@mitu thank you, that was the problem yes

@mitu thank you as always! Will give this a go.

@crush
ah you guys are legends - thank you!

@goestohollywood This is specifically Skyscraper at default settings.

@mitu Sorry, that's what I meant, but thank you for clarifying. I'm thinking of trying again with a single emulator and see if it works. Does that make sense?

EmulationStation will use the gamelist.xml ROMs folder, if found, otherwise it looks in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/<system>. The 2 files are not combined, just one of them is used, in that order.

If you enabled the 'Use Local Art' option in EmulationStation's settings, it will try find a video matching the game by looking under roms/<system>/media/<ROM_NAME>-video.mp4, so even if there's no video declared in gamelist.xml, it might still find a video associated with it.

In fact, what would be the best way to ensure that I get both videos and correct information into my setup?

Don't mix the scrapers if you want video - the internal scraper doesn't support videos so it might overwrite the video tags if you re-scrape with it. Use the external scraper and see which videos have issues - some arcade videos are incompatible with RPI's hardware video codecs and might not play correctly.

@clyde said in Scraper fails on PS1 .chd files where it succeeded with .cue+.bin:

I'm using RetroPie's chdman and Skyscraper with my PS1 and Mega/Sega CD games, and I have only one game that can't be scraped in either cue or chd form (Kyuutenkai: Fantastic Pinball).

Thanks for this, it finally forced me to figure out SkyScraper. OMG the SkyScraper output looks so much better than the default scraper, and it handled the CHDs like a champ.

Aha, I get it now.

My primary monitor is running at 720p. So the second display has to run at that aspect ratio as well. So since my second display is 1280x390, I need to scale up my image height by 1.85 for them to look right.

When I did that, it looks good. It doesn’t fill up the entire display, I’m not sure why. But at least it looks much better.

Now I just need to automate the whole thing somehow.

@mitu Thank you!

@tpr glad you like it. for basic stuff it was really good.

I just wanted to answer here and ask for more information, then I noticed that you already gave it in your second thread. Please don't open multiple threads about one topic.

@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.

@zodiark12 said in Scraper:

If so I will enable them but after scraping can I empty the cache without affecting the medias in the rom folders?

Skyscraper first downloads the media to the cache, then it will copy it to the media folder where EmulatonStation reads it (being it in the ROM folder or not) in a subsequent step - when you generate the gamelists. Once you finish scraping, yes, you can clear the cache and have only 1 copy of the artwork/video/etc.

TODAY Update from ScreenScraper.fr

RedblueflameAujourd’hui à 12:41
Hi everyone !
After a pretty long downtime (we're sorry about that), the screenscraper servers are finally back on ! To prevent our servers to melt down due to the massive influx of requests, they are running with a limited number of concurrent requests, so you may experience latency problems as the queue grows up.
We wanted to thank everyone with your kind messages sent on our discord server, and happy scrapping !
The screenscraper team

RedblueflameAujourd’hui à 15:53
Hi everyone !
Until tomorrow, the access to the website will be cut off. Until then, the website won't be available, but the api will. Your scraps should still be working.

Both scrapers have limits on the # of requests you're allowed to make. TheGamesDB has a monthly quota of about 15000 requests (not sure), while ScreenScraper will give you I think 10000 requests daily. If you exhausted your request limit, you'll not be able to scrape - you'll have to wait.

EDIT: seems like ScreenScraper has a few problems at the moment and scraping from it will not work until they sort out the issue.

@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

I am using the scraper (not the skyscraper). It looks like the problem is just for scrape the GBA, because I just scraped the PSP wihout problems

@spm2600 Remove the gamelist.xml generated for that system - you can find it in either the rom folder or in \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\gamelists\<system>.