@mitu Oh, sorry. Yes, the list of games is still there, just no associated images/videos.

So...go figure...decided to re-scrape those 2 game sets with Skraper...and, bingo, it worked, all images and videos are there, restarted and rebooted just to confirm. Not sure what Skraper does, almost like it made a proprietary setup, but either way, it's working so I guess I should be happy :-)

Thanks for your help!!

@MBRetrocade said in Issue with scrapes:

arcadedb provided a video, but why are we only getting the audio of the video? I have other systems with videos and images, the image will show and then the video will play just fine. So it isn't in the theme? What could be causing this? HELP!

See this recent topic for a similar issue - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/26257/ - some videos are not compatible with vlc/omxplayer and need conversion.

Thank you for your support!

@PanzerDude92 No, it's using the ScreenScraper site for scraping.
I'm not sure if scraping from TheGamesDB has been fixed in the stable release, the development branch for sure has a fix for the TGDB scraper. What version of EmulationStation are you using ?

@mitu

Man I can't thank you enough, it's finally working! If you PM me your details, you have a few beers from me :)

For anyone interested, after registering at screenscraper.fr and going through all SS flags arguments, I think I finally got it right:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -scrape_all=true -download_images=true -download_marquees=true -download_videos=true -console_src="ss,gdb,ovgdb" -mame_src="adb,mamedb,gdb" -use_nointro_name=true -ss_user="user_name" -ss_password="password"

No more errors:

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And it looks like I corrected the issue. I copied the gamelist.xml for Atari 2600 from Emulationstation to the folder that holds the roms. That seems to have done the trick. Thank you guys again for the guidance and help.

I finally got it!!!

As a matter of self-defense, I run a pi-hole as my DNS server. Well, after reading another post referencing turning off the firewall, it gave me the idea to bypass my pi-hole. Once I did that, it was working as it should.

I know the author has abandoned this program, but I really wish he'd come back and put some better error messages in it. Line 26511 doesn't help me. "Hey, I can't get out" would have helped me a great deal and saved me a lot of time and aggravation

@djultimate I always drop the .bin files in a different folder (usually roms\systemnamecopier\ and then scrape, it will go a lot faster that way instead of the scraper hashing every .bin. Once you finish scraping drop the bin files back in the appropriate folder and you're good to go!

@mitu Ah, that would explain why it worked during my last install, but not now. Updating all the core packages at once seemed to ignore the fact that there was a newer version of ES and left me on 2.7.5, so I updated that individually, which put me on 2.7.6, and everything works like it used to now. Thanks for your help there! You've saved me tearing my hair out looking for something I would never would have found by myself! :)

Please add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

i opened a topic of the scraper that wasnt working at all (thanks for the help :) ) as i "succeded" or at least partially to make it work i though it would be something for another topic, no?

@mitu thankyou it showed up now.

Scraper ran buy nothing seemed to change from the built-in scraper. I have turned on video snaps and es was off before running.

I have a backup image prior to any games going on running the built-in scraper so I might revert back to that and see how it goes.

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

@arcee84 I will remove. I would recommend not signing up in the future to forums if you're going to make a few posts then ask for the account to be removed. It's a waste of your time and mine.

@starrslytleangel said in PSX Game Metadata does not save after exit error message:

By downloading the image will it erase what I have put on the retro pi?

Once you flash the official image to your card, it will erase everything prior, leaving you with a clean system.

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

@melbmatt50 said in Retropie issues with WiFi setup and Scraper:

Now during startup it asks for a login and password which I would rather it didn't so I want to disable that.

It's enough to login once - after the upgrade - and re-configure auto-login using sudo raspi-config. Unfortunately that's part of Raspbian and it's not under RetroPie's control. See this topic for solutions to this problem.

Secondly I got a 64gb sd card so I could load more stuff on it but etcher won't verify it after burning the image to it and I get the following message during installation on my raspberry pi 3 model b+ Kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(179,2). If you can help me I would be grateful. Its a sandisk ultra 64gb class 10 card.

The error seems to indicate badly/imcomplete written image. If the verification doesn't work, maybe the SD card is faulty ?

Its a mess...
after trying numours installations i cant fix it. The issue is too annoying too look over. Im done.

@mitu said in PSX scraping woes:

@baviaannl Have you checked the video files - played them in another video player ? Maybe they're encoded differently and (even) VLC cannot play them. If it's not the gamelist, maybe it's the videos.

VLC on my Mac can play these files OK, tried a few media players without any issues.

Quick update.

I went through and cleaned up some of my rom folders and deleted all game lists and downloaded images on my PI. ES scraped ones and sselphs. I ended up running sselphs and turned out pretty good. 1 snes was hack-link which I expected, zelda parallel worlds. Which from maybe my reddit post, hack-link is the default screenscrapper image when it can't find a image. Another system, forgetting now, had maybe 10. That one has good videos and images but the name was hack-link. Switched it and was good. Nes did have a good amount but did actually download correct images and video. I noticed that most were showing correct info but in the game list the <name> was hack-link. Changed it and was good, it was just the name display that was wrong for most.

The ones left that didn't work and were fill the the psp hack-link name and info looked to be duplicates /versioned copies of a game. For instance super mario, super mario [a1], super mario [a2]. That might not be an exact example but a similar scenario. As I find them I'll fix them manually.