It’s working fine, thank you!

Aha, I actually figured out how to make it work, for anyone reading this in the future!

The problem is for whatever reason the entry that emulationstation creates just starts with "roms/gbc." It works once you simply replace "roms/" with "./" in front of that, which is what is listed for the paths for games before the rom name too (and I suppose substitutes for the entire filepath to the root folder). So adding this to my sgb gamelist...

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Creates this in my emulationstation system for SGB:

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Which is exactly what I was hoping for. Clicking through those two directories takes me to all my SGB-compatible GB and GBC games, and I didn't need to add duplicate roms to do it as the gamelist points to the GB/GBC rom locations I have for those systems. Woohoo!

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My sd-card die recently. i transfered my metadata, download_images and gamelists folders, to a new setup and everything looks fine except that, if i run again skyscraper, it starts to download the pics that i have already download. My question: Is this a normal behavior or i missing something? Thanks!

Yes, it's normal - Skyscraper downloads files into it's cache first, then it copies them to the final location. If you haven't transferred your cache (from $HOME/.skyscraper/cache), then it's normal that the artwork/videos are re-downloaded.

@geese-howard ok thanks, cause it's not on the webpage, but other service like retropie are in.

@mitu

Wow! At some point I did disable the save on exit setting. Thank you.

@roslof

That did the trick! Thank you. I guess since I looked at the folder path in windows explorer, and it spelled "RetroPie" in lower case as "retropie" I assumed that would be the correct folder name. Thanks for you help!

@billydent no problem. Glad I could help.

When you start a 'bulk' scraping operation you have an option named User decides on conflicts, you can toggle that off and you'll not be asked anything during scraping.

To scrape a single game, press Select when you've selected the game in the list and then choose Edit this game's metadata, you'll have the option to scrape there that single game/rom.

@mitu

Thanks Mitu. I ended up using locate to find any corresponding gamelist.xml for the Naomi folder(s) and wiped them, then I just started from scratch, adding one game at a time and it looks like it finally took the information. I must have missed something in there, but just copy/pasting by hand finally nixed the issue.

It was so weird. Before that it was even naming stuff totally wrong. Like I had MegaMan 3 for NES Playchoice listed in the Naomi folder. And a LOT of the games were being listed as Power Instinct, which is not on the Naomi. No idea why it was generating games that weren't in the folder at all.

@IanDaemon that's exactly what I plan to use it for. All of the game sequels done with Roman Numerals can be displayed as the publishers intended but also in sequential order.

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Backup your data - see Option 2 of how you can backup - and re-install.

Scraped data is kept in one of these places:

the ROMs folder (if you've used an external scraper). the \\retropie\configs\emulationstations\downloaded_images folder, if you've used only the EmulationStation internal scraper(s).

So if you take the advice in the docs and back-up your ROMs and configs folders, you should be able to keep your games and scraped data.

@Thorr69 Hi, thanks for the suggestion - but would that not also hide it for all my 'systems', not just the Retropie menu?

I'm a bit confused - the right permissions for the gamelists are to be owned by the user pi. If you change the file to be owned by root, then Emulationstation (which runs as user pi) will not be able to save any metadata (writing back the gamelist.xml file).

Make sure the files are owned by the user pi, then try again to see if the metadata is saved. If it's not, show a screenshot of the file's permissions. Also, make sure you didn't accidentally disabled saving the metadata on exit from the Emulationstation settings.

@BuZz
Do you have an opinion on this matter?

I am thinking about

an option to enable instant save on every change in the event loop which might introduce lags depending on the system having a background thread that saves changes which would not introduce lags but introduce more complexity into ES