SSH into EmulationStation?
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@naddel81 you might need to go into EmulationStation and press the Select button when Brutal Mario is highlighted and delete the current metadata for that game and then restart to make sure it remember the deletion. If so, then run your scraper on it again.
Also if that doesn't work, I'd still recommend downloading different ROMs from a different site if you can (including the Sonic 2 and MM4) to make sure you didn't get some weird variant of those games.
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will try that. thanks for the advice!
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Look inside the gamelist for the game id. Most likely that data is coming from OVGDB, as there isn't a "Brutal Mario" in SS.
http://www.screenscraper.fr/gamesinfos.php?plateforme=4&alpha=B&numpage=3 -
last scrape I did was using this command here: "scraper -use_gdb=false -use_ss=true"
I thought that would scrape all the games using another source?
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are the games not scraped by their name when I scrape them manually and edit metadata?
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There are 3 sources and currwntly the hierarchy is:
TGDB > SS > OVGDB
You can look into the gamelist and see from which source the data has been retrieved.
Can you look into that, please? -
here is my gamelist (SNES) and I cannot find anything unusual.
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I can see clearly that the info isn't from SS... Compare your first entry for Aladdin with:
http://screenscraper.fr/gameinfos.php?gameid=2170 -
but what did "scraper -use_gdb=false -use_ss=true" do then?
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I don't know. I use the software from my pc, not from the rpi.
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how do you update your Retropie using a PC scraper?
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I scrape entirely from my pc, don't use a Raspberry Pi for that.
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and how does it work on your rpi? do you copy the data to the retropie after scraping?
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Exactly!
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so you overwrite the "downloaded images" folder and thats it`?
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It appears to me as if you wouldn't know how the gamelists work. You have your downloaded images wherever you want and your gamelist.xml. Every entry on your gamelist corresponds to one single rom. There, you have the game pointing to one specific image. Overwriting your image folder doesn't mean that your gamelist is pointing to those images nor that you have images that aren't used.
If you want to know how I scrape my roms with sselph's scraper on my pc, take a look here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4915/batch-scrape-your-roms-on-your-pc-using-sselph-s-scraper -
thanks for the very helpful link! so after scraping my on PC the gamelist is automatically changed? I just point the scraper to \retropie\emulationstation (or where my roms are on the pi)?
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Come on, all the info is on the respective link. You scrape on your pc having your roms on your pc and then transfer your image-folders and gamelists to the respective folders. You must stop ES before copying the gamelists though. I haven't tried to scrape over the network as my interest was to scrape everything fast, and the Raspberry Pi is limited on resources.
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thanks! wil try at the weekend and report back. good night :)
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OK, It worked on PC using the batch you linked. thanks so much.
unfortunately there are still a few roms that were found using thegamesDB, but no using the new screenscraper.fr
is it possible to combine both? Or can I scrape only the missing ones using thegameDB?
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