@JackTaylor said in Retropie saving images in /boot:

However, I have found there is another roms folder on the boot directory, where the images are being sent to when the pi boots.

Not sure why that happens, but it's not from RetroPie. EmulationStation, which is the only RetroPie program started at boot that stays resident, doesn't move images around.

@sleve_mcdichael said in Some images missing in the docs:

Edit: I got the raw image url from the GitHub page, and when I follow that I get "error 503 backend is unhealthy":

Seems like an error on the Github side I haven't encountered this kind of errors so far, but Github has issues from time-to-time and I wouldn't be surprised they'd show up as missing images.

@eberhab

Ok,
Good find !

@TPR or permissions indeed :-) ...

@snapouille, have you found SVG files for all of the other controllers? Would you mind sharing where you got them? I can look at those and possibly create some SVG files for these that you are looking for...

@theotherdan

Thank you. This was caused by the environment though. I was booting into PIXEL desktop before launching EmulationStation. This configuration prevents quite a few things to function as expected.

@denzela I would consider running a badblocks check on the SDCard. Simply rebooting the machine shouldn't make the images suddenly start to show as you describe.

@mitu said in Using ES Scraper - How can I automatically save images to ROM folders?:

@tpr said in Using ES Scraper - How can I automatically save images to ROM folders? png to ico:

Is there a way to force the built-in scraper to use those directories?

No, there is no option for the built-in EmulationStation scraper to change the download location. If space is a concern, then you can symlink the downloaded_images folder to a folder on the external drive.

Thank you very much for the explanation.

This is probably what you are looking for.

https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper

It’s available as a package in, I think, ”optional”.

@mitu Ok, I'll give Skyscraper a try.

It looks like they're listed under "Atari 8-bit" instead of calling it Atari 800, maybe because it included all versions of the 400/800 system?

Thanks for fishing this out, and hopefully will be an easy fix for you and the team.

Best,

JR

We don't support 3rd party images, especially the ones loaded with ROMs - as are the ones that you're trying to choose from. Use the image from retropie.org.uk/download and follow the installation instructions from the Docs.

If you're hard pressed on time, I recommend you get your brother friend a ready made console, like one of the mini consoles released by Sega/Sony/Nintendo, which come already installed and with the games included.

Disregard. I figured out the issue. I originally downloaded a Romset and it had a Gamelist included. So I guess if a gamelist is already in the rom folder, it ignores the one in config.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thank you for replying @mitu

I mean the folders that store the game art, video snaps and wheel art.

Leave them on the SD card then change the metadata in the gamelist.xml file to point to the Roms folder on the SD card.

Regards

CCF

@mitu Ah, since @MISTERHOLLYW00D wrote that he knows that kodi or ports could be added to the main carousel, I though @BuZz's answer only pertained to game roms.

FAT32? That is only the Partition with the Bootloader, the regular OS Partitions are Ext4.
Maybe this here Berryterminal: Adding your own custom operating systems to the menu could be useful.

Make sure you specified the correct path where you copied the images when you edit the game. Can you post the gamelist.xml file for the system where you added the images on pastbin.com ? We can check if there are any incorrect paths there.