@synersist if you are using screenscraper.fr it is down right now.

The Retro Arena posted

screenscraper.fr "We are sorry to have to close the site and the API until minimum Thursday morning. Our database has suffered damage from these mysql indexes.
We will try to recreate them after deleting them to see if that fixes the current mysql connection problems.
Rest assured we haven't lost any data
Thank you again for your patience."

If you have more than one RPi setup then you can simply copy files instead of re-scraping. (And you can create or "tweak" images/text.)

@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?

@muldjord success! I updated and scraped and all the culprits were found correctly (two weren't but they always were tricky ones to scrape so not an issue).

Many thanks for the heads up!

I broke the scraper so it was hidden. Update RetroPie-Setup and it should back again. Thanks @mitu for the heads up.

@eldgrim As far as the missing hashes, you could try a different database, as some may have hashes that others do not. You could also try the built in scraper in ES which let's you use a keyboard to alter the ROM name as you scraper so you can look it up and fix it real time. You won't get videos in the ES scraper but you might at least get metadata and a picture. If it's a handful of games you can also add the data/picture manually by editing the gamelist.xml file and adding an entry.

For the PSX games I'd double check that you don't have two cue files in the folder.

@mitu thank you. I did try changing sources with Steve's scraper, but I still get nothing.

I'll do the upgrade and see what happens.

@a12c4 I think that it chooses, depending on the front-end, which tags are supported it only adds the ones it knows they're ok. I've only used it for the image (mix) and marquee.

@buzz I've just checked and Scraper got installed successfully.

Deleting /opt/retropie/supplementary/golang/ and running sudo ./retropie_packages.sh scraper was the solution.

Thank you so much

Screech thanks for the info!!!!

Although not the correct way, I did figure out how to get the best of both worlds. After generating the gamelist.xml using UXS, I edited the file and removed all the <name> tags. The result - I have the original names that I'm used to AND I have snaps/descriptions for all the games (mame)

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I am still having the same problem with the built-in-EmulationStation scraper.

As TheGameDB.net guys state in their FB page on September 8:
"Hey guys and girls,
Happy Friday! :D
There'll be a small amount of disruption to the service shortly while be perform an
upgrade of some of the equipment in our server rack. It shouldn't take long and we'll
post an update once we've completed the works."

Their site is back on but the API is still facing some difficulties.

I updated to 4.2.3 last night and installed it from optional packages.