@bryan617 said in Nested ROM folders and box art: Is there any way to have the box art for NES and SNES show up without taking the ROMs out of their nested folders and placing them directly in their system folder? Short answer - no. The folder doesn't have box art, so it's normal you're seeing the boxartonly when entering the folder and looking at the actual ROM.

Why isn't screenscraper.fr's content mirrored on the Internet Archive? Seems like exactly the sort of thing they'd collect.

Thx! That is actually a good interim solution.

So scraping from one of the API services is still better than trying to find a dump somewhere online I'm guessing, due to ROM compatibility...

@RetroRick said in where do I put the CREDENTIALS from SCREENSCRAPER.fr in retropie for SkyScraper OR SS Scraper?: $HOME .emulationstation/downloaded_media but will not show up on the metadata screen, nor play. You might have an existing gamelist that's overriding the one generated by the scraper.

@mitu said in Best way to scrape ONE GAME?: Right now it looks like ScreenScraper has given back access to non-registered users, so scraping from EmulationStation (using ScreenScraper) should work. It should be possible to use screenscraper.fr credentials within ES. Is there a reason why this isn't implemented?

@mitu thank you , I'll test it and update

I use openretro for images, and screenscraper for info. Then execute de "generate game list"

Due to heavy load, I know Screenscraper has disabled it's API to non registered users. Try using a different API, or register an account with Screenscraper then use a scraper that can be configured to use your login credentials, Skyscraper has a line in it's config,ini as mentioned above. I've been using Skraper. It runs on Windows and scrapes through samba shares.

@mitu ok, thank you!

@muldjord Thanks! I'll still be giving Skyscraper another go of course! There's still lots more scraping to be done.

I just created an account on screenscraper.fr . I edited the file with my login info and now it seems to be working for the most part. However it only missed a few games? Maybe I did the scraper thing right?

@quicksilver Yes I made an account a while back and it’s in the skyscraper config.

'ss' is the internal one used by ScreenScraper. So it's not a region per-se. I am actually not sure what they use it for. EDIT: I have pretty much all of them in my Skyscraper docs here. Skyscraper uses an internal region priority list as documented there. It will also auto-detect regions based on the filename. Also documented at that link.

ScreenScraper has a limit of requests per day (like TheGamesDB has) - you may be over that limit or simply their servers are too busy and they're only servicing registered users.

@vehige33 You just repeated your first message - I asked for more details about your setup and a specific SNES game that doesn't scrape. I just scraped some SNES games right now from EmulationStation and I didn't have an issue - so it doesn't seem to be an issue with the scraper(s) or the source site (ScreenScraper).

Since the scrapers usually get the info from an external site, the easiest solution would be to add that information there. Otherwise, I know Skyscraper has an import scraping module where you can add your own information, complementing what's on the source site, but that has to be done for each ROM - so it's just like editing the information manually from EmulationStation or directly adding that information to the gamelist.xml file.