Gamelists and scrapers

[gmkeros]

I have been using the standard scraper from the menu as well as Steven Selph's scraper to get videos for games. This works in some cases, and in some it doesn't. My arcade games in particular always seem to lose the videos when I use the standard scraper, but when using Selph's scraper I end up with a lot of weird artifacts and strange entries.

So I tried to edit the gamelist myself, and came across another problem: there are multiple gamelist.xml files for the systems in two locations I know off

• the ROM folder itself

• /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists

Now the weird thing is that I have checked both to see which one is actually used to set the video for games, and noticed that one particular game has no video tag in either gamelist.xml, but it does show a video when I see the entry within EmulationStation.
Is there a third location for gamelists that I am not aware of? What might I be doing wrong here?

In fact, what would be the best way to ensure that I get both videos and correct information into my setup?

[mitu]

EmulationStation will use the gamelist.xml ROMs folder, if found, otherwise it looks in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/<system>. The 2 files are not combined, just one of them is used, in that order.

If you enabled the 'Use Local Art' option in EmulationStation's settings, it will try find a video matching the game by looking under roms/<system>/media/<ROM_NAME>-video.mp4, so even if there's no video declared in gamelist.xml, it might still find a video associated with it.

In fact, what would be the best way to ensure that I get both videos and correct information into my setup?

Don't mix the scrapers if you want video - the internal scraper doesn't support videos so it might overwrite the video tags if you re-scrape with it. Use the external scraper and see which videos have issues - some arcade videos are incompatible with RPI's hardware video codecs and might not play correctly.