@mitu said in Scraping in EmulationStation not working..:

Please add more info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
What scraping source are you using ? There are 2 options in EmulationStation - TheGamesDB and ScreenScraper - and the former is not functional at the moment.

Do you know when TheGamesDB will be functional again?

This is from the website:
"Update:
due to certain family commitments, we were not able to get the latest backup as of yet.
for now, we're using a READ ONLY old backup, and the API is also back online,
but using the prefix /v1/ which is both to get devs to explicitly make sure old data doesn't just crash their apps,
but this prefix will remain as our main endpoint for this api going forward (aka once latest backup is restored)"

Is this something we can change? Change it to use the prefix v1, whatever that means xD

@mitu That's more a typo than a full-on spelling error, though.

I did get my .mp3 files to play inside the music folder. I am happy that .mp4s work as well. I could have sworn that one of the read me files said that you could also place these inside a video folder so that they will play randomly like the .mp3s. If this isn't the case, hopefully that option will be included in a future build. I have to say that these new options (grid view, video view, basic view) have been implemented nicely. The presentation of the themes looks more vibrant too :-).

What settings do you have in the Sound section in Emulationstation ?

@db666
You're welcome.
Glad to hear my script is being used :)

For your information, @valerino also made a script for Philips CDI.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/25576/new-scriptmodules-lr-vice-xvic-gsplus-proper-lr-mess-integration
(I did not test that script, it seems it lacks things like mouse, joystick and fullscreen support.
But it seems that he figured out that short named files are not necessary anymore)
It should be nice if the knowledge of both scripts could be combined in the future.

@mitu ah ok thank you for your help and input anyway it is much appreciated

sorry i havent readed the read-this-first. page im new here hope you doint mind.
if you want to know this is the exact message

lvl0: Error creating SDL window!
Could not get EGL display
lvl0: Renderer failed to initialize!
lvl0: Window failed to initialize!

@mitu So, the universe has been enriched by one more mystery. But as far as I'm concerned, this thread is solved. 😊

i'm afraid we don't support third party images, which the "TinyPi Pro sdcard image" is. perhaps the seller can support?

@paffley said in Grid Updates - emulationstation-dev:

Hi @jdrassa any news on a fix for this as yet please? https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/issues/667

Just built es-dev from source and the squished boxart is fixed!

@silver Thanks for sharing the solution.

And I didn't get around to make the aforementioned changes for your setup either, because I'm on vacation for a movie festival where I watch 2-3 movies every day over the whole week. :)

About the artwork's space: Yeah, I figured as much. But none said that retrogaming is a piece of cake (and if they said that, they lied). I'll keep this on my to-do list and look forward for any updates on your side.

Ok, thanks.

I found a script to cleanup gamelist.xml files in emulationstation. I think I'll give it a go.

Thanks for your help!

I found a solution here in the later comments:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7843/boxart-screenshot-display-same-time/3

I had to add <marquee>./marquees/, <image>./images/ AND <video>./videos/ on each gamelist (duplicated multiples via regex) even though there's no video folder.

The presence of the video field enables for a marquee to be loaded instead, when <showSnapshotNoVideo> is set to true.

Yes, other games are fine. I am quite sure it's a bug and proposing a fix here:
https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/592

@dudleydes thanks for the reply, I feared it would be like that. Well, I think then I just take it how it is.

Hello

Issue is solved

It was a problem with my amp.

We can close the issue.

Regards

@dult-np said in EmulationStation manually configuring gamelist.xml to open DOS folders:

But I still would like to keep access to the folder... Can I add metadata to the folder?

You can, but I think the process is manual - scraping might not work for folders.
As an alternate method - you can use a .conf file for each game and keep the game folders in rom/pc-data. The .conf method allows you to map your PC games' folders, map CD rom images add configurations/mapper files per-gam, add additional commands to run during startup. The .conf file should be easier for scraping.

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See these topics for details: