Yes, I figured out about nesting layers, so I got the alignment working. I couldn't get the resizing of the wheel.png to work the way I wanted, so I just adjusted the 'box' so that it worked for the tallest wheel.png when they were all adjusted by width. It's not totally perfect but with such a variance in wheel.png sizes and shapes I think it looks pretty uniform. Now to run it on all the other systems and hope it comes out OK. Edit: Just tweaked the box so rather than having its own border in the png it just uses the stroke feature to match the border on the screen shot. Not thrilled with the banding that gets introduced with skyscraper.

@mitu said in Scraper accuracy?: @MisterMints This corresponds to 4.4.4 - you should have skyscraper as a module in the experimental packages section. Did you also update the packages ? I did, but still "no game found" This happens whether I go via the scraper option from pressing start and doing it on a system by system basis, or edit this games meta data on individual ROMs. I have go sselph and skyscraper working now so it's no big issue and they both seem to be very accurate so far

Turns out the only gamelist that was created was in ~/RetroPie/roms/retropie/gamelist.xml , (there was only this single one on my whole disk, and I did search for hidden files, too). But in the retropie_setup.sh -> tools -> scraper options, I had disabled (or forgotten to enable) that the .xmls be put in their respective rom directories. So I deleted the single gamelist and image folder (that contained metadata for >10 systems), scraped again, since I really couldn't be bothered with manually sorting metadata for >4k Roms into different folders, and this time everything was saved to the right locations! Thank you very much for providing me with the correct locations, the problem is solved now and the thread can be closed.

@ANDRELLVS Thanks for adding an explanation to your tutorial about what the batch file actually does.

I'm using Carbon theme also. :)

@webz0r I'm not sure how you would do this, but you don't need to worry about keeping the gamelist.xml in alphabetical order.

Skraper (skraper.net) can get the manuals for the games scraped, provided they're available.

@mitu said in Skyscraper now officially part of RetroPie, please test: I don't see a point in using it They seem to have the best base for PC games, which may come in handy soon when Moonlight script gets integrated into RetroPie. But yeah, I guess invoking Skyscraper from CLI is also fine.

Well it appears that TOSEC hasn't quite completed their datfiles for like Game Boy Advance, SNES and some other Nintendo systems, but they still have a huge set of dat files. They even tagged some bad dumps mainly for the Commodore 64 and Amiga as those tapes and disks aren't as robust as those ROM cartridges. Besides we may not know which ROMs are corrupt that can give out a irrevelant bug report to RetroPie as those bad dump ROMs are not wanted.

@mitu thanks, but i think i'll stick with gamesdb. The systems supported by the scraper provided with emulationstaion in retropieare listed in its GitHub page. An alternative may be Skraper; it's avaiable for Windows and linux, but it's still an alpha and for the latter it is required WINE.

@87th-e You should get the latest Emulationstation for Windows and see if the problem is solved.

So after alot of google'ing and scraping i think the problem vanished, i tried to use the Universal XML Scraper and it seems to have successfully overwritten the buggy boxart stuff, never find out why the problem started though ^^

@edmaul69 Thanks for the reply and suggestion. Im new with retropie and googled my way through the setup i have now, so i have to really think about what u have just said and understand it :) But before i try your suggestion, isnt their a way to manually scrape it? because i also have a pack of famicom video snaps and box art.

Not sure what OS you're using but the default location is configs\all\emulationstation\downloaded_images[system_name] and you can remove them from there For example: if I were to do this from my Windows machine I would open Windows explorer and browse the RETROPIE computer shown with the other computers attached to my network and then browse the above address. Then sort the folder contents by filetype and delete the unwanted video files

@orehruoy Ignore my post. I must not have reset after updating so it didn't take effect yet. Working now though.

@mitu thanks for the help, I updated my es core and the scraper is now working.

@darishzone The gamelist XML file format is really straightforward and easy to read and edit. Don't be afraid to experiment. If you're editing the files from a PC, I recommend using Notepad++ for this.