@Crush That is also an option, but sometimes I'd rather get everything scraped on a separate hard drive. Just makes me feel more secure in various ways. I'm probably just silly.

@zombie_ryushu said in Issues with local Screenshots and Migration:

AARM and Skraper appear to be Windows Specific Applications

Yes, but that doesn't mean they can't run on Linux. For Linux, you can try Skyscraper, has a lot more flexibility than the built-in EmulationStation scraper.

For example I only want the cover art as my image. Not a 3D-rendered box, not the composite screenshot with box and wheel art, just the flat 2D cover art. So I point my config.ini at a custom artwork-cover.xml and that looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <artwork> <output type="screenshot" resource="cover"/> <output type="marquee" resource="wheel"/> </artwork>

Note, the output uses type="screenshot" resource="cover". This still puts the image in the "screenshots" folder; that's just how it works. Whatever you define as "screenshot," that's what gets put in the gamelist <image> tag. (Again, this for ES, I don't know how it might be different for Pegasus FE.) But I use the "cover" resource and so the image that appears in my gamelist is a picture of the cover, not a screenshot, even though it's called "screenshot."

If you want raw cover, screenshot, wheel and marquee outputs, use artwork.xml.example2:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- This example simply exports the raw unedited versions of each artwork type coming directly from the scraping source --> <artwork> <output type="cover"/> <output type="screenshot"/> <output type="wheel"/> <output type="marquee"/> </artwork>

The default artwork.xml only outputs two images, but one of them has many layers, and between them it uses three of the four resources (the "marquee" resource is not used. Note that even in the output node called "marquee," it uses the "wheel" resource instead):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- This is the default artwork.xml provided by Skyscraper. More examples can be found in '~/.skyscraper'. Be sure to check the full artwork documentation here: https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper/blob/master/docs/ARTWORK.md --> <artwork> <output type="screenshot" width="640" height="480"> <layer resource="screenshot" x="20" width="520" height="390" align="center" valign="middle"> <rounded radius="10"/> <stroke width="5"/> </layer> <layer resource="cover" height="250" x="0" y="-10" valign="bottom"> <gamebox side="wheel" rotate="90"/> <shadow distance="5" softness="5" opacity="70"/> </layer> <layer resource="wheel" width="250" x="-10" align="right"> <shadow distance="5" softness="5" opacity="70"/> </layer> </output> <output type="marquee" resource="wheel"/> </artwork>

@tpr glad you like it. for basic stuff it was really good.

I just wanted to answer here and ask for more information, then I noticed that you already gave it in your second thread. Please don't open multiple threads about one topic.

TheGamesDB site has a monthly quota for requests - I think 5000 (?). If you scraped a lot of games, then you probably went over that quota and your requests are ignored.
The scraper works fine - so there's not a issue with the site or EmulationStation.

It has been updated, but the modification is only on the dev branch.

@Clyde thanks.

@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!

@mitu oh wow, never thought about something like that!
Thank Mitu, i will have patience next time! 😊

@Dwarfboysim I only had problems when trying to scrape PSX media. After scouring the internet i found this scraper to be the best.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/19588/skyscraper-now-officially-part-of-retropie-please-test

It will get you Cover art, disk art and video previews.

Just make sure to read the tut carefully. It can be installed via the rasp-setup but it can only be ran once emulation station has been aborted/quit.

You can either SSH/Use keyboard on pie to run it.

@retrocake It happens from time to time, because thegamesdb.net is too busy and no response is received by the scraper. You can try scraping at another time or use the alternate scraper - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/

@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.

Yup, here is their last post about the maintenance:
https://www.facebook.com/thegamesdb/posts/1544305965626129

@buzz It's back up and running at normal speeds, it was down for a couple days. I know no one here can do anything about it, but I was more asking to get confirmation if it was only me experiencing the issue or not. Thank you nonetheless.

FYI
Other MIX Template is downloadable from the menu configuration.
You can create you own MIX template ( https://github.com/Universal-Rom-Tools/Universal-XML-Scraper/wiki/[TUTO]-Making-a-MIX-Template) And if you want PR them to the github repository ;)