works like a charm thanks

alright, that did the trick. thank you sselph, i appreciate your help.

There is a command line flag but it isn't exposed in the RetroPie-setup script -mame_img and -console_img These accept an ordered list of image preferences which RetroPie-setup sets to -mame_img="t,m,s" and -console_img="b" So the order is Title, Marquee, Snap for mame. You can exit EmulationStation and run this from the command line with something like this but cd to the rom folder you want to scrape.

cd ~/RetroPie/roms/mame /opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -mame -mame_img="s,t,m"

More detail about all the flags is at

/opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -h

@bifelix89
Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Asking for help without even trying to look this up or understanding what this means, results in more work for others, even if some awesome members already put work into a clear explanation, is bad (I guess)... Looking your "problem" up in the docuentations/wikis/github pages (or even on google) would have given you the right answer...

However:
This isn't an error... It just means that the scraper could not found the name of the rom (or in this case the hash of it) in the metadata/image database! This basicly means that there is no metadata/image for this game.
You might be able to "solve" this by using another database

@mediamogul brilliant, i will give it a try, thanks,

Thanks @sselph - it took a while, but I added a feature request over on Github:
https://github.com/sselph/scraper/issues/167

@steptoe there are flags to specify whether to overwrite or only scrape missing.

@paradadf Read your reply too late, haha! I found a cover pack and matched the filenames to the images the scraper downloaded. Didn't take that long. Now the Neo Geo covers look far better than the rest of the game systems... :)

@sselph Thanks!

@mike27277 said in Scraper Issues:

trying to mark as solved cant find the button

The options are located at the bottom right of your first post in a pull-down menu labeled 'Topic Tools'.

My morning shower thought for tomorrow will most certainly be "I wonder then, how did I get those initial 3 images in the first place?"

@Octo_R0ck
Ty dude !
Just delete temp files !

@paradadf Thanks for the heads up that worked great and was very easy to use.

Alright! Thanks again for your help! :)

@Lyle_JP
But the MAME files have a well defined and unique filename, as far as I know. So hashing would not be needed. You could say the filename itself is the hash.

@BuZz
Oh, thanks for the info!

Seems like this is just a bad time for scraping MAME. I am hoping that it is getting better soon! Summoning Sselph for the rescue! ;)

I tried to scrape my library yesterday and got an error 429 - "Too Many Request Responses".

I assume there's something wrong with the servers so it's not working as it should. I tried now and got the same results. Will wait until tomorrow and give it another go.

@RomiBraman the release date should be there. Otherwise you are more than welcome to contribute to the database (www.screenscraper.fr)!

There are many tricks with the UXS to change what media you get. Soon the v2 will be released with huge improvements (so I heard), and making those tricks easier to use.