sselph scraper error on every mame4all rom

[ohmycommodore]

Hi folks,

Took another step in exploring today and dove into the sselph scraper, using it from the command line according to the posted instructions. It went just fine, returning decent results across several emulators.

I then realized it only had 3 images for mame4all... I believe those were existing images from me having a quick play with the built-in scraper -before- moving on to installing and trying out sselph.

After a bit of research into "starting over" on that particular emulator, I deleted those 3 images from /configs/all/emulationstation/downloaded_images/mame-mame4all/. I also removed the gamelist.xml file from /configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/mame-mame4all/.

However... I get this error on each and every rom when scraping mame4all:
error processing /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame4all/(gamename).zip: hash not found

My first attempt at a fix was of course clearing the above two locations again, this time also removing all my mame4all roms from my pi, rebooting, adding the roms back, and trying the scraper again. No luck – same error on each and every rom.

Does anyone have any insight? Did I miss something? Is there another way to "de-scrape" this particular emulator and scrape again? I'm not too advanced with all this yet, but learning by mistake usually sticks :)

I'm on the very latest retropie, scraper and retropie-setup on my pi 3. I'm also on the latest Mac OS, working with my pi in the Finder as a "connected server".

thanks :)

[ohmycommodore]

@ohmycommodore Time to answer my own post again haha! Let me guess... http://mamedb.com/ is the source, and it is down. Yep, it is down.

Oh well, if anyone can chime in and let me know that my "starting over" method mentioned above was correct, I can at least knocked that bit of learning off my list :)

[ohmycommodore]

My morning shower thought for tomorrow will most certainly be "I wonder then, how did I get those initial 3 images in the first place?"