I forgot to mention that before scraping all roms worked fine.

@retroprogrammer XD thanks. It is actually pretty fast. So ill keep trying things. Thanks tho!

@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?

@andrewh said in unable to install Scraper due to ~ key:

Alternately, you can do it in two steps.

the original command should be as follows (capitalization of folder names is important) ;

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

It tells the system to run the retropie_setup.sh script found in the RetroPie-Setup subdirectory of the user's home directory (the user being the 'pi' account you logged in with). And this command can be run successfully no matter where in the filesystem you happen to have navigated to.

So, instead, you can do it in two steps as follows;

cd sudo ./RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

The first line will take you to the home directory for the user you're logged in as.
The second line runs the script found in the subdirectory of the current directory (which will be the home directory, since that's where you moved to with the first command).

Just gave it a try and it’s worked perfectly, ive set the game list for videos and the majority have them but some are just still images (may of been where I done manual scraping)
Thanks for the help guys I would of never sorted that other wise 😀😀😀

I went through this just last night. I "remade" all my cue files (made blank zero byte files and just named them "gamename.cue"). However the scraper scraped the same game over and over again and the game was for the sega megadrive not the psx sooooo shrugs

You can add the videos manually yes. Place them into your /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/images and then re-scrape them. Two things though..

your videos need to be renamed so they have -video.mp4 on the end (i.e. Tekken (USA)-video.mp4) I would strongly suggest you use a batch re-namer to do so! (for windows use Bulk Renemer or for linux use Pyrenamer it is in the repos))

The BIG problem is the two scrapers don't play nice with each other. The "built in scraper for ES will delete the video tags and Steven's scraper may not pick up the correct info due ti the database (I guess).

So what happens is you don't get boxart or info and the wrong vid but everything is tagged...then you go trough and redo them and you get boxart and info but no tags. I have not tried to scrape the videos locally from the folder after using the built ES scraper yet. It might not erase anything and add the video tags.

So you want to do the built in ES scraper first and then use Steven's scraper to scrape from your folder after you have renamed all your videos. I can try that later and see it it works..but again you will need files that at least end in the correct extension. I had I batch/script that would do just that..but that was a lifetime ago when i was using MameWah..I'll see if I can dig it up...but don't hold your breath ;)

Edit: Ok so here is what i did..and it worked..okay...

I scraped all my pbp files with the built in scraper then I used Steven's scraper scraping just the cue files and append that to my list and it scraped some of my videos. So I still had to hand edit my list..so might be the only why do to it is by hand..

Here is an Idea..scrape just the cue files (making sure thy have the correct name and all that) with the built in first...then scrape with Steven's scraper appending the information to the list (that way your video tags are added) last go and do a find and replace on the gamelist.xml and search for .cue< replace with .pbp<
(yes add the less-than sign..just to make it harder to replace something else.)
The only catch with that is your pbp will have to match your .cue file names exactly it's an idea anyway.

EDIT: You can batch rename your .pbp to .cue then scrape..then rename them back from .cue to .pbp

@elshiftos spectrum scraping works just fine with screenscraper. I've uploaded a ton of box scans but nowhere near a complete set. It is picky with the filenames though so maybe check on the website that you're romnames are correctly named?

Sorry for necromancing this post. But I just noticed the "-convert_videos" flag when scraping from the command line. Is this enough to fix the YUV 4:4:4 issue? It invokes the handbrake CLI.

@sselph cooool. It's well passed my bed time, so I'll check it out tomorrow (or whenever you get around to putting the release out. No rush).

@SonPluck The images won't be re-downloaded unless you delete them. There is an option to overwrite or append to the gamelist. Append will preserve the existing data including the last played and number of times played and only add in new games.

@paradadf Ah will try that out! Thanks :)

@BuZz said in Steven Selph's Scraper & Ubuntu 16.04 LTS x86 Flavor issue:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

@BuZz Wow what a quick answer! Thanks man :)