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    Scraping Help Needed

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      Gumdoc
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      Butchered my scaping and looking for some help...

      I used Skraper.net to scrape all my ROMs, worked great but got hung up on GB and N64 ROMs. When I exited out from those two, I found that no images were associated with the games. I ran the built-in Retropie scraper, it downloaded all the images (static box, not videos, but I can live with that). But, after a reboot, images for those systems were lost. Installed Skyscraper and ran it, rebooted, no images saved. I had checked the enable videos section but there's nothing in the opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/downloaded_media/n64/videos folder.

      Is there a way to start from scratch for just those systems? Not sure what files I need to delete to basically start over with those two systems.

      Thanks for any help.

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        truglodite
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        WRT skyscraper, did you hit 'generate gameslist.xml' before rebooting. If not, you may still have all your scraped files cached on your pi, just waiting for a new gameslist.xml before they work.

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          Gumdoc
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          Yes, I did, that part actually took longer than the scraping, I think Skyscraper saw that the videos were already there, and just rebuilt the .xml file, but as I said, as soon as I reboot, the images for those 2 systems disappear. I can rescrape with the built-in scraper and get boxart...but those vanish on reboot.

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            mitu Global Moderator
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            Are the files scraped present on disc ? Are you exiting EmulationStation cleanly, from the menu ?

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              Gumdoc @mitu
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              @mitu Do you mean the ROMs? Yes, they are all there. I've rebooted from ES as well as powering off and on.

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @Gumdoc
                last edited by

                @Gumdoc said in Scraping Help Needed:

                Do you mean the ROMs?

                No, I mean the images scraped - are they still present after you reboot ? Is the description of the game saved ?

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                  Gumdoc @mitu
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                  @mitu Oh, sorry. Yes, the list of games is still there, just no associated images/videos.

                  So...go figure...decided to re-scrape those 2 game sets with Skraper...and, bingo, it worked, all images and videos are there, restarted and rebooted just to confirm. Not sure what Skraper does, almost like it made a proprietary setup, but either way, it's working so I guess I should be happy :-)

                  Thanks for your help!!

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