@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.

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.