@fruitybit Seems the wiki page is not clear enough or offers some outdated (?) information. Glad it works out.

@greenhawk84 I'm mostly talking about editing the file itself, as long as you edit the metadata through the ES editor that's fine. Post the gamelist file on pastebin.com if you don't find the culprit , so we can have a look.

I wonder if I was able to make a list of the games I need the USA region art for that maybe someone could make me a zip?

There is a third scraper as well and it much more powerful than both of the other scrapers. The scraper is called Skyscraper - search Skyscraper RetroPie and you'll find it.

@natemac The inbuilt scraper saves in /home/pi/.emulationstation/ There is a downloaded_images and a gamelist folder. Using sselph scraper you probably stored your metadata in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/system_name/
AFAIK the system should read both. Delete the gamelist and any images folder from /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/and it should read and display those in ~/.emulationstation/

@frankenbenz Good to hear. If there was a general issue with the scraper install we definitely would have heard more about it by now.
Sometimes things just get screwy for no obvious reason. Computers, eh?

WOAW ... like write me @screech it is very complicated around the world to found an unique "PEGI" value lol
So many systems in so many countries ...

ESRB, PEGI, CERO, DJCTQ, OFLC, BBFC, USK, ELSPA, VET et SFB, aDeSe, SELL,......

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Système_d'évaluation_des_jeux_vidéo

To make easier to use and understand every where, as soon as a classification info is added to ScreenScraper, it looks at the lowest value, and create a SS classification. Age by Age, if i understand fine from 3 to 18. 15 values.

It is the good solution for every one. And easy to understand because it is almost the Year of the children.
For the skinners it is easy too, because it make 15 images of PEGI or ESRB for exemple, and some are same to concord with the official rule.

PEGI :
from 1 to 6 : 6 images
from 7 to 11 : 5 images
from 12 to 15 : 4 images
from 16 to 17 : 2 images
for 18 and more : 1 image

ESRB :
from 1 to 9 : 9 images
from 10 to 12 : 3 images
from 13 to 16 : 4 images
for 17 : Mature : 1 image
for 18 and more : 1 image

And i wish the default value (if the input is empty) was : 10 to stay in games for every one.

@ckp sometimes the filename has (!) or (u) right before extension, and the scraper don't recognize the game just because of these things. Take a look and try again without these things.

Question 1 sorted by getting no intro sets and cleaning it up manually, bit easier than regular sets.

Will bump this once to see if anyone has solutions to question 2

@mydriaze Oh, the games still go in the megadrive folder, the platform.cfg file just changes the display and scrapping settings.

Oh, this is the txt you'd need in the platform.cfg file if you create it:

megadrive_theme="genesis"
megadrive_platform="genesis"
pcengine_theme="tg16"
pcengine_platform="tg16"

Then after creating that file and putting it in /opt/retropie/configs/all/ you need to update the TG and genesis cores, and you're good to go.

@kmetz7547 Could you post some example game entries from your gamelist.xml before and after scraping?

Which system are you scraping for?

The standard naming scheme for snaps is [romname]-image.jpg, [romname] being the filename of the rom without its extention. E.g., somerom.zip's snap would be named somerom-image.jpg in the "images" folder.

To my knowledge, Selph's scraper doesn't scrape artwork that's already there, so if your artwork is properly named and you delete/rename your gamelist.xml, only the metadata should be scraped again.

edit: Videos are named [romname]-video.mp4 (or whatever extension the video file has).

@jell yes, sorry for having described my problem poorly, it is all in lowercase indeed (downloaded_images, rom folder, gamelist folder and all the path references)

@jonnykesh you nailed it... just wow... i thought gamelist files were only located in the specific /gamelists/xxx/ folder and never noticed there could be one inside the /roms/xxx/ folder as well. I always worked with the former one. Now i feel stupid. I guess having spent an entire day on that is punishment enough. While i was also thinking of a possible second gamelist file, i initiated a file search via WinSCP from root directory and it would only show me the ones located in ./opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/xxx/ I now figured the one in the /roms/xxx/ folder is optionnal but will take priority over the one in /gamelists/xxx/ folder.

Thanks guys!

@retroguy23 mediamogui is correct but I honestly do not keep my images and gamelist there. I keep them in the /home/(user)/roms/(system) folder. Ex. home/pi/RetroPie/roms/megadrive/images/ (Just easier for me I guess :P I have done a LOT of hand editing on my lists)

Emulationstation is programed to look there in the default then there in the rom folder if one is not found in the default folder.

Just easier and faster to get to my roms on my pi (or other linux system)
so your gamelist.xml is in the rom folder. For example my megadrive list is in the megadrive/roms folder (one game list per folder). That is:

my megadrive gamelist is located in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/megadrive/gamelist.xml

The start of my game list looks like this:
...
<game>
<path>./Sonic the Hedgehog (USA, Europe).smd</path>
<name>Sonic The Hedgehog <-(this can be anything you want)</name>
<desc>Sonic the Hedgehog is the first of many games...</desc>
<image>./images/Sonic the Hedgehog (USA, Europe)-image.jpg</image>
<video>./images/Sonic the Hedgehog (USA, Europe)-video.mp4</video>

see the image and video tags? the ./images tells emulationstation to look in the "parent" folder. (this folder is the parent folder because you already told ES to look for the rom in that folder with the <path> tag) In this case it means the rom folder of the game you are showing on screen from the list ..but now look in a sub directory called "images"

I can load ALL my arcade roms from the arcade folder. Any version of MAME, Daphne, or Final Burn Neo are all mixed in the arcade folder. So I have one arcade folder and the rest are consoles.

(But this is what works for me set it up the way it works for you!)

It worked perfectly, thanks :) I asked that because when my SD data (mostly my gamelists) got corrupted and I erased each single gamelist to regenerate them the results got even worse hiding more games and erasing the default scraped data from the RetroPie collection

Oh, nevermind.

A fresh install of UXMLS seems to have solved the problem :-)