So I ended up downloading the Hyperspin 2D cover set and it worked incredibly for this purpose.

I do have one question though: We used to be able to scrape folders and add metadata to the folder itself. For example, for multi-disc PSX games, I'd put both discs in a folder and scrape the folder to have the metadata displayed when highlighted in the gamelist. Every time I try and do that now though, ES crashes and I get the following error...

"lv10: TheGamesDBRequest - Error parsing XML.
Start-end tags mismatch
terminate called after throwing an insyance of 'std::out_of_range'
what(): map::at
Aborted"

Does anyone know if attaching metadata to a folder was removed recently? I am currently running 4.3.8.

@jonnykesh he'll also want to update setup script/usbromservice as there was a bug inhibiting bios transfer.

More reliable to transfer over network/samba

I went through this just last night. I "remade" all my cue files (made blank zero byte files and just named them "gamename.cue"). However the scraper scraped the same game over and over again and the game was for the sega megadrive not the psx sooooo shrugs

You can add the videos manually yes. Place them into your /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/images and then re-scrape them. Two things though..

your videos need to be renamed so they have -video.mp4 on the end (i.e. Tekken (USA)-video.mp4) I would strongly suggest you use a batch re-namer to do so! (for windows use Bulk Renemer or for linux use Pyrenamer it is in the repos))

The BIG problem is the two scrapers don't play nice with each other. The "built in scraper for ES will delete the video tags and Steven's scraper may not pick up the correct info due ti the database (I guess).

So what happens is you don't get boxart or info and the wrong vid but everything is tagged...then you go trough and redo them and you get boxart and info but no tags. I have not tried to scrape the videos locally from the folder after using the built ES scraper yet. It might not erase anything and add the video tags.

So you want to do the built in ES scraper first and then use Steven's scraper to scrape from your folder after you have renamed all your videos. I can try that later and see it it works..but again you will need files that at least end in the correct extension. I had I batch/script that would do just that..but that was a lifetime ago when i was using MameWah..I'll see if I can dig it up...but don't hold your breath ;)

Edit: Ok so here is what i did..and it worked..okay...

I scraped all my pbp files with the built in scraper then I used Steven's scraper scraping just the cue files and append that to my list and it scraped some of my videos. So I still had to hand edit my list..so might be the only why do to it is by hand..

Here is an Idea..scrape just the cue files (making sure thy have the correct name and all that) with the built in first...then scrape with Steven's scraper appending the information to the list (that way your video tags are added) last go and do a find and replace on the gamelist.xml and search for .cue< replace with .pbp<
(yes add the less-than sign..just to make it harder to replace something else.)
The only catch with that is your pbp will have to match your .cue file names exactly it's an idea anyway.

EDIT: You can batch rename your .pbp to .cue then scrape..then rename them back from .cue to .pbp

@simonster I can try that, I'm tempted to just rebuild my retropie system and see if that fixes the problem since I've already sunk hours into troubleshooting this and could have rebuilt/restored everything in 1/10 the time :)

I would think if anything retropie running on OSMC would be slower since OSMC is still running in the background and using up CPU/Memory.

@popefelix inside the .cue file it can only have the filename of the bin/iso in it with caps and lowercase correct. If the contents of the .cue file is correct then it should work. If not find it from elsewhere.

@darksavior Thanks for the info. I've tried the 7502.bin as well. What I wasn't aware of was that some games have protection, I take it FF8 is one of the games with protection. I tried another game (GTA London) and this worked okay, (not perfectly, but it worked :-D) I'll have to go download the USA set and convert to PBP I guess rather than the EU set.

Im putting the gpio issue on hold for the moment as for some reason my adapter magically started working correctly. I plan to revisit it someday as it would reduce costs if I built one of these for someone else but for now its on hold. However my arduino came today and should make for some fun here soon.
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Glad you got it as you wished :) Here i've just tried Universal XML Scraper V2, it's indeed quite powerful as it allows you different layouts like screenshot + box art + large title or arcade cabinet layouts (with very few unknowns or failures).

@akafox okay thank you! I'll dig in when i get home. :)

Im beginning to think its an issue with either retroarch or raspian itself on how its reading streamed data from a disk. It seems to happen when trying to read music or a video. Not only am i getting pauses and stops in pix games, but also sega cd games. hmmm

@herb_fargus Ok thanks ill look into those also wish i could load my save from SD Gundam G Generation F to F.i.f but it makes a separated save file instead.

I'm working to change the video settings in retroarch to best fit to the bezelproject artwork. I have about 400 games in MAME 2010 and had them all working fine then something happened and now, like others, I get the "Failed saving config to "/opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg" error message.

I've tried deleting the retroarch.cfg file
I've checked permissions and they're pi:pi

I've tried the suggestions listed here and it seems like most of the suggestions here, and over at the retroarch discord are just "try this and cross your fingers."

Surely someone knows what's going on and how to fix it.

pi model: 3b+, 128gb micro sd
power supply: 5.1v 3a
RetroPie version: 4.8
Built from: scratch
USB devices connected: Ultimarc I-PAC Ultimate I/O
Controller used: Ultimarc I-PAC set to keyboard emulation
Error messages received: Failed saving config to "/opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg
File: retroarch
Emulator: mame 2010

Well, after a little more googling, turns out it is the game. If anyone is getting this message playing Suikoden, so far the only fix is save->delete the memory card->repeat. There is no loading from the memory card.

Still looking for another fix, but so far, doesn't look like there is one.

Thank you for the information.
Now I am a bit wiser.

@dankcushions Okay cool, thanks! For the bit of time I tried without the speed hack it seemed to run smoothly but I'll turn on the FPS counter to confirm. So the speed hack does exactly what it says, speeds it up, I guess it was self-explanatory after all.

@capeman said in PSX Skips Startup Screens (and i want them back):

... the epic white screen with the sony logo BZZHHHEEEEWWWWW Bummbity Bummbity OOOOHHH WWWAAAAAAAAA - then the black screen with the playstation logo - SHERRRFFFF BUUUMMMM BIIIMMMMMMMMMMMM buummm biiimmmmmmm ...

That is the best description of that sound I've ever seen! :-D