@mitu

Ah, I see, maybe one for the future.
Thanks for the reply anyway.

I discovered a little workaround if anyone is interested. It works for me because I don’t use video clips on my game menus.
Simply put the video you want to act as screensaver in a folder of your choice, and link it to a game using the metadata options. Of course that video will be displayed when you scroll over the game, but it will also be picked up by the random video screensaver.

Hi!!! I have de same issue. But in all the roms.
(sorry my english, i am spanish)

I have found this thread by search.
Apparently i have a similar issue but on my case i have put my current username and password to the right section but when try to launch skyscraper it's not be usage the corrent 20.000 limit but it's ever use "only" 10.000 so the login it's not work.

It's someone have a similar issue ?

EDIT
Sorry for editing this reply.. previously i have quoted a old reply.
Now my reply it's general :)

@Clyde thanks.

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

@showstopper Yes, you can scrape a single file by adding it to the end of the command-line. And you can set a temporary region with with the --region option. Check the region documentation. Check it all here: https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper/tree/master/docs

Remember to regenerate the game list afterewards and be aware that not all sources have regional support.

Totally understood.
Thank you very much for your help, I really appreciate it a lot.

Go to launchbox or game faq and see if the game has an alternate title. I know I had issues and it couldn't find Donkey Kong Country 2 and 3 until I put the full title as the name. Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Country 3 - Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! Twisted Metal III won't scrape, but Twisted Metal 3 will... it doesn't take much to throw off the scraper.

@icvaalmall84 It's not down, https://www.screenscraper.fr works fine.

@thelostsoul said in screenscraper.fr site not available anymore?:

Does it have any impact on the scraper in RetroPie or any other scraper?

Well, it did - at least for the internal ES scraper. For other scrapers, I don't think so, otherwise I image it would have been reported.

@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.

karnovr-image.png

@mitu Thank you, that worked. You are brilliant. I must have missed that option when going over Skyscraper's documentation.

Thanks for this quick reply.

This appears to be working for the artwork.

If installed through RetroPie, first create symbolic link: sudo ln -s /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper /usr/local/bin/Skyscraper

Command line example for SNES in the USA region with use with EmulationStation: Skyscraper -p snes -s screenscraper -u username:password --unattend --nohints --region us

Command line options

/retropie/configs/all/skyscraper/config.ini

Config.ini options

Config.ini region options

EDIT: After the artwork is downloaded i was able to generate gamelist.xml.

Yes. This is simply about waiting for the server to not be overloaded if not registered user. I've seen the 'V' now as well as messaging about not being a registered user. Evenings are working best in my particular time zone.

@colombia20102018 Well, I never told you to overwrite anything, but to add said lines to the end of the config file. A video wouldn't help much more if you don't follow it exactly either, and you don't have to know anything about scripts just to add two lines at their end (besides that the config file isn't a script anyway).

Follow instructions exactly as given, lest you stand in your own way on the path to success.

This only as a friendly word of advice for the future – imagine the sentence in bold print shouted in an overacting, dramatic voice like in bad movies. 😉

I'm glad that it's working for you now. Have fun with RetroPie!

@mitu Yeah I tried the F keys, regular number keys (the bottom screen displays some actions for me with numbers in front, not F-numbers), other stuff... I'm probably just doing something wrong. I'll take a look this weekend to see if I can figure out what the problem is but I might go the lazier route and just install samba share.

@mitu said in Skyscraper Config.ini help (Credentials for Screenscraper):

@mitu you were right! I didn't realize :o
Many thanks!