Versatile C++ game scraper: Skyscraper

muldjord

@AlCzervik Then please make sure you didn't misspell anything in the ln command. It should absolutely work if it's linked to /usr/local/bin/Skyscraper correctly.

EDIT: So you see the link in /usr/local/bin? And it's not red?

EDIT2: Try ls -lh /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper. That will tell you if the file exists where I think retropie installed it.

AlCzervik

@muldjord No, what I'm saying is I navigated directly to /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/ and I still couldn't run Skyscraper from within that directory. Sorry, just seeing your other edits.

muldjord

@AlCzervik Ah, that's normal. If you want to run a local file you have to to ./Skyscraper -p genesis -s screenscraper --refresh when within the folder. The . means "this folder". Otherwise it will try and run it from either /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.

mitu

@AlCzervik Since the /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper is not in your $PATH, you can either running by calling the full path

/opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper

or, if you changed directory to the installation folder:

cd /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/
./Skyscraper

Note that Linux commands are case-sensitive, so skyscraper is not the same as Skyscraper.

muldjord

@mitu Yeah, but the ln command should work, which apparently it didn't.

mitu

@muldjord Not quite:

When I run the command again it says that it failed to create a symbolic link because the file exists

The link was created, I bet the casing is wrong.

muldjord

@mitu Could be yeah

AlCzervik

@muldjord Okay, sorry. Very rusty at command line. Shame on me. I ran 'nes' command line from the installation folder, it ran, but found nothing for every one of my nes games. Tried it again for Genesis, nothing found.

muldjord

@AlCzervik Nothing found, or "Retrying request..."?

AlCzervik

@muldjord Nothing found. I'll double check on the retrying request.

muldjord

@AlCzervik Can you do a screenshot? Including the command-line you typed to run it.

AlCzervik

@muldjord Will do. Give me a minute. And seriously, thanks again for your help

AlCzervik

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AlCzervik

@muldjord Here you go:

muldjord

@AlCzervik Not for thegamesdb. We know that works. We're only interested in screenscraper.

EDIT: Actually, now that I think about it. TheGamesDb doesn't work, which it should.

AlCzervik

@muldjord Sorry. Here you go:

muldjord

@AlCzervik Thanks... Ok, so TheGamesDB doesn't work and ScreenScraper doesn't work, but you can telnet to it without issue. I'm about to throw my hands in the air and give up. I have absolutely no idea why it won't work on your machine. I'm dumbfounded by this.

muldjord

@AlCzervik My best (and only) suggestion at this point is to simply reinstall the machine to see if that fixes it. That would at least conclude whether it's something related to the installation.

AlCzervik

@muldjord Yeah, but the ArcadeDB does! Which was awesome. Anyway, don't feel you have to keep helping me. I truly appreciate the troubleshooting today. I'm not sure where to go either but I love a good non-sensical problem so thanks for going down the rabbit hole with me!

muldjord

@AlCzervik You're welcome... I have to admit it frustrates the hell out of me that we can't get to the bottom of this. Especially if this is somehow a Skyscraper issue. But I guess I'll have to file this under "unsolved". Please let me know if you do end up getting it to work.