@naLnoc Skyscraper or Skraper are good options, ARRM also works nicely.

@sohailoo Thanks for the info.

For metadata, you will need to install Selph's scraper from the setup script. Once done, then exit ES and run the following command from the terminal or a SSH session:

cd RetroPie/roms/psx /opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -img_format=png -image_dir="./boxart" -image_path="./boxart" -download_images=false -image_suffix="" -marquee_dir="./wheel" -marquee_path="./wheel" -download_marquees=false -marquee_suffix="" -video_dir="./snap" -video_path="./snap" -download_videos=false -video_suffix=""

The above is an example for creating a gamelist XML for Playstation (PSX). For the other systems, the working directory needs to be changed with a command such as cd ../snes/ before running the scraper.

For arcade roms, remember to include the -mame parameter in the scraper command.

PROBLEM RESOLVED!

I tried a full reinstall (I uninstalled Amiberry, rebooted, deleted all remaining config files, rebooted, reinstalled Amiberry from source) and this solved the problem. All my games (so far) now load with their verbose filenames. It even solved some, but not all, of my problems with games giving "Volume DH0 is write protected" as an error.

Thanks for all the help.

@cannuck23 It should be working fine now - give it a try.

Hm, 720x480 is not quite 4:3, though CEA 2 is reported as 4:3

tvservice -m CEA Group CEA has 16 modes: mode 1: 640x480 @ 60Hz 4:3, clock:25MHz progressive mode 2: 720x480 @ 60Hz 4:3, clock:27MHz progressive mode 3: 720x480 @ 60Hz 16:9, clock:27MHz progressive mode 4: 1280x720 @ 60Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz progressive mode 5: 1920x1080 @ 60Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz interlaced mode 7: 720x480 @ 60Hz 16:9, clock:27MHz x2 interlaced (prefer) mode 16: 1920x1080 @ 60Hz 16:9, clock:148MHz progressive mode 17: 720x576 @ 50Hz 4:3, clock:27MHz progressive mode 18: 720x576 @ 50Hz 16:9, clock:27MHz progressive mode 19: 1280x720 @ 50Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz progressive mode 20: 1920x1080 @ 50Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz interlaced mode 22: 720x576 @ 50Hz 16:9, clock:27MHz x2 interlaced mode 31: 1920x1080 @ 50Hz 16:9, clock:148MHz progressive mode 32: 1920x1080 @ 24Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz progressive mode 33: 1920x1080 @ 25Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz progressive mode 34: 1920x1080 @ 30Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz progressive

@mitu said in Scraping help, not reading info from hdd:

gamelist.xml

Thank you very much for your reply I have managed to fix it now!
I have edited my original post and added the soloution at the bottom.

much appreciated once again, and not to worry ive more questions on the way lol.

@RyanT Please give more details about your setup - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. What game/system are you trying to scrape and it's not working ? Give me a concrete example.

@ANDRELLVS Thanks for adding an explanation to your tutorial about what the batch file actually does.

Anyone?

I only have pics scraped. I used the default scraper, so I will backup my roms folder and the mentioned paths, I hope they are accesible in windows over the network . :)

@mitu thanks, but i think i'll stick with gamesdb. The systems supported by the scraper provided with emulationstaion in retropieare listed in its GitHub page.

An alternative may be Skraper; it's avaiable for Windows and linux, but it's still an alpha and for the latter it is required WINE.

@greenhawk84

That's a very nice trick. Until now, I was under the impression that AdvanceMAME was the only arcade emulator where the BIOS files and clones could reside away from a main ROM grouping. Thanks for sharing this.

Not sure what OS you're using but the default location is configs\all\emulationstation\downloaded_images[system_name] and you can remove them from there

For example: if I were to do this from my Windows machine I would open Windows explorer and browse the RETROPIE computer shown with the other computers attached to my network and then browse the above address. Then sort the folder contents by filetype and delete the unwanted video files

@DougA @quicksilver Thanks!

I wonder if I was able to make a list of the games I need the USA region art for that maybe someone could make me a zip?

@jonnykesh , I've had good luck with Universal (mentioned above) and it makes it pretty easy to tweak some that might be missed.

@trailjacker I personally don't know a lot about scrapers. I usually use sselph's scraper and then manually add videos on my own, though I'm using an old version of the scraper.

Sorry I'm not more helpful here - maybe a separate thread with that particular question may help?