@retrotarta i made the same experience with screenscraper.
Usually he finds the metadata for a rom by the third to fith try.
I dont know why, maybe too much traffic for a small server?

@Efriim said in Error parsing xml Scraper EmulationStation.:

Sorry for the spotty details, wasn't sure if there was a quick and easy fix for this thing.

There isn't, the message is just a parsing error, indicating that the scraper site hasn't responded with a well formed XML message. It's because - at the moment - scraping from ScreenScraper doesn't work for un-registered users. You'll have to use an external scraper (see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/) that supports scraping with a registered account or scrapes from a different source.

Thanks for this quick reply.

Perhaps not that exact setting then but another one in the same menu? The ability to scrape images from a web URL would be quite useful for those looking to avoid needing to edit the names for manually added images.

@synack As far as the end user is concerned it works just fine as is. They scrape from SSelph and it gets say 90% for a given system. Then they scrape from the built in scraper (by filtering on roms with no images, the games db, and for the given system). They manually resolve conflicts. Now they may have about 99% of the roms scraped for that system. 90% of the images are in the directory SSelph scraper uses, 9% are in the directory the built in scraper uses, and 1% couldn't be found. So it all works. Me (and my OCD ha) would like it if all the image files were in SSelph's directory. So your options are

leave it as -is and don't worry about it Manually copy the images over to SSelphs directory, then open up the gamelist in notepad and find and replace Write a script (or use the script I wrote) to do #2 automatically

In honesty I should have just done #2. I sent more time testing and getting the script to work. If I just manually did it I'd have it done in probably 20 minutes.

I've tested it so far on the virtual boy, the n64, the Sega 32x and the SG1000 system and the script seems to work fine each time. I wish I could get to 100%. The "Add Input" button in emulation station is weird. I can find WWF RAW on thegamesdb.net but I can't seem to type in anything in emulation station to find it. I wish I could just type in the gameid in the "Add Input" button in Emulation Station.