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    Selph Scraper with NEOGEO, game history descriptions ? marks all through it [SOLVED]

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    • FlightRiskF
      FlightRisk
      last edited by FlightRisk

      I scraped the NEOGEO roms and have very long rom names. I think I should have deleted another gameslist.xml file somewhere, but couldn't find it. Now, the videos don't work and the game instructions/history window has question marks all over the place as if that is in place of periods or paragraph marks. Has this happened to you?

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Could be some characters not covered by the fontset used by ES or bad encoding for the chars. Do you have an example for a game you scraped that shows this behavior ?

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        • FlightRiskF
          FlightRisk
          last edited by

          Looks like the locations where the Selph scraper gets data is incompatible with Emulation Station. In particular progettoemma has video snaps recorded with a codec that almost no device supports. They won't display video in OMX or a PC running windows 10 unless you search around and add a codec pack that happens to have predictive 4:4:4 (I used the free K-Lite 1400 Full). And the text descriptions input in to the gameslist.xml file has tab characters or something embedded in then. I used Notepad++ and made all special characters visible and didn't see anything other than the offending lines indented and showed tab lines. I had to delete them all. Also, the descriptions are rife with escape codes for carriage returns and line feeds ( &#xA) . I just got rid of all special characters and other than the ones for quotes or apostrophes and then manually adjusted each paragraph by hitting enter twice to add my own line feeds where I wanted a new paragraph and cleaned it all up. I then used Handbrake to batch re-encode all of the scraped snaps to the "normal" or "High Profile" preset and turning down quality to 25 to make the files a little smaller (on par with the original sizes).

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