the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first being sure to give as much information as possible.