Can't scrape ZX Spectrum

[blargsnarf]

Hi guys,

I've been scraping my entire collection for the last couple days using the selph scraper - it's been bumpy but has worked fine for all my other consoles so far.

However, I can't scrape my zx spectrum files. I've tried a few things that all return varying results:

1. The first time it tried, it generated a new gameslist.xml like normal, but then it returned a bunch of garbage on the screen instead of the normal nicely formatted text:
   

2. If I remove the gamelist.xml, if I wipe it clean, or if I just leave "<?xml version="1.0"?> <gameList />" in it, then run the scraper, it just immediately returns a "games done scraping" message, when they aren't.

Help? I am pretty dang new to this stuff, but if it helps, I'm running a:
Raspberry Pi 3B
Running Selph's Scraper (updated)
Tried tinkering with all the settings, tried all combinations of Arcade/Console Sources
ROM Names (theGamesDB)
Gamelist (Append, but I've tried Overwrite and it's the same thing)
Use rom folder (enabled)
Download videos (Enabled)
DL Marquees (Disabled)

I'm sure it's some kinda problem with the gamelist.xml.. maybe? Or maybe the rom files? But I'm not sure what else to try.

Thanks!

Edit:
I should point out, like it says in the picture I uploaded, the first time it scraped it did scrape some of them, just not all of them, and now I can't get it to do anything - can't get it to scrape the ones it's missing, and like I said, if I remove/edit gamelist.xml it won't even re-scrape the ones it managed the first time.