@emulatre71 said in Scraper not working when attempting to scrape games for descriptions and boxarts.:

I do have a question about those with bin/cue file formats for PS1. It appears like this because the folders are in the ps1 rom folder, I did not take the contents and just throw them straight into the directory because I like to keep things organized. Are they supposed to be in a folder with their respective bin/cue files?
You don't see the scraper/boxart info until you click on it, this is how they appear so far.

You can convert .bin/.cue sets to .chd using the CHDMAN tool, to clean up your folders to one file per disc (and potentially also save some space.) This will allow you to keep them all in the root psx folder without being too cluttered up with .bin's and .cue's. After this (you might need to re-scrape your games so it associates the new filenames), the menu art should again work as expected: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/CHD-files/#creating-chds-from-cd-roms

Then, for multi-disc games, you can rename the .chd's to .cd1, .cd2 etc. (to hide them from the gamelist) and use .m3u playlist files to clean up your game list menu to one menu item per game. Another advantage of this is on-the-fly disc swapping through the Retroarch menu, and easier save file management (one save file per game, named after the .m3u playlist, instead of a separate file for each disc named after the disc): https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/#m3u-playlists-for-cue-bins-or-chds

Shoot, well I dug a little deeper into the KLOV site, and it looks like there are some reviews on there after all (not many tho, and several games simply aren't reviewed at all). But PlayRetroGames.com and Adb.arcadeitalia.net seem to be other sites that have some occasional reviews (as well as IMDB itself, since let's face it, some actors are now appearing in video games). So I feel bad about the massive list, but I may leave it up for a bit, just in case anyone here is at all familiar with any of those games, who knows...

@MrSkyle Probably use both. Be easier that way.

You'd end up having more entries, but only use the alternate name for games released in that region.

Like:

Addams Family Values - Mega Drive EU

The Addams Family - Genesis US

@markyh444
Oh poop, I thought I was on the Kodi forum... My bad!

@felleg Ha! Yeah, that would be a cool feature. Does anybody have any databases on that type of information though? I know Atari-Age rates the rarity of 2600, 5200, 7800 and Lynx games and I don't think that information changes at all, but they don't keep records of any prices as far as I know.

I think if this feature was added you'd have to have the ability to shut it off, or maybe people would just have to make altered versions of skins that would show it. I don't think that everybody would want that information showing up by default, but I do think it's a cool idea.