Skyscraper not scraping some systems

gordonfreemanjr

OK, here's the thing: GB library is now officially scrapped, so it works. Also, both, the cache and GB media files, are on the USB stick, so good on the double.

The problem is, the roms and media files are also at the same time on the Pi. I don't get it. I installed the usbrom service, created the retropie-mount folder, everything has copied over nicely. Then, I deleted all the files from the copied over rom folders and replaced them with new libraries. Put the stick back into Pi, it works, roms are there and the run.

Why is everything doubled? This was I'm barely conserving any space on the Pi...

mitu

@gordonfreemanjr said in Skyscraper not scraping some systems:

Why is everything doubled? This was I'm barely conserving any space on the Pi...

How are you checking that ?

gordonfreemanjr

Via the file manager while on the Emulation Station. Wait... unless going to RetroPie/roms/xxx actually sends me over to retropie-mount/roms/xxx on the USB stick, while connected?
Also, the Pi is 97% full, according to the loading screen.

mitu

@gordonfreemanjr said in Skyscraper not scraping some systems:

Via the file manager while on the Emulation Station. Wait... unless going to RetroPie/roms/xxx actually sends me over to retropie-mount/roms/xxx on the USB stick, while connected?

If you're looking at the ROM file share, then you'll see the files on the USB disc, not what's on the sdcard, since the ROM folder is not on the USB disc.

Also, the Pi is 97% full, according to the loading screen.

If the root partition (/dev/root) is the one at 97%, then that's the SD card space, you should check what's left there - did you delete the Skyscraper cache ? Make sure you haven't left the ROMs still there - you can stop EmulationStation, un-mount the USB stick and check again th ROMs folder for files.

gordonfreemanjr

So, if I disconnect the USB stick, start up the Pie and go to the file manager to discover, that any roms or skyscraper cache is still on the SD card, I can delete them freely?

gordonfreemanjr

@mitu You were right. It’s working.
Thank you!

One last question: if I’m done scraping with, say, ScreenScraper, and I have like 5% of the roms missing - if the “force cache refresh” option is OFF and I run another scraper on the same system, does it find only the missing roms without overwriting the existing cache? I find the description bit unclear.

mitu

@gordonfreemanjr said in Skyscraper not scraping some systems:

if the “force cache refresh” option is OFF and I run another scraper on the same system, does it find only the missing roms without overwriting the existing cache? I find the description bit unclear.

Foce refresh will re-process all entries. You don't need that to find things that are missing. Every scrape will add to the cache, but will not delete from it, so you can re-run the scraping for the same system and it will try to get the missing items.
If you're running from the command line, then you can scrape just the missing files, without going through the whole system.

gordonfreemanjr

So, if the scraping process for a platform is completed, and I'd like to use the collected media with the same rom set, but on another Pi (instead of scraping the same files all over again), is this OK to copy the cache folder onto the another USB stick, set correct cache location, set the cache folder as the local scraping source and run the Skyscraper again on the new Pi, but locally, importing from the cache folder?

mitu

Yes, it should work.

gordonfreemanjr

Shouldn't I be able to just generate the game lists? If Skyscraper generates them from the cache, and the cache is already gathered....

mitu

@gordonfreemanjr said in Skyscraper not scraping some systems:

Shouldn't I be able to just generate the game lists? If Skyscraper generates them from the cache, and the cache is already gathered....

It all depends on what ROMs the other system has - if there's a checksum mismatch, the ROM will be scraped again.

gordonfreemanjr

@mitu It's going to be exactly the same set copied over.