I actually just did something similiar which worked perfectly. I just took an in game video clip with my phone. I installed the Pixel environment. I uploaded it to youtube. Then used youtube2mp3 to convert it to an mp4. I downloaded it to the pi via Pixel. renamed it to the game name-video.mp4. Placed it in the images folder. Then i rebooted and selected the game and edited the meta data with the file path under video. Then saved and exited. Works perfectly. Now i can do that on the other 3 games i do not have videos for and the ones that wont play and i should be golden.

@baronharkonnen said in How to add alternative scraper with no ~ symbol ( where is it): Still looking for a solution to add a scraper here without that bloody symbol @mitu explained.. if you see the ~ symbol replace it with /home/pi/

@maxxtc Scraped info is kept in /opt/retropie/config/all/emulationstation/gamelists (also available via file shares at \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\gamelists, each system has its own gamelist.xml that stores this info. If you wish to remove this info, then exit Emulationstation and delete the gamelist.xml files with the wrong info. Starting Emulationstation again will re-create those files from scratch, but without any of the info you scraped.

@bifelix89 Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first Asking for help without even trying to look this up or understanding what this means, results in more work for others, even if some awesome members already put work into a clear explanation, is bad (I guess)... Looking your "problem" up in the docuentations/wikis/github pages (or even on google) would have given you the right answer... However: This isn't an error... It just means that the scraper could not found the name of the rom (or in this case the hash of it) in the metadata/image database! This basicly means that there is no metadata/image for this game. You might be able to "solve" this by using another database

Problem solved using No-intro roms :) Thank you all for your comments.

@vbs I'd recommend you to take a look here: https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/4690/soft-universal-xml-scraper-v2

@cyperghost The only change I made to the code was to remove @amadeus email address. Since he's no longer maintaining it I didn't want him to keep getting emails about it. I may start looking into improving on the code but I'm really not much of a programmer. I'd be happy to add someone as a contributor to the project though.

Ahh, I mounted it in the mnt as another folder and just redirected the es_systems to look there for the roms. I didn't even think to do it this way. thanks for the tip bud