Selph Scraper scrapes unknown ROMs as a PSP game called ".hack//Link" -- even for other systems.

BrainSlugs83

So, I just ran the Selph Scraper over night against my entire rom collection and half of my games (NES, SNES, etc.) are showing up as ".HACK-LINK" in the readable name, and showing box art for a game called ".hack//Link" for the PSP.

Like, that's not even the right system... let alone, the games are named pretty well, stuff like "Lethal Weapon.zip".

I'm running version 4.3 of retropie, with the the scraper built from sources last night (2/7/18) -- with the following options:

Thumbnails Only: Disabled
Arcade Source: ArcadeItalia
Console Source: ScreenScraper
ROM Names: theGamesDB
Gamelist: Overwrite
Use rom folder: Enabled
Download Vidoes: Enabled
Download Marquees: Disabled
Max: 400x400

mitu

@brainslugs83 it's a known issue (https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16059/sselph-scrapper-getting-strange-results/15?page=1) and it has been reported to the scraper's github project. It seem to be caused by some changes in the screenscraper site, so you could use another site as a source for Console games art.

Alturis

@mitu, @BrainSlugs83 all of my tests with ScreenScraper have been consistent. It is always a Mario related title that does this. Which seems odd to me. I don't have an enormous collection of console roms but the 100% consistency with this stood out to me.

muldjord

I can confirm that this is a screenscraper issue and not a sselph's scraper issue. My own scraper does this aswell. I've simply coded a check for the hack link results and filter them out. I hope they get it fixed soon, as screenscraper is one of the best rom resources around.

Clyde

@brainslugs83 said in Selph Scraper scrapes unknown ROMs as a PSP game called ".hack//Link" -- even for other systems.:

I'm running version 4.3 of retropie, with the the scraper built from sources last night (2/7/18)

If the issue remains, did you update the scraper recently? Because @sselph made some fixes for this problem six days ago.