Wait until it’s back up, or you can add them yourself by manually editing the xml file. I’ve had to do that for a few games where for whatever reason the scraper won’t pick up the game from thegamesdb. Mobygames.com is a good alternate source that I use for images and descriptions. If you have tons of games to scrape though I would just wait for thegamesdb to be up otherwise it will take forever.

Hopefully it’s back soon. This outage has been longer than any previous ones that I can remember.

Edit: Likely won’t be for awhile according to this latest update: https://www.facebook.com/thegamesdb/posts/1058742734182457

/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation

Then you’ll see a ‘downloaded_images’ folder and a ‘gamelists’ folder. Within each will be a folder for each system.

If you use https://github.com/sselph/scraper you can pass skip_check and use_ovgdb or similar on the commandline. Worked for me, see its help output.

I don’t see a downloaded_images folder, just gamelists. Inside gamelists, I go to mame-advmame, and open gamelist.xml. It was empty, just had </gameList>. So I opened up mame-mame4all even though I don’t use it anymore. There is path, name, playcount, and lastplayed. I don’t see any place for image though. Any help appreciated thanks!

thegamesdb is back up, btw.

Press select on the game and scroll down to edit metadata. It lets you do it for individual games. If that doesn’t work, make a manual entry in the proper folder, as referenced above.

Thanks for your reply. I’m not saying i don’t know how to use/scrap metadata, i’m saying that the F-zero spelling did not work properly with the scraper: FZERO, F ZERO, F-ZERO spelling didn’t match anything.

I will give a try, thanks for the hint. ;)