@BillyH If you haven't fiddled with the RA's configuration, the save files would stay alonside your ROM files, in the roms sub-folders. Once you access the file shares (\\retropie\roms), you can easily check the contents of those folder and see your save files (most of them have the .srm extension).

@Tomato22 said in Scraping not working:

When i try to update my emulationstation package it seems to not be working

What is the error you're getting when you update ? Also, please add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first to your post.

Appreciate your help, got in with the last command! When I go to scrape now I get this error for quite a few games. ERR: error processing /home/arcade/RetroPie/roms/gamegear/Arena (USA, Europe).gg: hash not found

@mitu ok I will read and review the post you sent me, as always thank you for the asist best regards wolfzrat

@mitu Tested, confirmed working with Universal XML scraper

@ClassicGMR Aha. I suppose that happened some time ago, because right now the scraper doesn't work with the new TDGB API/Site. You might want to re-scrape those entries (or the whole list) using another source site (ScreenScraper) or - if you have a recent Emulationstation - scrape them using the internal ES scraper (from either TGDB or Screenscraper).

Thanks for the update. Even better would be to add a [Solved] before your thread's title. You can do that by editing your first post.

@mitu thanks for the info mitu!
I completed my list over the years, but maybe this will be helpful when i find some more exotic games :)

Thankyou for the response looks like good progress has been made.

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@Lumbeechief081 So, if you don't do it already, now that you've learned how quickly you can lose all the work you did is the perfect time to start making backups. 😉

@SeraphisCain The build/install script for the package is not updated right now, you'll need to have a bit more patience - it's not something on your end.

Hi all
I have modified the @hiulit script here so it can run on a generic host with VAAPI hardware encoding

@ReallyRandy Please add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first to your post. Have you updated your RetroPie-setup script before attempting the installation ?

i just noticed the same issue occurs with sega cd and sg-1000

@Fried_Chicken There are two big PC Scrappers: Universal XML Scrapper and Skraper.

Both make the same thing: Scrap your systems and make a xml file.

I tried with Universal XML Scrapper but it gives me random errors, not completing the entire proccess. I recommend Skraper. Look up for videos on how to use it but it is very intuitive.

Also, Skraper will scrap your roms by checking their hash on ScreenScraper.fr. If it doesn't match it will look for the name, which is unreliable, and games will not be scrapped properly. So you'll need clean rom dumps.

There are Romsets which have a clean dump of every rom for many systems and then you can sort them into regions using batch files, so in that way the scrapping and the hash check will work, but as for the rules I won't mention where to find that.

If you find it and you're going to download any romset remember to only use and play with the roms that you legally own, I'm not responsible in that matter.

@sunwind Search for ARRM, this should get you started.

@Chewie said in No Scrapers Are Working:

I have no clue what this means

It means the ROM file has not been registered in the scraper's site so the site doesn't know which game it belongs to.

Just go to \\retropie\ and copy the roms folder to your desktop so you can can send it to any future pies.

I have used the automatic method several times and had no problems. I'd say that if you are able to play games but not scrape them it is mounted correctly.

If scraping worked with the Selph scraper before you started using the USB Mount but it no longer works I'd say that the issue has come about through the USB mount. But your games play so it's not so much a retropie/emulationstation issue. You can't scrape so it's more than likely a scraper issue. My next step if I were in your shoes would be to poke around in the scraper's configuration to see if there's a way to point it to your mounted drive. If I couldn't find a way around that I would do one of two things:

Update the scraper (probably the easiest) Uninstall the Selph scrape, update the retropie-setup script and reinstall the scraper

If neither of those worked I would find someone that knows more about that particular scraper. I'm really not versed in that particular bit of software at all and don't currently have a build in a state to experiment with it (I'm outta SD cards)

I'll try that. Thank you.