@mitu Oh ok then. Thank you

@mitu

I have read it but missed that. I'm going to back and read it again.

Thanks for the info!

Here's a simple artwork.xml that will get the cover of the game and save it in the image for the gamelist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <artwork> <output type="screenshot" width="640" height="480"> <layer resource="cover" > </layer> </output> </artwork>

It should be fixed now, just need to update the RetroPie-Setup script to get the fixed version.

@raulitob You need to learn how folders and paths work in Linux. And also read carefully forum posts.
In Linux, ~ has a special meaning - it's the home folder of the logged on user and its path is /home/<username>. So you're 2nd listing shows the contents of the ~/RetroPie/roms folder (=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms) and NOT the /RetroPie/roms folder.
Please re-read by previous post on configuring the cache folder in Skyscraper's config.ini - which path did I specify ?

[Change scraping Source] Is there a similar option in Skyskraper? I have like 10% of missing images/game data and I'd like to leave my arcade machine "finished".

Yes, it has a similar option in the GUI.

Found it, thanks

[How to manually add metadata for a game] Get the artwork manually and copy it on the system, then edit the gamelist.xml file where Emulationstation gets its information.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

is it possible to just download a screenshot and not have the game box in the bottom left corner? I disabled video already.

Yes, but you'll have to modify the artwork.xml and leave the screenshot only as the final composition result.

can I use it to rerun and just download artwork? It pulled metadata for most everything but left a lot of the artwork blank.

Yes, you can choose a different scraping source and then re-run the scraping to get new artwork, maybe it will be found in another source.

a lot of the ROMs ended up with (U) and SMD in the names. Any way to disable that?

Do you have an example ? You can choose to use the filename as the name entry in the list, ignoring the name returned from the scraping source or the option to remove brackets from the gamelist names.

@mitu i read it but was unsure as i really dont want to scrape each emulator seperately as per ( Skyscraper -p snes -s screenscraper) suggests. also i was wondering if that same thing could be done from the graphical interface. If not what command syntax would i use to scrape all roms/emulators?

Originally i think i used the built in scraper from emulationstation and it scraped almost all of them but this time it did barely any.

@mitu
Well I tried running sudo ./RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.shand I tried to scrape using all of the websites but it kept showing data not found. I tried every single website and it kept saying data not found. Nothing was scraped even after I tried twice.

I still don't understand whats wrong. It keeps failing no matter what.

Same error over here. Skyscraper 2.9.5. With igdb API-Key.

Adding --verbosity 3 adds no extra details.

Just to make sure your API-key is right, try:

curl 'https://api-endpoint.igdb.com/games' -H 'user-key: <your_key_here>' --> should return an authentication failure AND

curl 'https://api-v3.igdb.com/games' -H 'user-key: <your_key_here>' --> should give you a JSON formatted array of ten records.

So the URL changed from api-endpoint.igdb.com to api-v3.igdb.com.

By the time I will file a PR at Github. In the meantime you can help yourself:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh skyscraper depends sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh skyscraper sources

Do edits in ~/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/skyscraper/src/igdb.cpp: The values of the variables baseUrl and searchUrlPre should reflect the new URL.

Then:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh skyscraper get_opts sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh skyscraper get_bins sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh skyscraper build sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh skyscraper install

Clean (optional):

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh skyscraper clean

Run Skyscraper again as in your original post. It should work then.

HTH

I tried scraping for the ROMs you mentioned and I had no problems. For reference, here are the ROM names and their MD5 checksum:

Super Mario Bros. (World).zip (md5 - 2961ae52ee8dee9a9fbc7680ced1f741) Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA).zip (md5 - 200edb85a698ccf5e11a0dcee0e0e771) Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA).zip (md5 - 1961b6290a81c4665109951bbeb9bd55)

@Hyperlord You're supposed to run skyscraper with an online scraping source to get any data. Your command line doesn't show that. So you should run it like

Syscraper -p nes -s screenscraper --videos

If you don't specify a scraping source (-s), then it will query the LocalDB, which might not have any videos scraped.

Thank you. That was it. I forgot it :-D

I was able to trick Skyscraper into recognizing there are subdirectories in my \RETROPIE\roms\mame-libretro folder by including at least one ROM file in the base emulator ROM folder.

Maybe this will work with your issue.

@mitu - Ah ok, sorry for that false alarm and I appreciate the response guys. I'll run through it again later and post if it's a specific ROM or some pattern I see.

I skipped through it :-) Didn't fully understand it, to be honest.

@reddragoonmx What version of Skyscraper are you using ? This has been fixed quite a few moons ago.

Did you quit out of Emulationstation with F4 before doing the scraping?