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.

Skyscraper supports https://www.worldofspectrum.org as a scraping source., which also lists ZX81 programs.

@IanDaemon I think the „playing“ part is much too big in this diagram. 😉

@mitu i ended up getting it fixed I just deleted the game list.xml and image folder and put the rom directly in the folder instead of in a folder inside of a folder. not sure why it did that with the nes games because I scraped a couple sega cd games before that , they were structured the same way (roms/segacd/game/game files) and it didn’t fail to reload EmulationStation but it placed the image in the last folder. Maybe because those games have multiple game files in the folder instead of just 1. I’ll see what happens with the ps1 games .

@seagal By the way, if you're using ScreenScraper intensively, a donation or even monthly subscription via Patreon or Tipee.com would be an appropriate acknowledgement of their work and also help to cover their expenses running the website. (This is just my personal opinion, I'm not affiliated to ScreenScraper in any way aside from a normal user account.)

@mitu That's beyond my expertise... For another day perhaps.

@mitu I am using the "scraper" not the other one called "skyscraper". The source is "screenscraper", I tried the others but are worst

@Deltax5 said in retropi doesn't show video but sound works?: Looking thru the folders using WinSCP i noticed skyscraper is located at /opt/retropie/configs/all/skyscraper/ Do i just copy the the cache folder and copy it to a new image when the time comes? will that work so i don't need to scrap them. Or do i put it in the import folder? It will save time then rescraping everything. You should really read the docs on Skyscraper - especially the part about the cache.

@thelostsoul said in screenscraper.fr site not available anymore?: Does it have any impact on the scraper in RetroPie or any other scraper? Well, it did - at least for the internal ES scraper. For other scrapers, I don't think so, otherwise I image it would have been reported.

@njscorpio I am having the same issue as you, all was working fine prior updating to 4.5. However if I enable OMX player it makes no difference, in face it is worst as no videos play. This issue for me is only related to Mame preview videos. Everything else works fine. I might try downloading the mame videos again, but does anyone have any idea what the issue could be?

I think that's not supported at the moment, but I think it's a planned feature (custom platform aliases). I see you found a workaround in the mean time :).

@cwalk828 Usually this is up to the theme, the scraper just downloads the files (images/videos) and adds them to the gamelist.xml used by Emulationstation. But I don't think this is supported by Emulationstation (playing video in the bg) - if you're interested in this kind of display I think Pegasus (another front-end) might support this.

@thelostsoul said in Is there a way to manually update thegamesdb.net API in sselph scraper? Or, what else scrapes videos?: Please allow me this. @njscorpio said in Is there a way to manually update thegamesdb.net API in sselph scraper? Or, what else scrapes videos?: Skyscraper has been very effective. Love it!

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

@Tackskull The gamelist.xml needs to have the assignments for each and every piece of media. If its a new .xml it won't have any direction to the scraped graphics. I'm sure there must be a way for it to work, in emulationstation there is an option for local media, I don't know what that means but I always thought it was something like that. In skyscraper there are options for local media, but I don't know if it would work like that without the cached database for everything.

@mottosys Please provide more info about your system, as asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. Which scraper is not working ? RetroPie has a few scrapers installed now - are you talking about the Emulationstation scraper or the external scraper(s) ?