SkyScraper: RetroPie-Setup Script Cant Find Systems

[StonedEdge]

Hi there. I've been playing around with Skyscraper (tried changing the config.ini file) to point it to my roms which is on my SD card at directory /media/retrolite/CM5Handheld/roms however when I run the script from RetroPie-Setup I only see two systems (arcade and mame-libretro).

Any idea why this would be the case and what I am doing wrong? I just created a symlink which fixed it in the end, but wondering why the changes arent being picked up by config.ini.

[main]
inputFolder="/media/retrolite/CM5Handheld/roms"

Cheers.

[mitu]

The scraping dialog assumes a standard RetroPie installation, it's not looking in either the es_systems.cfg nor the Skyscraper .ini files.

[Lolonois]

The scriptmodule is thought as a "ease of use" / for default setups, if you want to unleash the full potential of Skyscraper use the command line.

Within the scriptmodule you can only alter the (output) gamelist (-g) folder and media folder (-o).

With Use ROM folder (Enabled) (see generate options in the menu) the gamelist location is
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/<platform> and /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/<platform>/media.

With Use ROM folder (Disabled) the gamelist location is
/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/<platform> and /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/<platform>/media.

The inputFolder is in any case picked up from the config.ini, however, the scriptmodule only uses $romdir which is currently taken from the default RetroPie value (which is /home/pi/RetroPie/roms). See _list_systems_skyscraper() in the scriptmodule skyscraper.sh.

TL;DR: Using a symlink as you did is the right way.