Scraper needs to check the genesis category on thegamesdb not just megadrive

crossmr

As I'm currently building my own setup from a stock retropie image, what I noticed in regards to megadrive games is that some games, which totally have images on thegamesdb are showing up with no entries. On closer inspection it seems that it is because some of the games are registered on the site as genesis games and not under both systems. Would it be possible to have the megadrive part of the scraper scrape both categories for games rather than only megadrive?

mitu

That's a quirk in TheGameDB, MD and Genesis are separated platforms. Add a platforms.cfg file under \\retropie\configs\all with

megadrive_theme="megadrive"
megadrive_platform="genesis,megadrive"

and then try re-installing one of the Megadrive emulators (lr-picodrive, lr-genesis-plus-mx), restart EmulationStation and try re-scraping.

EDIT: corrected.

BuZz

@mitu That's ES xml not platform.cfg content - wrong paste ?

These are the lines that should be added to switch to genesis. I wasn't aware multiple platforms could be added though - or I've forgotten.

megadrive_theme="genesis"
megadrive_platform="genesis"

see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Mega-Drive-Genesis/ for more information.

mitu

@BuZz Oh, yes, you're right.

EDIT: this was reported way back here.

BuZz

@mitu Ah - then this should work I think (Can keep the theme at megadrive or whatever is preferred)

megadrive_theme="genesis"
megadrive_platform="megadrive,genesis"

[edit] I see you updated your post sorry.

crossmr

Thanks, i was unaware that you could add multiple systems in there, it still requires code work on the part of the user instead of out of the box functionality like scraping most other systems does. Since genesis (directory) seems to be set up as pointing to megadrive, maybe this should be included by default? In my case, I ended up changing megadrive to genesis and running the scrape again, but that's clunky.

mitu

We could make it the default, since ScreenScraper is the default scraper in EmulationStation it didn't have such a great impact. The change required some code changes in EmulationStation for ScreenScraper, so that's why it wasn't added after the issue was reported.