The lingering 20 GB won't do anything detrimental to your system. So, if you don't need the space, I would just leave them there in the case that you'll need them sometime in the (far) future.

@mitu Just did final test. It all worked out perfectly. Cache has been moved to the external drive using the path to retropie-mount. The only thing that was weird was after nano-ing into the config.ini, I got the same error message, even after the MicroSD was cleared of the cache. It was just a black screen with the error message at the bottom. However, after hitting ctrl + r to give a command to read a file, I just typed in config.ini into the prompt, and then the file decided to open and let me edit it. Aside from small bump, everything worked out perfectly.

Good to hear, and thanks for sharing the outcome, as even "I overlooked something" can be an important hint for others. 👍

There are a few game list generators that will create a game list from your art and roms and put them nicely together is a .xml file.

I have heard good things about Gengal though I have not used it myself.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9486/gengal-gamelist-xml-generator?_=1590434755524

Hope this helps

Rgds

CCF

Thanks @mitu. Good news. I looked around but I couldn't find a log file but while I was looking I found a gamelist file and a videos folder in my Roms/Arcade folder. I deleted them and regenerated the gameslist in Skyscraper. The Arcade section now works perfectly.

Thanks again

Ah, so it's not the RetroPie system that you cannot see, it's the EmulationStation menu. Did you, by any chance, switched EmulationStation to Kid mode ?

Fantastic! Thank you to both of you for your responses.

AARM is a great tool! Exactly what I was looking for.

It's in the Games & Front End tab, you can change the folder where the ROM files are searched and also the file extensions.

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Yup, converting to CHD solved the original problem. Now it’s nice and fast! Converting all PSX to CHD now which will take a while but be worth it in the end.

@mitu said in Scraping in EmulationStation not working..:

Please add more info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
What scraping source are you using ? There are 2 options in EmulationStation - TheGamesDB and ScreenScraper - and the former is not functional at the moment.

Do you know when TheGamesDB will be functional again?

This is from the website:
"Update:
due to certain family commitments, we were not able to get the latest backup as of yet.
for now, we're using a READ ONLY old backup, and the API is also back online,
but using the prefix /v1/ which is both to get devs to explicitly make sure old data doesn't just crash their apps,
but this prefix will remain as our main endpoint for this api going forward (aka once latest backup is restored)"

Is this something we can change? Change it to use the prefix v1, whatever that means xD

I've created a pull request for this on the EmulationStation repo -- https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/630

@bfollowell It's possible that the data you had already scraped was cached on your computer and that was why previously successful scrapes still appeared to scrape correctly and new scrapes did not.

@IanDaemon I think the „playing“ part is much too big in this diagram. 😉

@muldjord ok. Thank you for a great application!

Okay, for some reason, the screen command needs an sh after the -L on a Raspbian-based Retropie. sh starts a new shell with the script in it. On my Desktop PC running Kubuntu Linux 18.04, the command works without the sh, but on my Raspberry Pi running Retropie, it needs the sh to work as intended.

Whatever, please try this with an sh behind -L:

screen -S bezelproject -L sh /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/bezelproject.sh

@mitu

Thank mitu for your response, I have got an account, I don't know were to post the missing images.

But all of a sudden my missing image has appeared after continue attempts since yesterday of scraping the same game over and over.

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@cwalk828 said in Scraper stopped mid-run:

Is gamesdb down?

It doesn't seem so, but there's a monthly quota of requests allowed per client - I think 2500 (?). If you've gone over that quota, scraping will not return any results.

@mitu
Guess u right :
thanks