@Lolonois
This did work, thanks :)
I don't know what I did, but I made a fresh RetroPie flash again, then run the install twice and it worked

Many thanks mitu Scraper is installable again !

@sleve_mcdichael Well, it took awhile. But I did as you suggtested and wrote it using the retropie buster that you linked, reinstalled everything as before. The stephen selph wont install anymore, keeps popping an error. But I was able to use the built in one (Not the one in the main interface but the one through the alternate packages section) and it worked this time!
Thank you!

@sleve_mcdichael said in A question about EmulationStation scraper.:

I know Skyscraper have this option, but the issue i had with it is the size of 2D box, they are small and not big like ES scraper.

Also configurable: https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper/blob/master/docs/ARTWORK.md

Here is the artwork.xml file I use for a flat box-art and (separate) marquee image:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <artwork> <output type="screenshot" resource="cover"/> <output type="marquee" resource="wheel"/> </artwork>

I used your artwork.xml file and it works!
Without your help I would not have made it, it was to complex for me. Thank you very much!!

Please add some info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@mitu I guess It is your prerogative. No worries at all. It is the learning process which is the most interesting part, and giving back to the community with no interest in profiting at all.

@Folly I got it, thank you.

@duglor cool, let me know if you need help!

@Deathweaver .svm files should go in the main scummvm folder, not within the games' individual sub-folders:

pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms/scummvm $ la atlantis.svm 'Beneath a Steel Sky (CD VGA)' 'Day Of The Tentacle (CD Dos)' 'Flight of the Amazon Queen (CD DOS)' 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (CD DOS)' 'Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (Amiga)' lsl1-amiga.svm 'Maniac Mansion (Floppy DOS v2 Enhanced)' maniac-v2.svm monkey2.svm 'Monkey Island 2 - LeChuck'\''s Revenge (Ultimate Talkie Edition - DOS)' monkey.svm queen-fallback.svm 'Sam and Max Hit the Road (CD DOS)' samnmax.svm sky.svm 'Space Quest 2 - Vohaul'\''s Revenge (Amiga)' sq2-amiga.svm '+Start ScummVM.sh' tentacle.svm 'The Secret Of Monkey Island (Ultimate Talkie Edition - DOS)' pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms/scummvm $

@Crush That is also an option, but sometimes I'd rather get everything scraped on a separate hard drive. Just makes me feel more secure in various ways. I'm probably just silly.

@psun03 which system? Is it one of the supported platforms?

https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper/blob/master/docs/PLATFORMS.md

@mitu nice one... My concern is about heavily customized setups (for example mine) where I have one directory per Arcade manufacturer (although they use the same emulator, they have a different theme setup for example), and directories do not necessarily match the system name, but I guess I can consider that as an edge case.

Thanks Again!

It's an upstream problem, caused by one its dependencies. Use Skyscraper instead.

Just to be safe. In the Retropie setup I can create a config.ini for the Skyscraper. Do I understand it correctly that all default values ​​are used, except for those that I switch on or off via the config.ini? So, for example, if I want to scrape the PC ROMs but not the subdirectories, do I just write --nosubdirs in the config.ini and trigger the process and leave all other settings at the default value?

@KpCollins hi, could I ask you to try with the scraper I'm developing?
https://github.com/zayamatias/retroscraper
It should be working with dragon 32, although I have not tested it, so some testing would be appreciated.

Thanks!

*** Edit: just tried myself and it took less than 2 minutes to scan +530 ROMs, +400 succesfully found and video/image downloaded...

@rasp_renegade said in Scraper crashes ES:

. I had swapped gamelists and forgot, so disregard the part about old files. Anything else useful in that log?

I don't see any issues in the log.

TheGamesDB site is now back online, scraping should work again with this source in EmulationStation.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I should have no problem scraping the region artwork I'm after now.

There are no plans to 'retire' the built-in scraper, improvements are always welcomed.