@sith-lord-goz You may try with Skyscraper 3.16 which adds --query="id=<IGDB-id>". However, the Game filename must have some similarity with the IGDB Game Title. Also the GameBase DB import from the SpeccyMania GameBase may come in handy.

@mathan416 Does this happen when the screensaver is started or later when the system is reaching "sleep" state (see Screensaver Options -> System sleep time: If it is 0 then there is no "sleep" timeout but only the screensaver timeout).

Thanks for the info, to workaround the issue I was able to choose the games from a list in the scraper since I changed the platform and it was not found. It only worked w/ TGDB, not screenscraper, but I was able to scape the games I needed

@kiro

Great !
I loved the Amiga too.
The latest Amiberry is quite good though, definitely need to play it more often ;-)

@sleve_mcdichael Exactly, I couldn't override any rules that screenscraper may set in terms of limits or others in their APIs

@sleve_mcdichael Thank you. It makes so much sense. I tried purging the esgamelist cache and then re-generated the artwork with Skyscraper. Worked like a charm. I took some inspiration from your settings and applied them myself too.

Finally, a big thank you for taking the time to explain the differences between marquee and wheel. I went close to bananas trying to understand the definitions.

@sleve_mcdichael Yep, it is not ready for github yet, but it is a heavy revisited version of my old scraper:

https://github.com/zayamatias/sscraper

Great responses here, thank you so much. Of course it does come down to personal preference but your responses are helping me determine which way I want to go, so please don't think there's no value in the discussion. :-)

I'm currently trying re-encoding some videos with Handbrake to see how that goes and if it's worth pursuing. I think I'm probably trying to have my cake and eat it (which to some degree you can do with Retropie lol), but I still have a bit of thinking to do about which way I'm gonna go ultimately.

Guys and gals here - you rock, as always. Thanks again. ;-)

@sleve_mcdichael @mitu thanks for the help. I reversed all the changes I made except for the location of the cache, just like in @sleve_mcdichael's example. Everything seems to be working now.

@mitu Thanks. Much appreciated.

@clyde his accent is surprisingly Dutch when speaking English. The r’s for example.

@tpr glad you like it. for basic stuff it was really good.

I just wanted to answer here and ask for more information, then I noticed that you already gave it in your second thread. Please don't open multiple threads about one topic.

@mitu said in Using ES Scraper - How can I automatically save images to ROM folders?:

@tpr said in Using ES Scraper - How can I automatically save images to ROM folders? png to ico:

Is there a way to force the built-in scraper to use those directories?

No, there is no option for the built-in EmulationStation scraper to change the download location. If space is a concern, then you can symlink the downloaded_images folder to a folder on the external drive.

Thank you very much for the explanation.

Yes, you can use ARRM.

@mitu

Thanks Mitu. I ended up using locate to find any corresponding gamelist.xml for the Naomi folder(s) and wiped them, then I just started from scratch, adding one game at a time and it looks like it finally took the information. I must have missed something in there, but just copy/pasting by hand finally nixed the issue.

It was so weird. Before that it was even naming stuff totally wrong. Like I had MegaMan 3 for NES Playchoice listed in the Naomi folder. And a LOT of the games were being listed as Power Instinct, which is not on the Naomi. No idea why it was generating games that weren't in the folder at all.

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