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

@Potatopops9 It's explained in the Docs. However, the scraper does not currently work even if you'll be updating right now - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/20613/

@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.

@steptoe Started out with my old work laptop that had a Linux on it, installed Retropie just to tinker around and ended up with an arcade machine build around it :-) Since I had most components laying around, the cost was around 100 euro...well worth the price!

@steptoe Precisely!

I have been setting up my Pi2 for almost a year now and it's been quite a bumpy but rewarding ride. Bumpy because I'm not remotely tech-savy and know diddly-squat about Linux, but rewarding for the experience in itself: building the romsets, configuring emulators, choosing ES themes and now scraping roms... seeing it all come together as something that I could only dream of as a teenager is truly heartwarming.

Very soon it will be finally ready to simply plug and play! :)

Thank you!

@stoney66 said in EmulationStation Scraper saving html file as image:

megaman looks like he is playing ping pong

Yep, it's all I see in the forums :).

@mitu , thanks mate, exactly what I was looking for.

Nice, 100% done. Thank you so much, that worked!

Ultimately, it doesn't matter too much. You can just leave it in the folder structure that your preferred scraper creates, or change it entirely. As long as gamelist.xml points to the correct location, use whatever strikes your fancy.

The exception to this is that runcommand prefers there to be an images folder inside each system if it is going to use individual rom launching pictures. I don't know if there is a way to change that default location.

@clyde thank you guys, you really assisted me. Appreciate all.

Ok, now i did the change by hand and created a second xml file with the additional custom data. Whenever I do scrape with Seten Selphs Scraper, I need to add the custom data by hand.